Andrea Seabrook (born January 14, 1974) is an American journalist. She is best known for her work in public radio, primarily on

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and ‘’

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’’. Seabrook was among the first on-air public radio personalities to leave NPR and start a successful, independent podcast
DecodeDC
which was later acquired by the E.W. Scripps Corp. Seabrook went on to serve as DC Bureau Chief of ''Marketplace'' with

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, and then Managing Editor of the civic-tech app,

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. Seabrook has since moved to Costa Rica and founded a bilingual newspaper calle
The Monteverde News

Life

Seabrook received a bachelor's degree in biology from

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in 1996. While at Earlham, Seabrook worked at WECI, the college's public radio station. As part of her degree, Seabrook studied

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at La UNAM, The

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. Seabrook began reporting for NPR in 2001, after working on ''Anthem'', an NPR music program, and working in the Mexico Bureau and provided fill-in coverage of Mexico and Central America. She then returned to NPR headquarters in Washington, and worked on ''

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,'' a joint series of NPR and

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. She then went to work on ''

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'' with Bob Edwards. In July 2012, Seabrook left NPR and has started the political podcas
DecodeDC
with the goal of “deciphering Washington's Byzantine language and procedure, sweeping away what doesn't matter so listeners can focus on what does". The project was funded in part by a $100,724

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campaign and a partnership with

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. In September 2012
DecodeDC moved to the Mule Radio Podcast Syndicate
In November 2013, DecodeDC was acquired by the E.W. Scripps Corp. Seabrook left Scripps in 2015. In June 2016, Seabrook became the DC Bureau Chief of ''Marketplace'' with

and then in 2017, Seabrook became the Managing Editor of Countable, the premier

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app in the U.S. In 2018, Seabrook moved to Monteverde, Costa Rica, where she founde
The Monteverde News
a bilingual news organization.

References

External links

NPR Bio (archived)Twitter FeedDeCodeDC WebsiteThe Monteverde News
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