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Elizabeth RossER

Elizabeth Ross

ProducerInnovation Hub
Elizabeth Ross is senior producer for Innovation Hub. For many years, she was WGBH's producer for the national news radio program, "The Takeaway, " a co-production with WNYC and PRI. Elizabeth's work has aired on PRI's "The World," NPR and the BBC. She also collaborated with The GroundTruth Project, reporting on local stories for WGBH News that complemented GroundTruth's international reporting.Elizabeth grew up across the pond in the United Kingdom and began her journalism career as a BBC Regional News Trainee based in Wales. She was a producer at the BBC World Service for the show "East Asia Today" and a freelance producer and reporter for BBC Radio 4's "The World Tonight."
A woman sits on a bed using her phone with another woman in the hallway doing the same
Science & Technology
The lost art of listening
Elementary students sit in a computer lab at school
Education
Sal Khan on leveling the playing field, in and out of the classroom
Child in the shade outside
Education
Families leaving traditional education have lessons for those left behind
Pittsburgh skyline at night
Infrastructure
Why we can’t quit cities
A grocery store aisle of cleaning and disinfecting products
Disease
Living in a disinfected world could pose unintended consequences
trays of printed social security checks from the US Treasury
Economics
A proposal to wipe out childhood poverty in the US
A yacht maneuvers near homes on Palm Island
Business, Economics and Jobs
Cities suffer when the 1% leave
CDC Director Dr. Redfield and Dr. Fauci leave a meeting together. A screen displays the text, "Opening Up America Again."
American exceptionalism in a pandemic
A crowd of people rushing in a subway station
Immigration
What 1 billion Americans would mean for the US
Hand reaching forward to set the timer on a washing machine
Women & Gender
How tech reshapes our relationships
Three women wearing masks hang signs on a laundry wire.
COVID-19
The future of our pandemic
people stand socially distanced in front of a school
Education
Pandemic-prompted remote education efforts get a failing grade
President Trump holds up a Bible.
US politics
Never before have threats to US democracy been so grave, says political scientist
A woman wearing a protective face mask passes grocery shoppers amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore on May 15, 2020.
The great reopening
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the US. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes
What will a post-coronavirus world look like?
A person in PPE works in a lab
Disease
A path out of a pandemic
An aerial view of a field with the message "Climate change is real"
Science
Science for sale and profits before health and safety
A man reaches up to plants
Food
How are we going to feed ourselves when there are 10 billion people on the planet?
a close up of a man with a beard swabbing his mouth.
Science
Home DNA tests reveal more than we bargained for
Elizabeth Warren wears a red blazer and speaks with one hand in the air.
Health care reform: The ‘insurance company model’ is flawed, says historian
Children at school
A North Dakota law gives school districts a chance to experiment
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris at a Democratic primary debate.
Business, Economics and Jobs
As the American wage gap grows, workers of color are being left behind
Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton shake hands on stage in front of a crowd.
Politics
America’s polarized politics may be here to stay
A black and white photo showing three scientists in an old looking laboratory.
Science
Why history’s most famous scientists are usually a bit weird
Protesters hold signs reading, "We voted leave" and "Leave means leave."
How the US influenced the creation of the EU
Two people look at a museum displaying showing a history of Donald Trump's tweets
Technology
Historian: Technology and politics has always been dysfunctional in the US
Alex Diaz at a College Bound Dorchester graduation ceremony on Aug. 24, 2017.
Education
The road from prison to college is a hard one. Here’s how this new high school graduate made it.
School lunch
Culture
Trump’s new school lunch plan allows for ‘dangerously high levels of sodium’
Jordan Edwards
Conflict
What we know so far about the police shooting of Jordan Edwards
attorney
Education
How can ‘sanctuary cities’ resist Trump? This lawsuit could provide a blueprint.
Policing the police Newark
Justice
Check out this new documentary on New Jersey’s fight to ‘police the police’
A man carries an EU flag after Britain voted to leave the European Union, outside Downing Street in London.
Global Politics
Historian: Brexit vote was ‘unnecessary act of self-harm’
Curry dishes at Camden Lock in London.
Business
Should the UK leave Europe? There’s a curry angle.
The Downs family after their rescue. A German U-boat torpedoed the ship they were sailing on in the Gulf of Mexico in 1942.
Conflict
Survivor of WWII U-boat attack: ‘I went under and didn’t think I was ever going to come up’
From the film "In An Ideal World."
Justice
California prisons struggle to adapt to desegregation
concord water
Environment
Here’s a small town’s advice for cities considering a plastic water bottle ban
Global outbreak monitoring map
Health
How a map could open new doors to predicting and understanding epidemic outbreaks
Vanessa Kerry
Health
Like her father, Vanessa Kerry is reporting for duty. Her mission: Preventing the next outbreak.
Qais Akbar Omar and longtime friend Stephen Landrigan.
Culture
Now in the US, this Afghan writer is unable to return home
Steven and Mackenzie Loy at the start of the 2013 Boston Marathon. She was stopped a mile short of the finish line after the race was bombed.
Sports
Once thwarted by the Boston bombings, this marathoner prepares for the Paris Marathon post-Charlie Hebdo
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on December 22, 2014.
Conflict
Russia’s ‘incompetent’ spies get nabbed in New York, but here’s why it doesn’t matter
A soldier from the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade adjusts his gas mask prior to an air analysis mission near an oil and gas separation plant at the Baba Gurgur oil field outside northern Iraq's town of Kirkuk on May 3, 2003.
Health
The Army’s secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure
The Scottish saltire flag
Global Politics
Scottish expats can’t vote in the independence referendum, but they will have their say
A woman pushes at Chinese paramilitary police wearing riot gear as a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region on July 7, 2009.
Conflict
How China squeezes its Uighur minority — and how they’re fighting back
Afghan National Army soldiers inspect a car at a checkpoint near the British-run military training academy, Camp Qargha, in Kabul on August 6, 2014.
Conflict
The death of an American general reveals the dilemma of working with Afghan soldiers
Afghan National Army soldiers inspect a car at a checkpoint near the British-run military training academy, Camp Qargha, in Kabul on August 6, 2014.
Conflict
The death of an American general reveals the dilemma of working with Afghan soldiers
Conflict & Justice
One World War II veteran brings the Normandy invasion to life with his ‘D-Day in a box’
Conflict & Justice
US Army Veteran Plans to Help the Military Through his Bioengineering Solutions
Arts, Culture & Media
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