Elizabeth Ross

Producer

Innovation Hub

Elizabeth is a producer for The Takeaway.

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

The lost art of listening

In a world full of noise, is anyone being heard?

The lost art of listening
Elementary students sit in a computer lab at school

Sal Khan on leveling the playing field, in and out of the classroom

Sal Khan on leveling the playing field, in and out of the classroom
Child in the shade outside

Families leaving traditional education have lessons for those left behind

Families leaving traditional education have lessons for those left behind
Pittsburgh skyline at night

Why we can’t quit cities

Why we can’t quit cities
A grocery store aisle of cleaning and disinfecting products

Living in a disinfected world could pose unintended consequences

Living in a disinfected world could pose unintended consequences
trays of printed social security checks from the US Treasury

A proposal to wipe out childhood poverty in the US

A Social Security benefit for the nation’s neediest kids would virtually eradicate poverty for children, says one leading economist.

A proposal to wipe out childhood poverty in the US
A yacht maneuvers near homes on Palm Island

Cities suffer when the 1% leave

Why many of us lose when the wealthiest move out of high-tax cities.

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

COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. It’s also created a moment to turn things right side up.

American exceptionalism in a pandemic
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What 1 billion Americans would mean for the US

The US has the world’s largest economy, but for how much longer?

What 1 billion Americans would mean for the US
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How tech reshapes our relationships

What happens when tech influences every aspect of our lives — even who we meet, and what our families look like?

How tech reshapes our relationships
Three women wearing masks hang signs on a laundry wire.

The future of our pandemic

In recent weeks, many states have seen significant increases in COVID-19 cases. What will it take to change the trajectory?

The future of our pandemic
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Pandemic-prompted remote education efforts get a failing grade

School’s out for summer, but the educational losses caused by the coronavirus are only just beginning to be understood.

Pandemic-prompted remote education efforts get a failing grade
President Trump holds up a Bible.

Never before have threats to US democracy been so grave, says political scientist

Could the US become a so-called “competitive authoritarian regime” which only bears the “outer look of democracy?”

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

In the midst of a pandemic, governors around the country have been reopening local economies and causing concern for many health experts. And in the rush to get back to business, governors are not meeting criteria to keep people safe.

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?

The coronavirus pandemic has been compared to the Great Depression and the Second World War, in terms of the threat it poses to democracy. Geopolitical risk analyst Ian Bremmer doesn’t think the crisis will usher in a new world order, but he believes it will intensify and speed up trends that many have worried about for years.

What will a post-coronavirus world look like?