Jill Barshay

Jill Barshay writes the weekly Proof Points column and Hechinger’s weekly newsletter about education research and data. Jill joined The Hechinger Report in 2011, after years as a business and economics reporter and a foreign correspondent. Previously, she was the New York bureau chief for Marketplace, a national business show aired on public radio stations. She has also written for Congressional Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Financial Times and appeared on CNN and ABC News. Jill was a 2016-17 Spencer Education Reporting Fellow at Columbia Journalism School. In 2019, she received the American Educational Research Association’s award for excellence in media reporting on education research. She taught algebra to ninth graders during the 2013-14 school year.