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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

  • A homemade sign says "Think drugs gets you high give God a try," on a front lawn in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The town in Wise County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
    Julia Rendleman/Marketplace

    How George H.W. Bush turbocharged the war on drugs. Plus, the latest home sales numbers and the struggle to fight extremism online.

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  • Smart cars are getting smarter
    Scott Olson/Getty Images

    Volvo is planning to introduce tech that monitors the health and wakefulness of drivers. But do the benefits outweigh the privacy costs? Plus, China’s tight video game regulations and more

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  • Political fundraising’s new math
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    Where candidates receive their money may be as important as how much they make. Plus: Fallout from Facebook’s job discrimination settlement and “femtech” apps that help women control their health — while collecting a lot of personal data.

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  • Scrap metal in Long Beach, California, waits to be shipped to Asia for recycling.
    JOE KLAMAR/AFP/GettyImages

    For years, China used U.S. recyclables in its factories, but the country stopped buying foreign trash last year. Plus: Will Instagram’s in-app purchases threaten Amazon?

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  • Why younger people are getting Botox
    Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

    The number of 18- to 37-year-olds getting injectable fillers has grown more than 20 percent in the past five years. Plus: The latest on the FAA and Boeing, and the big business of pumping and dredging in flooded Nebraska.

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  • Lilly Singh speaks on stage during the 2018 WE Day Toronto Show in September.
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    NBC has turned to Canadian YouTube sensation Lilly Singh to replace Carson Daly. We look at what that means. Plus: Solar is roaring back amid barriers from the Trump administration, and consumer confidence is up 

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  • Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after a press conference following a special meeting of the European Council to endorse the draft Brexit withdrawal agreement on Nov. 25, 2018, in Brussels.
    EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images

    The UK Parliament just voted to delay Brexit. Today we look at how the 27 other European countries will fare whenever this thing finally goes through. Plus, a business of security robots and the housing market along the border.

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  • Executive producer Paula S. Apsell, Carnegie Mellon University professor and MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Luis von Ahn and MIT professor of robotics Rodney Brooks speak during the 'NOVA: Smartest Machine on Earth.
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    First, he helped teach computers how to read newspapers. Now, he's helping the rest of us learn a new language.

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  • Actress Lori Loughlin exits the courthouse after facing charges for allegedly conspiring to commit mail fraud and other charges in the college admissions scandal at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on April 3, 2019.
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    Will the latest scandal increase transparency? Plus: The latest on Boeing’s grounded planes and America’s persistent trucker shortage.

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  • At Boeing's Renton, Washington, factory, 737 Max airplanes are still coming off assembly lines at a record rate.
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    China and the European Union are keeping Boeing 737 Max 8 planes out of the sky, but what about the U.S.? Plus, unintended consequences of a no-deal Brexit and the ’80s software that’s helping run America’s cities.

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