Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi
Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi reports and produces 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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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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Filmmaker Mads Br眉gger's new film, Cold Case Hammarskj枚ld, is a controversial investigation into the mysterious plane crash that killed U.N. General Secretary Dag Hammarskj枚ld over Zambia in 1961.
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We follow the founder of f*ckjerry and comedian Jim Mendrinos into the world of comedy. Where a whole series of informal sanctions are deployed to protect jokes from theft. -
Stealing jokes is as old as comedy itself and it has become increasingly rampant and profitable on Instagram. One social media campaign may be forcing a major Instagram account to change its behavior.
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Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch lets viewers make decisions for the main character. The publisher of theChoose Your Own Adventure book series is suing Netflix for trademark infringement.
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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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Synthetic drugs like "Spice" and "K2" have helped jumpstart a revolution in the drug trade. -
Parkinson's Law says work expands to fill the time allotted. Goodhart's Law says you get what you measure. Has anyone ever tested these laws of the modern workplace? -
During coyote hunting derbies, contestants vie to kill more coyotes than their competitors. Wildlife activists believe the competitions are unethical, and are pushing to make them a thing of the past. -
California Fish and Wildlife agents are combating a rash of succulent poaching incidents on the state's coastline, apparently to satisfy a booming demand for the plants in Korean and Chinese markets.
