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Nancy Farghalli

Executive Producer

Nancy is the executive producer of “Marketplace,” a daily radio program hosted by Kai Ryssdal that reaches more than 12.5 million people weekly. She oversees all daily production and content of “Marketplace,” guiding the show’s series, specials and regular programming. Prior to this role, Nancy held several positions at Marketplace, serving as lead pilot producer for podcasts and senior editor of the Wealth & Poverty Desk. In this position, she worked with a reporting team to cover social mobility, wealth disparity and the economics of mobility. She created and produced the award-winning podcast “The Uncertain Hour.” She has led production of live events, such as Marketplace’s 2012 election tour and the 25th anniversary roadshow tour. She also collaborated with the BBC, Slate, The New York Times and ProPublica on investigative and immersive series focused on health care economics, immigration and wage politics. Nancy is on the board of SABEW, the Association for Business Journalists. She played a critical role in special coverage streams — including the last three presidential elections, the Great Recession and news about the Middle East and the Arab Spring. Nancy worked on the Emmy Award-winning series “Big Sky, Big Money,” a PBS “Frontline” documentary about money in politics, produced in partnership with Marketplace.

Latest from Nancy Farghalli

  • Volunteers look over the US-Mexico border fence to see how illegal border crossers may jump the fence before going on the nightly patrol. 
    David McNew/Getty Images

    We look at the economic consequences, starting with putting the brakes on the auto industry. Plus, the fight against robocalls and why that tote bag might not be as environmentally friendly as you think.

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  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post, which details the procedures he would like the government to use as its regulation standard.
    David Ramos/Getty Images

    CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out the case for regulating his own company, but regulating one tech giant will likely mean regulating others. First we do the numbers on Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company. Plus: what you need to know about a big snack food merger.

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  • Washington DC's Spingarn High School, where Keith Jackson attended before his arrest, November 2018. 
    Jared Soares/Marketplace

    One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his classmates, that wasn’t the surprising part.

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  • A pedestrian shelters beneath a Union flag-themed umbrella near Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in central London on June 25, 2016, following the pro-Brexit result of the U.K.'s EU referendum vote.
    JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been voted down a third time. On today’s special broadcast from London, Kai Ryssdal talks with business owners and regular folks about how they’re getting by amid all this uncertainty.

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  • Protesters gather to demonstrate against the EU referendum result in Trafalgar Square on June 28, 2016 in London, England. Up to 50,000 people were expected before the event was cancelled due to safety concerns. Early evening up to 300 people have still converged on the square to vent their anti-Brexit feelings. 
    Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

    It’s our second day of special Brexit coverage in London, and today we’re talking with entrepreneurs and American expats just trying to get by.

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  • Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, during the IMF and the World Bank Group 2018 spring meetings in Washington, D.C., in 2018.
    Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

    Here's why she doesn't think "turning inward" is the solution.

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  • Shoppers walk along the high street in the market town of Boston in Lincolnshire in 2015.
    Lindsay Parnaby/AFP/Getty Images

    It’s been 1,007 days since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union — and the ensuing political paralysis and economic uncertainty. Today we come to you from Boston, which had the highest proportion of votes to leave.

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  • The view of Brexit from outside Parliament
    TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images

    Kai Ryssdal’s in London this week, reporting on how Brexit is affecting people, businesses and the economy. But first: The Trump administration is taking the Affordable Care Act to court … what happens if it wins?

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  • The Apple logo is seen onstage prior to an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California.
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    What does Apple bring to the streaming wars? Plus: Some farmers are struggling to pay back government loans, thanks to trade wars and low prices for key crops. 

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  • President George H.W. Bush addressing the nation on Sept. 5, 1989. The president illustrated the threat of drugs by holding up a baggie of crack he said had been seized across the street from the White House.
    Courtesy: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

    The Uncertain Hour is going inside America’s drug war this season. We’re starting with the strange and little-known story of how, 30 years ago, George H.W. Bush came to hold up an baggie of crack in his first televised speech in the Oval Office.

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