Zoe Chace
Zoe Chace explains the mysteries of the global economy for NPR's Planet Money. As a reporter for the team, Chace knows how to find compelling stories in unlikely places, including a lollipop factory in Ohio struggling to stay open, a pasta plant in Italy where everyone calls in sick, and a recording studio in New York mixing Rihanna's next hit.
In 2008, Chace came to NPR to work as an intern on Weekend Edition Saturday. As a production assistant on NPR's Arts Desk, she developed a beat covering popular music and co-created Pop Off, a regular feature about hit songs for Morning Edition. Chace shocked the music industry when she convinced the famously reclusive Lauryn Hill to sit down for an interview.
Chace got her economic training on the job. She reported for NPR's Business Desk, then began to contribute to Planet Money in 2011. Since then Chace has also pitched in to cover breaking news for the network. She reported live from New York during Hurricane Sandy and from Colorado during the 2012 Presidential election.
There is much speculation on the Internet about where Chace picked up her particular accent. She explains that it's a proprietary blend: a New England family, a Manhattan childhood, college at Oberlin in Ohio, and a first job as a teacher in a Philadelphia high school.
The radio training comes from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and collaboration with NPR's best editors, producers and reporters.
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To understand why Germany is so freaked out by what Europe's central bank is doing, you need to go back nearly a century. -
Hackers call up corporations and try to get them to reveal sensitive information. Hello, Wal-Mart? -
Did a fictional series about the end of the euro lead to real-world rumors about troubles at big French banks? -
North Korea used to be an industrial powerhouse. Not anymore. Now the government exports drugs and counterfeit dollars. -
Why pay interest before, say, food stamps? "If we start defaulting on our debt there are going to be a whole lot more people on food stamps than there are now," says a former Under Secretary of the Treasury. -
The life and death of pork-belly futures, explained by a trader in Chicago's meat pit. -
We go step-by-step through the making of Rihanna's song "Man Down." Bringing in top songwriters and producers costs tens of thousands of dollars. Trying to turn the song into a hit costs much more. -
FBI agent Keith Mularski ran one of the biggest underground virtual markets for stolen credit card information. To get the job, he spent two years posing as a Polish spammer known as Master Splyntyr.
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At an online megamall, criminals buy and sell huge lists of stolen credit card numbers. To get in, you need references from other criminals. And paradoxically, in order to do business, you have to show that you can deal honestly. -
U.S. coal companies are having a banner year this year. There are a bunch of mergers, new mines and high stock prices. It's a resurgence of 19th-century America. And it's happening thanks to 21st-century China.
