Jason Margolis

PRI's The World

At PRI's The World, Jason Margolis focuses primarily on stories about global business and economics. He has also covered topics including US foreign policy and politics, climate change, agriculture, and immigration reform. He began working at The World full time in 2006, and since then has reported from more than 20 countries and 30 US states, including the top of a rickety tower 150 feet above the Panamanian jungle, an abandoned Ukrainian town near Chernobyl, and shops and restaurants along the Texas-Mexico border.

Margolis has also been a reporter with KQED Public Radio in its Sacramento bureau, The Seattle Times newspaper, MarketWatch in San Francisco, and NPR’s business desk. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in history from UCLA.