Erika Beras
Erika Beras (she/her) is a reporter and host for NPR's Planet Money podcast.
Prior to joining the team in 2021 she spent four years as a reporter at Marketplace.
As a freelancer, she was a regular contributor to Scientific American podcasts and filed stories for NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Latino USA. She also contributed to PRI's The World, the BBC and Monocle 24 Radio and wrote stories for National Geographic and NewYorker.com.
Before that, she spent a decade as a staff reporter for NPR Member station WESA and at The Miami Herald.
Her reporting has taken her places as varied as The Democratic Republic of Congo, Switzerland and Erie, Pennsylvania.
She has been awarded grants, fellowships and awards from Radio Television Digital News Association, National Association of Science Writers, The International Center for Journalists, the International Women's Media Foundation, The Center for Health Reporting, The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Third Coast International Audio Festival and others.
Beras is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer and a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A native Spanish speaker, she grew up in New York City and lives in Pittsburgh.
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In an unlikely country, Uruguay, a particle physicist figured out how to convert energy grids to renewable energy. We tell the story of how he did it.
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New economic research has found that schools are much more likely to call a mom than a dad when they need to reach a parent.
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How do artists get paid for a song in the age of streaming? Our Planet Money podcast team decided to become a record label and release a song to find out.
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NPR's Planet Money recently got ahold of a 47-year-old song about inflation that has never been released. They decided to start a record label to try to get the song out into the world.
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The Planet Money team got a cassette tape in the mail with a 47-year-old song about a timely topic: inflation.
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Almost 50 years ago, a band made an incredible song about Inflation. Then the song was lost to the dustbin of history. Now, Planet Money is on a mission to make this record a hit. -
Since 2005, 10 communities in the Atlanta area have declared their own cityhood. Some residents of Buckhead, the richest and whitest part of Atlanta, have been pushing to become a separate city.
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The more than 5,000 sanctions against Russia are tanking the ruble and hurting everyday Russians. There are worries that a recession is looming.
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We go behind the scenes of a "dark store" to see what it takes to get groceries delivered in minutes.
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The Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are the point of entry for more than a third of the goods imported into the U.S. Since they're backed up, smaller ports are helping relieve some of the congestion.
