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WBUR People: Monica Brady-Myerov

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After graduating from Brown University in 1989 with a degree in international relations, Monica Brady-Myerov began her career as a radio journalist in earnest in Kenya, reporting for the Voice of America, Radio France International and many other news organizations. After two years, Brady-Myerov moved her radio freelance operation to Brazil, where she filed reports for ABC Radio News, The Christian Science Monitor Radio and other outlets.

Upon returning to the United States in 1993, Brady-Myerov worked on Monitor Radio's award winning Morning Edition radio program as a producer/editor. In 1995, Brady-Myerov went back to the reporting field as a Correspondent for Monitor Radio's Washington Bureau.

In 1997, Brady-Myerov joined National Public Radio's Washington Desk, where she covered political stories. Brady-Myerov joined Boston's NPR news affiliate station, WBUR, in 1998 as a correspondent. In 1999 she traveled to Albania to report on the Kosovo refugee crisis. In 2000 she returned to the region to do follow-up reports and a documentary on Kosovo.

At WBUR in Boston, Brady-Myerov covers issues including welfare, housing, religion, the media and mental health. Many of her reports can be heard on NPR's national news broadcast and Marketplace radio.

In 2000 Brady-Myerov was named a Carter Center Mental Health Journalism Fellow for her coverage of mental health issues. She has won numerous other awards from The Associated Press. In 2002, she won an Extended Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy from the University of Maryland.


Recent Stories By Monica Brady-Myerov

The Stimulus At Work: A Fall River Firefighter Gets His Job Back

Published March 15, 2010
Ray Schofield was laid off by the Fall River Fire Department last year, but was brough back with stimulus money.

FALL RIVER, Mass. — If Massachusetts was allowed to take the $9 billion in federal stimulus money they received and cut checks for everyone in the Commonwealth, your share would be about $1,300. But the stimulus money is meant to spur growth, by saving jobs, repairing roads and improving energy efficiency.

As Construction Alters Closed Church, Jamaica Plain Builds Its Community

Published March 8, 2010

BOSTON — The Archdiocese of Boston has closed more than 60 Catholic churches in Greater Boston since 2004. It can be a painful and divisive process, but at one church in Jamaica Plain, it has been a community-building effort.

Hyde Park’s Greenwood School Takes Steps To ‘Perform’

Published March 5, 2010

BOSTON — Thirty-five “underperforming” public schools in Massachusetts are facing an ultimatum under the state’s recently approved education reform effort. WBUR stopped by Hyde Park’s Elihu Greenwood, where progress has begun, to understand the challenges and possibilities the “underperforming” label presents.

Mass. Identifies 35 Underperforming Schools

Published March 4, 2010

BOSTON — Thirty-five Massachusetts schools — including 12 in Boston — have been tapped to undergo major restructuring because they are deemed underperforming, in accordance with the state’s recently-passed education reform package.

Strained Themselves, Incoming Haitian Students Strain Local Schools

Published March 1, 2010

BROCKTON, Mass. — Many Haitian communities in the Greater Boston area have been welcoming new arrivals since Haiti’s devastating earthquake in January. And while that transition has been difficult for many students, that influx of new immigrants has also created a challenge in the schools.

Jobless Bank On Their Best Resource: Time

Published February 23, 2010
Gail and Betsy Leondar-Wright, of Arlington, pack up dinner for someone as part of the Time Trade Circle. (Photo by Monica Brady-Myerov/WBUR)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Local residents are finding creative ways to put something other than money in the bank. Instead, they are banking time. Cambridge’s Time Trade Circle allows members to do work for someone, bank that time, and then cash in that time on a service provided by another member.

Mass. Requests Federal Credit To Cover Unemployment Benefits

Published February 8, 2010

BOSTON — The state has requested a line of credit from the U.S. Treasury Department to borrow up to $250 million to cover the cost of unemployment benefits this month.

Brown Puts Together An Eager New Staff

Published February 8, 2010
Sen. Scott Brown speaks during his first news conference as a senator on Feb. 4 in Washington. (AP)

This week is Sen. Scott Brown’s first week of work in Washington. The Senate calendar has several nomination confirmations, one of them controversial, and the introduction of a jobs bill. To get up to speed on everything before him in the Senate, Brown will be relying on his new staff, which he is still selecting.

Brown, The New Guy On Capitol Hill, Is Pretty Popular

Published February 5, 2010
Sen. Scott Brown reenacts his swearing in by Vice President Joe Biden, right, as Brown's wife, Gail Huff, holds the family bibles Thursday in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill. Earlier, Brown was sworn in on the floor of the Senate. (AP)

WASHINGTON — The new senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, already has celebrity status in Washington. Republicans filled the Senate chamber for his swearing-in Thursday and are hoping he uses his 41st vote to block some of the Democratic agenda.

Brown Is Sworn In As U.S. Senator

Published February 4, 2010
Vice President Joe Biden swore in Scott Brown as U.S. Senator at the Capitol on Thursday. Brown was flanked by former interim Sen. Paul Kirk and Sen. John Kerry, far right. (Senate Television via AP)

WASHINGTON — Republican Scott Brown was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, the first GOP Senator from Massachusetts in 38 years. The little-known former state lawmaker rocked the nation with his upset victory last month over a favored Democrat. Brown’s arrival ends the Democrats’ supermajority and gives the GOP 41 votes they can use to block President Obama’s agenda.

Brown Poised To Become Massachusetts’ New Senator

Published February 4, 2010
Sen.-elect Scott Brown speaks to reporters in his office at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Jan. 28. (AP)

WASHINGTON — A 5 p.m. swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for the Massachusetts Republican at the U.S. Senate after Gov. Deval Patrick officially signed and certified Brown’s special election victory on Thursday morning.

9 Percent Of Mass. Residents Receive Food, Shelter Aid

Published February 2, 2010

BOSTON — Reflecting the dire economic conditions for many in the state, the number of people in Massachusetts who use a food pantry, soup kitchen or pantry has jumped by 23 percent over the past four years, according to a new study by Hunger in Massachusetts.

Brown, And His Church, Don’t Wear Religion On The Sleeve

Published February 2, 2010
(Bianca Vazquez Toness/WBUR)

FRANKLIN, Mass. — Massachusetts has more Catholics than any other state in the nation and religion has always played a significant role in politics. But very little is known about Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s religious beliefs. He belongs to the New England Chapel, a member of Christian Reformed Church in North America, which is of a Protestant Christian denomination and follows a conversational version of the Bible called “The Message.”

Too Little, Too Late: Advocacy Groups Lament Role In Coakley Campaign

Published January 21, 2010

BOSTON — Many of the classic constituents of the Democratic Party are second guessing the role they played in the crucial Massachusetts Senate race, after Martha Coakley’s stunning loss to Republican Scott Brown.

Coakley Loss Catches Democrats ‘Flat-Footed’

Published January 20, 2010
Martha Coakley concedes in Boston on Tuesday after losing a special election held to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. (AP)

BOSTON — Martha Coakley returns full-time Wednesday to her job as state attorney general. Coakley did not win the election that many Democrats believed would be an easy victory. Instead, Republican Scott Brown won 52 percent of the vote to Coakley’s 47 percent.

Obama: ‘Understand What’s At Stake Here, Massachusetts’

Published January 17, 2010

BOSTON — “Understand what’s at stake here, Massachusetts,” President Obama said at a Martha Coakley campaign rally Sunday in Boston. “It’s whether we are going forward or going backwards. It’s whether we are going to have a future where everybody gets a shot in this society or just the privileged few. If you were fired up in the last election, I need you even more fired up in this election.”

Crowd Lines Northeastern As Obama Stumps For Coakley

Published January 17, 2010

BOSTON — Thousands of people lined up along Huntington Avenue on Sunday afternoon, trying to get inside Northeastern University’s Cabot Center as they awaited President Obama’s appearance.

Dems Question Why Brown Is Gaining On Coakley

Published January 14, 2010

BOSTON — Some Democrats blame Martha Coakley for coasting out of the primary and allowing Republican Scott Brown to define himself and make the race for the U.S. Senate closer than expected.

Supreme Court Ruling Creates Logjam In Mass. Courts

Published January 11, 2010

BOSTON — A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring prosecutors to put chemists on the witness stand to certify their lab reports is causing delays and headaches in courtrooms across the state.

Interviewing Mary Daly, Unapologetic Feminist Theologian

Published January 6, 2010

BOSTON — I’ve interviewed hundreds of people in my more than 10 years as a reporter at WBUR. Today alone I’ve interviewed three. But some people stick in my memory and Boston College professor and feminist Mary Daly is one of them.

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