Patrick "Paddy" Hirsch
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Paddy Hirsch
United States Fellow
paddyh@stanford.edu
senior editor
Marketplace, American Public Media
Los Angeles, California
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Project: An archive of explainers to help people understand financial news. Relying on a
community of contributors to gather open-source content, and exploring content creation
partnerships with ProPublica and the University of Southern California. Content providers
and consumers, who would rate the explainers, would maintain the site.
Hirsch was born in Weymouth, England, and raised in Ireland. He has a bachelor’s degree in
French and international studies from the University of Warwick. From 1990 to 1995, he was an
officer in the Royal Marines, receiving the Sword of Honor from the Commando Training Center.
He served as a field commander and later as Intelligence Officer in the Gulf War. He entered journalism
with an internship at the BBC in Scotland. He became a field producer for CNBC in Hong
Kong and later was a consultant to the Open Broadcast Network in Bosnia. He has been an editor
for Direct Capital Markets, Institutional Investor Newsletters, and the Vietnam Economic Times.
As senior editor at Marketplace, he oversees reporters in New York, Portland and Los Angeles and
is well known for “Whiteboard,” his video tutorials on financial and economic terminology.
