Manoush Zomorodi
Journalist, podcast host and author
Manoush Zomorodi is a journalist and host of NPR's TED Radio Hour. She wrote Bored and Brilliant, a book about the attention economy.
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About Manoush Zomorodi
Manoush Zomorodi is a journalist, podcast host and author. She was born in New York City and lives there with her family. She hosted Note to Self, a podcast about people's relationship with technology, which the Academy of Podcasters named the top tech podcast of 2017. She left WNYC in 2018 and started a media company, Stable Genius Productions, together with colleague Jen Poyant. Their first production, the podcast ZigZag, documents how they started the company. Since March 2020 she has hosted NPR's TED Radio Hour. Bored and Brilliant, her first book, came out in 2017, and she also gave a TED talk on the attention economy. She has won two Gracie Awards for Best Radio Host, and Fast Company listed her in its 2018 round-up of the most creative people in business.