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Liza Tucker
Senior editor for Washington, Sustainability desks
Liza Tucker is a journalist with broad expertise in business and foreign affairs. She spent five years as a staff writer covering business in the nation's capital for The Washington Post, and three years in Moscow covering the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Her work appeared in Time, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal.
Liza has traveled extensively in Russia and the former Soviet Union, following political, economic, and social issues from Ukraine and the Baltics to the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Prior to joining Marketplace, Liza worked as a media consultant on Russia/Eastern Europe for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Project on Ethnic Relations. She has also taught journalism, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in creative writing.
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"I disagree with Diana Nyad, who told Bob Moon today that Americans are not interested in Wimbledon because there are so few Americans playing. I love watching tennis, no matter who is playing. I have watched tennis for years, but the networks toy with us, creating drama rather than showing the match. Oftentimes, televised matches end precisely when the allotted time expires, even if they have to cut and splice. When they don't, as happened in a Nadal match last weekend, we were left hanging at the end of two sets, as NBC switched to women's golf. I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't switch to MSNBC as was suggested. It's enough to make me turn off the TV and read about the matches online."
