Zomorodi began her career as a reporter and producer at
Thomson Reuters and BBC News. During this time, she lived in Berlin for two years.
Note to Self In September 2012, Zomorodi began hosting a new podcast at WNYC called
New Tech City. The name was changed in 2015 to
Note to Self. Zomorodi described the show as "the tech show about being Human". The podcast covered a range of topics ranging from
information overload and digital clutter, to
sexting, and the eavesdropping capabilities of our gadgets. In 2017, Zomorodi teamed up with
ProPublica to launch "Breaking the Black Box", an investigation into
Facebook's collection of their users' personal data. This was followed by "The Privacy Paradox", a five-part podcast and audience engagement series that aimed to help Facebook users to take control of their own data. This project won a
Webby Award in the Podcasts & Digital Audio category in 2018. It was named Best Tech Podcast of 2017 by the Academy of Podcasters.
Stable Genius Productions In 2018, Zomorodi quit WNYC, along with Jen Poyant, Executive Producer for
Note to Self. The two of them started a media company called "Stable Genius Productions", a reference to a tweet by President Donald Trump. The first project by the new company was a documentary podcast
ZigZag, which documented the early days of the company itself. The podcast covers their attempts to obtain funding for their company, ideas for new projects, and discussions by both co-founders about the
financial risk they were taking, and the effect of running the startup on their personal lives. The podcast was initially broadcast as part of the
Radiotopia network. After their initial funding fell through, Zomorodi and Poyant partnered with Civil, a marketplace that used
blockchain technology to distribute news With
COVID-19 shutting down advertising funding in early 2020, Stable Genius Productions did not have the financial runway to continue producing the podcast as a partnership.
TED Radio Hour Zomorodi was named the host of the
TED Radio Hour in November 2019. She has continued her approach of engaging with audience members to gather data about the impact of technology on their lifestyles through projects like "Body Electric", which studied how taking movement breaks affect peoples' bodies.
Other work Zomorodi is the author of the books
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self and
Camera Ready: How to Present Your Best Self and Ideas On Air and Online. She also hosted the fourth and fifth seasons of the
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