Scott Gurvey

Scott Gurvey helped blaze the trail for business journalism on television and online. In his longtime role as New York Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent for public television’s Nightly Business Report (“NBR”) Gurvey covered the financial markets, business, and the economy for the first and longest-running daily program dedicated to financial news on broadcast television.

As Bureau Chief, Gurvey managed what was public television’s only New York Newsroom for more than 25 years. Gurvey also helped lead NBR into the online age, assisting in the development of an online presence for PBS. Expanding on previous work writing newsroom standards at CBS and NBC, Gurvey helped write the PBS Editorial Standards and Practices Manual. His personal blog, “Public Offerings”, was a regular feature of the pbs.org web site. NBR’s 34 year run on public television ended in 2013.

Gurvey has a bachelor's degree in politics from Princeton University with a certificate for the Program for Science in Human Affairs, a master's in journalism from Columbia University, and a master's in business administration from the University of Chicago. He has taught journalism at UCLA Extension, Washington and Lee University and Loyola University of Chicago and has lectured, participated in panel discussions, and advised students at Princeton, Columbia, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and New York University. He has worked for PBS, CBS and NBC and has written for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. He is a resource lecturer for The News Literacy Project/Checkology.