Bruce Melzer joined NPR in May 2001, after a mid-career stint at Columbia University, where he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism and earned a Masters in Journalism and an M.B.A. Prior to graduate school, he was the business producer at ABCNews.com in Seattle, managing and editing business coverage for the Web site. Before jumping into the digital world, he spent seven years as a business reporter at theAnchorage Daily News in Anchorage, Alaska and seven years as a reporter and then news director at KSKA-FM in Anchorage. Bruce holds a B.S. from U.C. Davis.