Tom Hudson
In a journalism career covering news from high global finance to neighborhood infrastructure, Tom Hudson is the Vice President of News and Special Correspondent for WLRN. He hosts and produces the Sunshine Economy and anchors the Florida Roundup in addition to leading the organization's news engagement strategy.
Hudson was most recently the co-anchor and managing editor of Nightly Business Report on Public Television. In that position Hudson reported on topics such as Federal Reserve interest rate policy, agriculture and global trade. Prior to co-anchoring NBR, he was host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated financial television program “First Business.” He overhauled the existing program leading to a 20 percent increase in distribution in his first year with the program.
Tom also reported and anchored market coverage for the groundbreaking web-based financial news service, WebFN. Beginning in 2001, WebFN was among the first live online streaming video outlets. While there he reported regularly from the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade and the CME. Additionally, he created original business news and information programming for the investor channel of a large e-brokerage firm distributed to six large market CBS Radio stations.
Before his jump to television and broadband, Tom co-anchored morning drive for the former all-news, heritage 50kw WMAQ-AM/Chicago. He spent the better part of a decade in general news as anchor, reporter, manager and talk show host in several markets covering a wide variety of stories and topics.
He has served as a member of the adjunct faculty in the Journalism Department of Columbia College Chicago and has been a frequent guest on other TV and radio programs as well as a guest speaker at universities on communications, journalism and business.
Tom writes a weekly column for the Miami Herald and the McClatchy-Tribune News Service. He appears regularly on KNX-AM/Los Angeles and WBBM-AM/Chicago for commentary on the economy and investment markets.
While Tom was co-anchoring and managing NBR, the program was awarded the 2012 Program of Excellence Award by American Public Television. Tom also has been awarded two National Press Foundation fellowships including one for the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists in 2006. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa and is the recipient of several professional honors and awards for his work in journalism.
He is married with two boys who tend to wake up early on the weekends.
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Nationwide, as in Florida, buyers have been backing out of home purchases at a record rate, recent figures show. About one out of every six contracts to buy a home in Miami-Dade County has been canceled so far this year. -
Citizens Property Insurance policies continue to be significantly underpriced compared to private carriers, the company told state regulators. The insurer of last resort in Florida isn't meant to be competitive. But if it were, its average premium for regular homeowner's insurance would have to almost double. -
The state panel is looking at how abortion rights may financially impact Medicaid, litigation and the state's overall economy, to name a few of the issues if voters approved Amendment 4. -
Brightline saw revenue jump thanks to service between Miami and Orlando. As it shifts focus to long distance riders, local efforts for commuter rail pick up steam. -
Regional Federal Reserve leader Raphael Bostic is prepared to cast his vote to lower interest rates late this year if he is convinced inflation has been beaten — and he’s not yet. -
A lot of Florida workers are worried about artificial intelligence and their jobs. Speaking English may help non-native speakers working in Florida. -
Remote work is lonely but has small positive effects. Workers don't have to return to the office full-time to boost performance, according to a new FIU analysis of dozens of studies. Now, South Florida's real estate must adjust. -
The University of Florida has the largest endowment of any university in the state and like elsewhere in the county, protesters are demanding divesture from companies doing business with Israel. While learning its investments is impossible, seeing its underwhelming investment returns isn’t. -
If you use a smart speaker, a search engine or social media – and who doesn’t? – a new state privacy law goes into effect soon. -
Thousands work in the commercial real estate industry. Thousands more help construct new buildings. And your savings account may be part of a bank loan to a commercial property. Why are experts optimistic about South Florida's market?
