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Maria Hollenhorst

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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 Stories (409)

Trade showdown

Tariff jitters are rippling through the ag economy

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Apr 5, 2018
Besides causing "extreme nervousness," the Ozark Mountain Poultry CEO says the tariff threats haven't impacted the market yet.
A potential trade war has implications for the poultry industry.
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Trade showdown

What China's tariff retaliation means for apple growers

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Apr 4, 2018
Patrick Smith of Loftus Ranches says trade wars disproportionately impact U.S. farmers.
Mark Morrell picks over his Jona Gold apples at Walters' Fruit Ranch in 2006 in Green Bluff, Washington.
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Why mobile quiz apps are rocking the trivia world

by Molly Wood and Maria Hollenhorst
Mar 30, 2018
"It's a profitable hobby all of the sudden" says trivia enthusiast Neal Pollack.
HQ Trivia
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Facebook Fallout

Why a New York professor is taking on Cambridge Analytica in the U.K.

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Mar 22, 2018
David Carroll is using a British law to try to force Cambridge Analytica to send him the data it's gathered on him.
Signs for company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the building in which they are based on March 21, 2018 in London, England.
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Shelf Life

TV writer Nell Scovell says men need to "make room"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Mar 22, 2018
It's not a pipeline problem, she says, but a "broken doorbell problem."
Nell Scovell says that when comedian Garry Shandling said she wrote like a guy, she took it as a compliment.
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Big Tech is slowly, carefully creeping into banking

by Molly Wood and Maria Hollenhorst
Mar 13, 2018
After disrupting retail, bookstores and media, tech companies are tiptoeing into the highly-regulated world of banking.
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For Dallas Fed president, sustaining long-term growth will take more than tax cuts

by Kai Ryssdal , Sean McHenry and Maria Hollenhorst
Feb 14, 2018
Robert Kaplan says fiscal policy should bring less debt and focus on economic fundamentals.
Pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange.
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My Economy

A scientist worries about a climate "hostile to science and the truth"

by Maria Hollenhorst and Robert Garrova
Jul 25, 2017
Government funding has been pretty reliable — up until now, the Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher says.
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Shelf Life

Why consumer credit is a matter of "social trust"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 25, 2017
The modern credit economy mostly works, author Josh Lauer says.
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Health insurance comes at a cost but so does not having it

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 13, 2017
Five years later, we check back with pipe organ builder Bradley Gawthrop about what's it's like trying to get insurance when you're self-employed or unemployed.
A healthcare reform specialist helps people select insurance plans at a free Affordable Care Act Enrollment Fair on November 2013.
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