Paddy Hirsch is a fiction and non-fiction author, journalist and economic commentator. He is the author of the Justice Flanagan series of historical thrillers, including ''The Devil's Half Mile'' and ''Hudson's Kill'', and of ''Man vs Markets, Economics Explained, Plain and Simple'', a lighthearted, illustrated book explaining the workings of the financial markets, published by HarperCollins. Hirsch is the editor of th
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Previously he was a Senior Producer at the

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production house

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, where he produced the weekend personal finance program Marketplace Money and produced and hosted the ''Marketplace Whiteboard'', a weekly video explainer covering the financial markets and the economy. ''Marketplace Whiteboard'' was a

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Honoree in 2009. Hirsch was editor of the

New York Bureau throughout the

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. In 2010, he was awarded a fellowship with the

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. He was a Webby Award nominee in 2009 and was a 2014 winner of the Edward R Murrow award for excellence in reporting.

Biography

Hirsch was born in

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, and grew up in Northern Ireland and

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. He joined

in March 2007. Previously, he worked as a senior editor for Leveraged Commentary & Data, a division of

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, and for ''Bank Letter'', a newsletter in the

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portfolio. He worked as the editor of the ''Vietnam Economic Times'' in 1998, and as a field producer at

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in Hong Kong between 1995 and 1997. Before becoming a journalist, he served as an officer in the

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from 1986 to 1995. He graduated top of his class from the

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, and was awarded the Sword of Honour. Hirsch attended the

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in the United Kingdom, and

Campbell College Campbell College located in Belfast, Northern Ireland and founded in 1894 comprises a preparatory school department (junior age) and a senior Northern Ireland 'Voluntary Grammar' school, the latter meaning, in terms of provision of education, a ...

in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

References

External links

American Public Media names Paddy Hirsch Senior Producer, Personal Finance, Marketplace

''Marketplace Whiteboard'' webpage

Leveraged Commentary & Data

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