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Maria Hollenhorst

Senior Producer

Maria Hollenhorst is based in Los Angeles, California.

She produces content for Marketplace’s flagship broadcast including host interviews, economic explainers, and personal stories for the “Adventures in Housing” and “My Economy” series. Her work has been recognized by the Association for Business Journalists Best in Business Awards.

When not making radio, she can be found hiking, skiing, jogging, roller-blading, or exploring this beautiful world. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, she wound her way into journalism after graduating from the University of Utah. She has a deep appreciation for trees.

Latest from Maria Hollenhorst

  • Visitors take images of Huawei's foldable 5G smartphone, the Mate X, at the Mobile World Congress in February in Barcelona.
    Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images

    Plus: the trade deficit in goods shrank for the third straight month, California’s new data privacy law kicks in at the start of the new year and a nurse navigates finances in her semiretirement. 

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  • The NBC peacock logo.
    Michael Nagle/Getty Images

    Plus: Tesla is set to deliver its first cars built in China, a sleeping pill-induced money horror story and how swimsuit fabric drummed up controversy at the Olympics.

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  • Clean shipping is coming to a port near you
    AFP via Getty Images

    Plus: a look at the state of automatic inflation adjustments in minimum wage, how Saudi Arabia is pushing entrepreneurship, and Pantone’s 2020 color of the year.

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  • Will you get more overtime pay in 2020?
    KIM JAE-HWAN/AFP/Getty Images

    Plus: A look back at the last decade in trade and the last year in China. 

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  • Disney has some basic Baby Yoda merchandise on its online store, like T-shirts and phone cases.
    Katherine Wiles/Marketplace, screenshots via shopDisney

    Plus: a climate-conscious Christmas, a look back at the year in retail and one state’s efforts to curb traffic congestion. 

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  • Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg speaks during their annual shareholders meeting at the Field Museum on April 29, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Boeing announced earnings fell 21 percent in the first quarter after multiple crashes of the company's bestselling plane the 737 Max.
    Jim Young-Pool/Getty Images

    Plus: a chat with the LA mayor, a breakdown of what being a “most-favored-nation” means, and why there’s an overload of packages being delivered to the office.

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  • Holiday decorations on display in the Grand Foyer at the White House, December 2, 2019.
    Mark Wilson / Staff

    As a paralegal, Kelsey Berteaux uses language cautiously. Her out-of-office emails are no exception.

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  • The GOP tax cuts, two years on
    Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    Plus: Chinese surveillance companies finding blacklist workarounds, new consumer spending numbers and why it’s still so hard to shop sustainably.

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  • Woodworkers fall into the skilled workers category.
    Romain Lafabregue/AFP via Getty Images

    Plus: the economics of tangerine season, chat bots that can “yes and” and a conversation with Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.

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  • Do you shop online while at the office?
    Matt Cardy/Getty Images

    Plus: The latest consumer price index numbers, FedEx’s “horrific” earnings and a conversation with the CEO of the nation’s second-largest charity.

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