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Janet Babin
Marketplace Innovations Desk, North Carolina
Janet Babin is the Innovations reporter for Marketplace, based at the studios of North Carolina Public Radio-UNC in Chapel Hill and Durham.
Babin figured out she could be a journalist while studying French civilization, language and culture at the Sorbonne after college. She was rereading Janet Flanner's Paris Journal, 1944-1965. A few years later she started stringing for a suburban Philadelphia newspaper, The Times Herald. Then it was on to radio and television, and finally home to public radio.
Janet spent several years as a reporter and show host at member stations in rural Indiana and Cleveland. She's contributed to NPR shows and filled in as a staff reporter in Washington and for NPR West. Her toughest interview was with the Dalai Lama, for a Voice of America story broadcast in Tibet. Her work has won awards from Associated Press, the Radio Television News Directors Association, and the Federation for Community Broadcasters. She was also a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism from the UCLA Anderson School of Business.
Janet studied dance and business at Long Island University. She has a bachelor of science degree from LIU's School of Business Administration.
