Susie Gharib, born in 1950, is a business news journalist. Currently, she is Senior Special Correspondent for ''

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'' magazine. Gharib is also a contributor to ''

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produced by

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,'' a program that she co-anchored for 16 years until she left the show in December 2014. She was replaced by

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Career

Gharib joined ''Nightly Business Report'' in 1998 after a 20-year career working at some of America’s most prestigious print and broadcast organizations, including

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, and

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/New York. Gharib launched her career as a business journalist at

magazine, where she was a senior writer and associate editor. Her previous work includes reporter positions at ''

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'', the

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, and ''

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''. In 1983, she moved from print to the then-new medium of TV business news when she joined ''Business Times'' on

. During part of her career she went by her married name, Susie Nazem.

Awards

* In 2012, Gharib received the Elliot V. Bell Award from the New York Financial Writers’ Association for significant contribution to financial journalism. * Gharib is the recipient of a 2013

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for NBR’s profile of the first female president,

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, of

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. Gharib received an earlier Gracie Award in 2001 as the top anchorwoman of a national news program. * Gharib has also won the

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in 2012 for furthering global business understanding, and the “Front Page Award” from the Newswoman’s Club of New York in both 2007 and 2002. * Her 2002

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was for an outstanding panel discussion with high-profile CEOs on how to restore investor confidence in the aftermath of the business scandals at

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and

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. * She has also been named one of the nation's 100 most influential business journalists by the editors of TJFR, an industry publication.

Education

Gharib graduated

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with

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honors from

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

. Gharib also earned her master's degree in international affairs at

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. Gharib is among the outstanding graduates of Cleveland Heights High School featured in the book ''Every Tiger Has a Tale''.

Service

She is on the Board of Trustees of

, the Board of Advisors of

’s

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, and a member of the

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.Susie's Blog
, accessed March 4, 2015

Personal life

Gharib, one of four daughters of a Cleveland anesthesiologist, is of Iranian descent. One of her sisters is an endocrinologist in Boston. Gharib is married to Fred F. Nazem and have two children.

External links

Susie Gharib Distinguished Lectureship in Journalism

References

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