Nova Safo
Reporter and Host, MarketplaceNova Safo is a senior reporter at Marketplace covering breaking news and how the pandemic has affected the economy, business and personal finances. In addition, he is a lead voice for "Marketplace Minute," a 60-second update that highlights the most important stories of the day about business and the economy.
Nova has worked with Marketplace since 2014 and officially joined the newsroom in 2020. Before that, he was a Chicago-based correspondent for the international news wire service Agence France-Presse covering Middle America. Nova’s more than 20 years of experience in journalism also took him to CNN Radio, NPR and Yahoo News, among other outlets.
Nova first stepped foot in a radio station as a preschooler when his mom, Zabel, was a news broadcaster in Yerevan, Armenia. Nova received a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California, graduating with honors. He currently splits his time between Central California and Los Angeles, where he broadcasts out of Marketplace's headquarters in downtown LA.
-
Some of Hollywood's most famous movie sets are in ruins after Sunday's huge fire at Universal Studios. The fire burned for more than 12 hours.
-
The WB and UPN broadcast networks will merge this fall into the CW Network -- a change that could signal the end for many of UPN's black-oriented programs.
-
At Sunday night's Emmy awards, the retired sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond won for best comedy series and new hit Lost won for best drama.
-
In a bid to stop the sale of bootleg DVDs, Los Angeles police, backed by the film industry, have placed surveillance cameras in Santee Alley, a block of L.A.'s Fashion District that a movie honcho calls "one of the biggest pirate havens on the West Coast." The ACLU objects. -
At the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, a gaggle of fans wait for the final episode of the six-picture Star Wars saga. It won't open until midnight May 19, but fans have been there for weeks. The line has a Web site and strict rules for joining the lineup.
