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Covers:  weird, economics, economics, homelessness, travel, culture, inventions, gadgets
Host/Reporter, The Economics of Everyday Things (@freakonomics). Previously @thehustle, @voxdotcom, @priceonomics. Repped by @WME. Mountain lover.

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Zachary Crockett’s Biography

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Zachary is a writer for Priceonomics, and covers off-kilter sub-cultures, innovators, and communities. His work has been picked up by The New York Times, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, and Forbes.

He also spent a year chronicling rural artisans in South America, and is currently working on a collection of travel narratives.

Zachary Crockett’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Woman Behind Apple's First Icons

The Woman Behind Apple's First Icons

Thirty years ago, as tech titans battled for real estate in the personal computer market, an inconspicuous yo…

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The Business of Building Roller Coasters

The Business of Building Roller Coasters

A look at the rough and tumble history of roller coasters and the people who make them happen.

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The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling

The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling

There was a time when professional bowlers reigned supreme: in the "golden era" of the 1960s and 70s, they ma…

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Life as a LEGO Professional

Life as a LEGO Professional

A look at the elite few who make a living as professional Lego builders.

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Evicted in San Francisco

Evicted in San Francisco

The story of one elderly woman's eviction in San Francisco.

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The Invention of the AeroPress

The Invention of the AeroPress

How one inventor went from making Frisbees to one of the world's finest coffeemakers.

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Articles

Campgrounds - Freakonomics

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Back in 2016, Mark Lemoine was at the tail end of a long and stressful career in politics. LEMOINE: I was very much engaged in the public policy arena — Worked several years in the Michigan state Senate, and then I was a lobbyist at the state and federal level, working in the industries of retail and health care. And after 24 years in that industry my wife and I hit what we called the midlife reset button.
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Billboards - Freakonomics

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Ten years ago, Dan Levi got an unusual call from a recruiter. At the time, he was a successful marketing executive who had worked at companies like MTV and World Wrestling Entertainment. He spent all day thinking about digital advertising: ads on social networks and video sharing sites. But the phone call was about an opportunity in a much less glamorous field: billboards. LEVI: I originally turned down the interview, because who wants to be a billboard marketing guy?
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Megachurches - Freakonomics

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Growing up in the town of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Julie Roys spent much of her youth in a local church. ROYS: It was a small church, maybe 150, 200 people. Wonderful pastor, who was a friend of the family. And everybody knew each other. As she grew older, Roys became more involved in the Evangelical Christian faith. But she found that many of the newer churches weren’t like the one she grew up in. They were enormous — a hundred times the size.
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Interview

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Anecdotally.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

I spent an afternoon with inventor Alan Adler, going through boxes of his old prototypes. It was magical.