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Paddy Hirsch
Senior Editor, Marketplace
Paddy Hirsch started in radio (and journalism) as a part-time newsreader at Tay FM, a pop music station in Dundee, Scotland. A brief stint at BBC Radio Scotland in Glasgow was followed by work at the Hong Kong Standard, the South China Morning Post and CNBC Asia in Hong Kong.
He then spent time in Sarajevo working as a consultant to the Open Broadcast Network in Sarajevo, and in Hanoi as the editor of the Vietnam Economic Times. A year (or thereabouts) in New York, as one of Institutional Investor Newsletters’ managing editors, was followed by a year in Los Angeles as senior editor of doomed dot-com Direct Stock Market.
He jumped that ship the week before it sank, and landed at Leveraged Commentary and Data, a corporate finance newswire owned by Standard & Poor's. Marketplace rescued him from a life covering the loan market six years later, in May 2007.
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Marketplace Confessional
"I disagree with Diana Nyad, who told Bob Moon today that Americans are not interested in Wimbledon because there are so few Americans playing. I love watching tennis, no matter who is playing. I have watched tennis for years, but the networks toy with us, creating drama rather than showing the match. Oftentimes, televised matches end precisely when the allotted time expires, even if they have to cut and splice. When they don't, as happened in a Nadal match last weekend, we were left hanging at the end of two sets, as NBC switched to women's golf. I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't switch to MSNBC as was suggested. It's enough to make me turn off the TV and read about the matches online."
