Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi
Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi is a host and reporter for Planet Money, telling stories that creatively explore and explain the workings of the global economy. He's a sucker for a good supply chain mystery 鈥� from to to . He's drawn to tales of unintended consequences, like the time a well-intentioned chemistry professor unwittingly helped unleash , or what happened when the U.S. Patent Office started granting And he's always on the lookout for economic principles at work in unexpected places, like the tactics comedians use to protect their .
He's reported from Iceland on the dramatic , from Denmark on the , and from Germany on the country's (uncannily familiar) obsession with . He also produced Planet Money's 2020 Murrow-award-winning , the show's audiobook rendition of the , as well as collaborative episodes with , and Gimlet Media's .
Horowitz-Ghazi hails from Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied history at Reed College, and got his start in radio at Oregon Public Broadcasting. He was selected as a 2014 AIR New Voices Scholar and a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. He previously worked with Michel Martin's team at All Things Considered, where he produced breaking news and feature stories, led film coverage, and directed the live broadcast.
At All Things Considered, Horowitz-Ghazi reported on how a national clown scare , who was behind of a wave of on the California coastline, what happens to a after they die, and why his hometown every year. He also pitched and produced "," a series of profiles on people adapting to the changing economy, and has interviewed , , , , , , , , , and , among many others. In his free time, he enjoys riding bicycles, playing squash (middlingly), and sleeping out of doors.
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Among the latest batch of new emoji is an unassuming blue pickup truck. The story of how that symbol got onto our devices offers a window into the big and sometimes dark money that companies are spending to influence the way we communicate.
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The Writers Guild of America declared victory after grappling for nearly two years with Hollywood's biggest talent agencies over how agents make their money.
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The Writers Guild of America declared victory after grappling for nearly two years with Hollywood's biggest talent agencies over how agents make their money.
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Some of the U.S. animal shelters have reported having all their dogs fostered during the quarantine. But it is not just that the pandemic made people want pets more 鈥� a dog supply chain has broken.
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Why are supermarkets running out of toilet paper? It's partly the same psychology behind a bank run 鈥� and partly about bottlenecks in supply chains.
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The rise of online retail has meant the rise of online returns. One country where that is particularly apparent is Germany. Some companies there are trying to find ways to cut down on the costs.
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The now-defunct budget airline WOW got Iceland hooked on tourism. The island nation's economy was reshaped by the tourism boom, and WOW's bankruptcy is changing things again.
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Drugs like K2 have been responsible for overdoses and spikes in emergency room visits in the U.S. Several of the formulas for these drugs came from the lab of a chemistry professor in South Carolina.
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Jeff Runions has spent almost four decades in the trucking industry. Now, he's helping drive the industry's shift toward automation, as a test driver for a self-driving trucking company. -
Sunita Williams was the second female commander of the International Space Station. Now, she says her new job working with private companies to develop space technologies feels like a new frontier.
