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Daisy Palacios

Senior Producer

SHORT BIO

Daisy is the senior producer for “Marketplace Tech,” where she leads a team of collaborative producers and hosts in covering the latest tech trends and examining how technology impacts the economy and our daily lives.

Before that, she was a producer and editor working mostly on stories that appeared on Marketplace’s flagship afternoon program. Over the years, Daisy has field produced stories across the country on a wide array of topics — small business, immigration, manufacturing, trade, elections and natural disaster recovery. She also spent time on Marketplace’s “This Is Uncomfortable” podcast producing stories about how money shapes identities and affects relationships.

Daisy was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, where she was a reporter for the campus radio news show.

Latest Stories (157)

Big stock market trouble in China

Jul 8, 2015
Andy Rothman explains why the government should stay out of the economy.
Chinese shares dropped sharply on Wednesday, with the Shanghai Composite Index slipping down to nearly 3,400 points when it opened — the lowest point of the day.
ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

Richard Nixon 'wanted to be a good prince'

Author looks into the psyche of the anxious introvert who was 37th president.
“Nixon's become kind of a cartoon to us," says author Evan Thomas. "We think he's wicked and evil. I just didn't believe that.”
National Archive/Newsmakers

Donna Karan leaves behind a fashion legacy

Jul 1, 2015
The designer is stepping down from her self-titled fashion line.
Donna Karan's feminine, sensuous designs were "a revelation for many professional women," says fashion journalist Kate Betts.
Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Checking in with the secretary of commerce

Jul 1, 2015
Kai talks to Penny Pritzker about the Export-Import bank and TPP.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker wants to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank.
Linly Lin/Marketplace

Closing the 710 freeway gap

Jun 17, 2015
A look at one of Los Angeles County’s most persistent infrastructure controversies.
The gap between the 710 and 210 freeways near Los Angeles.
Tony Wagner/Marketplace

Freshly re-elected Sepp Blatter leaves FIFA

Jun 2, 2015
Sepp Blatter is taking a permanent timeout from FIFA.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter holds a press conference at the headquarters of the world's football governing body in Zurich on Tuesday. Blatter resigned as president of FIFA as a mounting corruption scandal engulfed world football's governing body. 
VALERIANO DI DOMENICO/AFP/Getty Images

42 charged two years after Bangladesh factory collapse

Jun 1, 2015
17 face murder charges; the owner allegedly ignored safety warnings.
Bangladeshi relatives of missing garment workers take part in a protest marking the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 24, 2014. More than 1,100 people were killed in the country's worst industrial disaster.
MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images

The global influence of hip hop and breakdancing

May 19, 2015
Filmmaker Adam Sjöberg chronicles the lives of b-boys and girls around the world.
Breakdancers in Cambodia.
Bond/360

The dark side of online education

May 18, 2015
Pakistani company Axact is making millions by selling fake diplomas.
A screenshot from a promotional video for "Newford University," one of the fake school's identified in the New York Times' investigation.
Courtesy:Newford University on Vimeo

Elon Musk's evolution, from sci-fi dreams to Space X

May 14, 2015
Musk's biographer on the entrepreneur's upbringing, career and innovation.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils the company's Dragon V2, May 2014.
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images