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Hayley Hershman

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I'm a producer on the On-Demand team. I'm currently working on an upcoming new podcast! (Please subscribe!)

In your next life, what would your career be?

I'd want to be a movie trailer editor (like Cameron Diaz in "The Holiday"!)

Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______.

Food!

What is something that everyone should own, no matter how much it costs?

Sunscreen!

What’s the favorite item in your workspace and why?

My coffee mug because it helps me stay caffeinated during meetings!!!!

Latest Stories (105)

Elections 2020

How Black Americans have been blocked from voting throughout U.S. history

by Reema Khrais , Hayley Hershman and Beth Pearlman
Sep 21, 2020
A conversation with Gilda R. Daniels, author of “Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.”
Various labor unions and progressive organizations protest on Capitol Hill Sept. 16, 2015, calling for the restoration of the Voting Rights Act struck down by the Supreme Court.
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images
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Divided Decade

Divided Decade: Financial crisis yields lasting pain and new possibilities

by Tommy Andres and Hayley Hershman
Dec 21, 2018
We gathered your stories for a year. Here's what we learned.
Latrice Collins, one of more than 500 participants in our How We Changed series.
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Divided Decade

Divided Decade: How the financial crisis changed you

by Tommy Andres and Hayley Hershman
Dec 20, 2018
We've gathered your stories for a year. Here's what we learned.
Jessica Perelman, one of more than 500 participants in our "How We Changed" series. 
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Marketplace Tech Blogs

Obstacles for "smart guns" are about ideology more than technology

by Hayley Hershman
Aug 13, 2018
Startups are making firearms that only registered owners can use, but the weapons face a tough road to market.
Assault rifles hang on the wall for sale at Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Virginia, in 2017.
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Divided Decade

The class of 2008 offers advice to the class of 2018

by Scott Tong and Hayley Hershman
May 22, 2018
Graduates from the Great Recession at the University of Arkansas returned to give advice to this year's graduates.
Graduates from 2008 and 2018 met at the University of Central Arkansas for a roundtable discussion.
Bryan Clifton/Marketplace
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Holiday shopping reflects our personal economy

by Adriene Hill , Hayley Hershman and Sean McHenry
Dec 26, 2017
When we feel secure with our finances, we're more likely to splurge on that hot new toy.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Errol Morris' new docuseries "Wormwood" was sold to Netflix as the "everything bagel"

by Kai Ryssdal and Hayley Hershman
Dec 14, 2017
It's a documentary. It's a period drama. It's a re-enactment. "It's my best something," the director says.
Director Errol Morris behind the camera on the set of "Wormwood."
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Brought to You By

Christmas has always been about consumption

by Hayley Hershman
Dec 8, 2017
And if you feel like the holiday used to be better, you're not alone.
Flanders says it's what we consume around Christmas that's changed over the years.
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My Economy

Surviving as an independent publisher in the digital age

by Hayley Hershman
Dec 6, 2017
One magazine owner shares his story.
As audiences move to mobile, it can be hard for independent publishers to keep up.
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Brought to You By

"A Christmas Carol" was supposed to be Dickens' moneymaker

by Hayley Hershman
Dec 1, 2017
Too bad it didn't make him any.
Circa 1954, English novelist and magazine columnist Monica Dickens reads to her children from "A Christmas Carol" by her grandfather Charles Dickens.  
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