Business, Economics and Finance

Take Note: Keystone Crossroads' New Podcast, "Grapple," Visits Scranton

WPSU | By Naomi Starobin,

Published September 30, 2016 at 2:06 PM EDT

Eleanor Klibanoff in front of the city of Scranton.

In this special broadcast of Take Note on WPSU, you’ll hear excerpts from a new show from Keystone Crossroads. It's called “Grapple,” and it gives voice to people living and working in distressed communities across Pennsylvania. You’ll hear conversations that help tell the story of America’s profound economic and social changes. Including how places have changed over time to what distressed communities are grappling with today.

In this episode, you’ll hear about Scranton and how its economy has changed over the years with WPSU’s very own Eleanor Klibanoff. Her grandfather was a longtime pharmacist there.

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Naomi Starobin

Naomi was the editor for Keystone Crossroads. She came to the project from WSHU Public Radio in Connecticut, where she was News Director. Before that, she was a factchecker at Consumer Reports magazine. She has a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Naomi is a Philadelphia native.

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Eleanor Klibanoff

Eleanor Klibanoff was WPSU's reporter for Keystone Crossroads, a statewide reporting collaboration that covers the problems and solutions facing Pennsylvania's cities. Previously, Eleanor was a Kroc Fellow at NPR in DC. She worked on the global health blog and Weekend Edition, reported for the National desk and spent three months at member station KCUR in Kansas City. Before that, she covered abortion politics in Nicaragua and El Salvador, two of the seven countries in the world that completely ban the procedure. She's written for Atlanta Magazine, The Nicaragua Dispatch and Radio Free Europe.

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