Mary Ellen Podmolik
Associate Managing Editor/Business
Chicago Tribune

Mary Ellen Podmolik is Associate Managing Editor/Business for the Chicago Tribune. She previously was the deputy business editor and before that, a reporter covering real estate and the nation’s housing crisis. She also has worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and Southtown Economist and was a contributor to Crain’s Chicago Business and cnbc.com. She got her start in journalism at the Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune.