Manoush Zomorodi is a journalist, podcast host and author. She was the host of the WNYC podcast Note to Self, which explores humans' relationship with technology through conversations with listeners and experts. In 2018, Zomorodi quit WNYC to start a media company, Stable Genius Productions, with her colleague Jen Poyant. The process of starting their company is documented in the podcast ZigZag, which is also their first production. As of March 2020, she is the host of NPR's TED Radio Hour. Early life Zomorodi, who is of part Iranian descent, was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey and studied English and Fine Arts at Georgetown University. She began her career as a reporter and producer at Thomson Reuters and BBC News. During this time, she lived in Berlin for two years. She is married to television reporter Josh Robin, with whom she has two children. 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 candid 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 is initially being broadcast as part of the previously established Radiotopia network. After