Meribah Knight is the reporter and host of The Promise podcast from Nashville Public Radio. Before moving to Nashville, she was a staff reporter with Crain’s Chicago Business covering manufacturing in the Rust Belt, aviation, and the economy. Prior to Crain’s, she was a staff reporter with The Chicago News Cooperative, producing the Chicago section of The New York Times. There she covered a wide range of topics including arts and culture, housing, crime, education, and poverty.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Chicago Reader. Her radio and multimedia work has been featured on WBEZ, The PBS News Hour, and Chicago Public Television.
A native of Cambridge, Mass., Meribah has a Masters of Journalism from Northwestern University and a BA from New York University. She lives in Donelson with her husband, a photojournalist with The Tennessean, their toddler son, and five cats.
