canceled<\/a> \u201cThe Afternoon Shift,\u201d which aired from 2 to 4 p.m. weekdays. She previously was a business reporter covering local, state and regional news, specializing in the economy and manufacturing.<\/p>\nBefore joining WBEZ in 2010, Boodhoo worked in Miami for WLRN, The Associated Press, Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. She began her journalism career in 2000 working for Reuters in London and Washington, DC. A graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she holds master's degrees from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and Florida International University.<\/p>\n
Illinois Public Media is the not-for-profit public media service of the College of Media at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Niala Boodhoo, former host of \u201cThe Afternoon Shift\u201d on Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5, has been hired as host and executive producer of a new one-hour Monday-through-Friday talk show for downstate Illinois Public Media. \u201cThe 21st\u201d will debut March 14 on WILL in Urbana and WUIS in Springfield, and will be available for simulcast... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}