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Alex Goldmark

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As seen in: Here & Now Anytime, Planet Money, Medium, NPR, Fast Company, Flipboard, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, WNYC (New York, NY), KRCC-FM (Colorado Springs, CO), Stanford Social Innovation Review, GBH News (Boston, MA), WLRN-FM (Miami, FL) and
Covers:  social enterprise, business, environment, transportation, tech, technology, impact investing
Doesn't Cover: health
Exec Prod @NPR’s @PlanetMoney. @StanfordHAI Journalist-in-Residence + @jskstanford fellow. (autodelete on) BlueSky: alexgoldmark.bsky.social

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Public radio reporter at heart, I dabble in the digital now too. Senior Producer for WNYC's New Tech City, occasional transportation reporter. I also cover social enterprise for public radio programs, FastCoExist and other places. A bit more here or there, and teaching radio at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Former contributing editor for GOOD magazine.

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Killed While Cycling: Why So Few Fatal Bike Crashes Lead to Arrest in NYC

Killed While Cycling: Why So Few Fatal Bike Crashes Lead to Arrest in NYC

Last year, 21 cyclists died in vehicle crashes in New York City. But only two drivers were arrested and local…

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Should Fighting Hunger Be a Franchise Business? - Business - GOOD

Should Fighting Hunger Be a Franchise Business? - Business - GOOD

A child in El Salvador holding a package of food aid. The idea of a business franchise is more likely to conj…

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Crowdfunding, Why the SEC Bans It, Obama Wants It, and Banks Fear It - Business - GOOD

Crowdfunding, Why the SEC Bans It, Obama Wants It, and Banks Fear It - Business - GOOD

As politicians left and right lament that stingy banks won't lend "to get the economy going again," another s…

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Mexico experiments with the 'branchless' bank

Mexico experiments with the 'branchless' bank

With costs to open rural bank branches prohibitive, tech companies look to turn payphones into virtual banks.

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Abandoned Bikes Abound

Abandoned Bikes Abound

It started out simply enough. Transportation Nation asked readers to help map all of the abandoned bikes in N…

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Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets Original

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By Rund Abdelfatah Verified, Erika Beras Verified, Casey Miner Verified, Cristina Kim Verified, Devin Katayama Verified, Sarah Wyman, Julia Redpath, Kyana Moghadam Verified, Alex Goldmark Verified, Sam Kesler
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How we got prediction markets: A brief history of forecasting the future : Planet Money Prediction markets aren’t new. Election betting was common until the 1940s, then mysteriously faded away. There was an entire political era when party bosses were expected to conspicuously gamble on their candidates (even if they secretly hedged). And in the 1980s, a few economists designed an election market that beat out election polling 74 percent of the time.
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Taiwan arms sales, Board of Trade, and Chinamaxxing

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By Darian Woods Verified, Wailin Wong Verified, Adrian Ma Verified, Corey Bridges, Alex Goldmark Verified, Kate Concannon Verified
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Taiwan arms sales, Board of Trade, and Chinamaxxing : The Indicator from Planet Money Unpacking Donald Trump’s trip to China: arms sales to Taiwan, the Board of Trade proposal and China’s growing soft power. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.
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What Spirit Airlines’ rise and fall tells us about the future of cheap flights

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By Greg Rosalsky Verified, Jacob Goldstein Verified, Zoe Chace Verified, Alex Goldmark Verified, Emma Peaslee Verified
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Spirit Airlines, bankruptcy, bailouts, and the future of cheap flights : Planet Money It’s way more than fuel costs that pushed Spirit Airlines to the brink of liquidation and led President Trump to muse about “buying” them.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Freelancer for public radio.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

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