Darren Gersh was the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the PBS show, Nightly Business Report from 1995 through 2013. He made the move to public service when he joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on June 3, 2013.[1] While at the CFPB, Gersh was the Senior Financial Education Campaign Coordinator, where he was responsible for developing the new educational campaign for mortgage consumers and intermediaries. He is currently a Senior Media Relations Specialist for the Federal Reserve.
Gersh was educated at Yale University. He produced numerous segments for NBR including many specials with in depth coverage of the economies, cultures and issues relating to foreign countries such as China and Vietnam. He won an Emmy for reporting on China in and a Loeb award for his special on India.[citation needed]
Awards
2005 Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting for “China’s Century of Change.”
2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Television Daily business journalism for "India's Promise"[2]
2000: Brian Gaffney, John Reiss, Neal Shapiro, Lea Thompson
Gerald Loeb Award for Other TV Markets (1997)
(1997)
1997: Antonio Valverde
Gerald Loeb Award for Television (2001–2002)
(2001–2002)
2001: Lynne Dale, John Larson
2002: Allan Dodds Frank, Lisa Slow
Gerald Loeb Award for Television Long Form (2003–2004)
(2003–2004)
2003: Craig Cheatham, Mark Hadler, Andrea Torrence
2004: Rome Hartman, Lesley Stah
Gerald Loeb Award for Television Short Form (2003–2004)
(2003–2004)
2003: Gerilyn Curtin, Jill Rackmill, Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, David Scott, Simon Surowicz, Chris Vlasto
2004: Doug Adams, Christiana Arvelis, Donna Bass, Steve Capus, Joo Lee, Karen Nye, Albert Oetgen, Felicia Patinkin, Charles Schaeffer, Nikki Stamos, Anne Thompson
Gerald Loeb Award for Television Deadline (2005–2006)
2006: Doug Adams, Liz Brown, Rick Brown, Rich Dubroff, Katie Ernst, Mario García, Sharon Hoffman, Joo Lee, Genevieve Michel-Bryan, Albert Oetgen, Meaghan Rady, John Reiss, Chuck Schaeffer, Chris Scholl, Carl Sears, Jill Silverstri, Doug Stoddart, Anne Thompson, Kelly Venardos
Gerald Loeb Award for Television Enterprise (2006–2011)