Alex Goldmark
Alex Goldmark is the executive producer of Planet Money and The Indicator from Planet Money.
During his time there, the economics reporting unit has expanded from a twice-weekly Planet Money podcast to add a second, short daily podcast, The Indicator; a weekly broadcast radio program; a short video series; a newsletter; and Planet Money Summer School as well as NPR's first TikTok channel; first and only: superhero empire, record label, and oil company. Under his leadership, his team has also won various awards including a Peabody, a duPont-Columbia, a Murrow award. He was was also an advisor on NPR's Pulitzer Prize-winning No Compromise series.
Off air: he spent a year researching and prototyping uses of artificial intelligence for journalism as a JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 2023, work that continues in partnership with Stanford. He is a Journalist-in-Residence at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI.
Before NPR, Alex produced all kinds of audio programs from short form local podcasts, to live national daily call-in radio, to longform narratives and live events for public and commercial radio. He's reported on politics, business, arts, transportation and more for NPR, Marketplace, BBC, several NPR member stations, Air America Radio and has written for magazines like GOOD and Fast Company. He is based in New York City and usually bikes to the office. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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Think you have what it takes to successfully manipulate the market and build a domestic industry from the ground up? If so, these eight questions stand between you and your Summer School diploma in political cconomy. -
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There's a phone scam going around where an intimidating caller pretends to be from the IRS, demanding money immediately. There is also an anti-scam going on. At check cashing outlets, employees are dealing with terrified victims demanding to send money to fake IRS agents. Intervening requires awareness, compassion, and a script, just like the scammers use.
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Following the lead of cities like San Francisco and Washington, D.C., New York wants to permit passengers to use smartphone apps to find a yellow cab. But the prospect of change has prompted a lawsuit from private car services, whose passengers already use smartphones to hail drivers. -
The government of Brazil says it will switch 300,000 government computers from Microsoft's Windows operating system to open source software like Linux. Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to meet with Brazil's president to discuss the change. Brazil is dropping all proprietary software.
