Stan Alcorn
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SHORT BIO
Stan Alcorn is a reporter based in New York City. In addition to his work for Marketplace, he has reported for Fast Company, WNYC and NPR.
Latest Stories (159)
Riding the oil price roller coaster in New Mexico
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Stan Alcorn
May 11, 2015
Businesses in Southeast New Mexico feel the impact of oil prices.
Nasdaq experiments with the Bitcoin blockchain
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Stan Alcorn
May 11, 2015
The traded commodity becomes the stock exchange itself.
An "Empire" trend for TV ad buyers
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Stan Alcorn
May 11, 2015
"Empire" was the breakout hit of the season—with big audiences and fewer ads.
How Western Union and MoneyGram dominate remittances
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Stan Alcorn
May 7, 2015
It takes a lot of manpower to send money across borders.
The downside to being a 'CEO candidate'
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Stan Alcorn
May 4, 2015
We look at the political peril that comes with a business record.
Why "landmen" don't benefit from low gas prices
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Stan Alcorn
May 4, 2015
The people who oil companies pay to get the rights to drill for oil lose out.
Inside the weird world of podcast advertising
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Stan Alcorn
May 1, 2015
We listened to all of the top 100 podcasts. Here's what we found.
The complicated formula — and incentives — behind CEO pay
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Stan Alcorn
Apr 24, 2015
What's the best way to pay a CEO?
The stakes of the failing Comcast-Time Warner merger
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Stan Alcorn
Apr 23, 2015
It appears the Time-Warner Comcast merger may be on its deathbed.
Why it's hard to tell good monopolies from bad
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Stan Alcorn
and Molly Wood
Apr 15, 2015
The European Union has brought an antitrust case against Google.