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Dan Grech
Americas Desk, Miami
Dan Grech is Marketplace’s first Americas reporter, covering Latin American business and the Hispanic economy in the United States from WLRN Studios in downtown Miami.
Grech is a convert from print journalism. He started freelancing for various publications while a student at Princeton University, after he realized he preferred reporting to washing dishes as a way to earn textbook money. He interned at The Boston Globe and The Washington Post before landing a gig at the Miami Herald in 2000. In his first month on the job, he helped report on the return of Elián González to Cuba, coverage that later was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Talk about timing. He also contributed to a staff-written book on the contested 2000 presidential election.
In 2003, Grech traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on a Fulbright fellowship and an Inter American Press Association scholarship. There he earned a Masters degree in Spanish-language journalism and covered Argentina for The Miami Herald.
All along, Grech was an avid public radio listener. Before leaving for Argentina, he bought a minidisk recorder and a microphone and experimented with it in his free time. His first piece was on tango. It was an inauspicious start: his editor said his voicing sounded like the story was about a funeral.
Things have looked up since Grech joined Marketplace in 2004. He has traveled to six countries, filed on more than a dozen presidential elections and led Marketplace’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
When Grech isn’t working for Marketplace, he performs in an improv comedy troupe (Chasing Tales), teaches radio at the Florida Center for Literary Arts and writes fiction and essays.
