Lizzie O'Leary is an American journalist. She has worked with CNN, NPR, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo News, ABC and the BBC. She holds degrees from

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and

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

. She was the host of Marketplace Weekend until the end of its run in mid 2018. She currently hosts the weekly ''What Next: TBD'' podcast for

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Education

O'Leary graduated

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from Williams College with degrees in English and Art History. She went on to graduate from the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 2003.

Career

O'Leary began her career with ABC as a member of a team including

Diane Sawyer Lila Diane Sawyer (; born December 22, 1945) is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ''ABC World News Tonight'', '' Good Morning America'', ''20/20'', and '' Primetime'' newsmag ...

Charles Gibson Charles deWolf Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist and podcaster. Gibson was a host of ''Good Morning America'' from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of ''World News with Char ...

, and

Peter Jennings Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings (July 29, 1938August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-born American television journalist who served as the sole anchor of ''ABC World News Tonight'' from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. He dropped o ...

, which won a

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

for reporting on the September 11th terrorist attacks. She worked for NPR from 2003 to 2006, before moving to Bloomberg TV, where she covered politics and economic policy. She then joined CNN in 2012 as an aviation and regulation correspondent. O'Leary suffered most of her life from symptoms of

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, which she was eventually diagnosed with at the age of 37. Related complications resulted in her decision to leave CNN in 2013. She joined Marketplace later in 2013 as a fill-in host, where she helped launch Marketplace Weekend, which she hosted for four years.

References

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Marketplace Weekend
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