Monica Nickelsburg
Labor & Economy Reporter
About
Monica Nickelsburg is an economy reporter covering labor issues, the changing nature of work, the rise and fall of industries, technology trends, and workplace equity. She has extensive experience covering Amazon, Microsoft, and other major players re-shaping the Seattle region.
Monica spent six years covering the intersection of technology and public policy as GeekWire’s civic editor. As a freelancer, she’s covered food and sustainability for The Food and Environment Reporting Network, Civil Eats, Grist, and others. Before moving to Seattle, Monica worked as a digital producer for The Week and interned for NBC, The Daily Beast, and Forbes. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in Journalism and History.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Technology
Seattle startup behind Amazon gift guides on your feed just raised $20 million
Seattle startup Levanta, which connects Amazon sellers with influencers on social media, just secured $20 million in funding to grow its platform.
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Business
As strike ends, layoffs begin at Boeing
Boeing began notifying employees of layoffs Wednesday as it seeks to reduce its roughly 170,000-strong workforce by 10%.
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If free trade isn't free, what's next for Washington's economy?
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Politics
Jeff Bezos, other tech leaders congratulate Trump on ‘extraordinary political comeback’
Gone are the days when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joked about sending Donald Trump to the moon on a rocket to keep him out of the White House.
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Can buildings learn?
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Economy
Boeing, my dad, and Airplane Economics 101
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The risky business of airplanes
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Politics
Seattle is minting millionaires by the thousands
About 1 in every 14 Seattleites are millionaires, making it second only to the Bay Area for “millionaire density.”
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Economy
Why free money makes you more likely to get a job
Guaranteed basic income is an anti-poverty policy gaining traction in Washington cities. Tacoma just started its second basic income pilot, on the heels of a separate King County experiment. KUOW’s economy podcast, Booming, sat down with Natalie Foster, the architect of more than 130 basic income pilots across the country to understand a surprising finding from King County’s basic income experiment, and what it means for the policy more broadly.
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Environment
Microsoft’s carbon emissions surge despite goal of becoming ‘carbon negative’ by 2030
Microsoft latest sustainability report card, released Wednesday, reveals a sobering reality: the artificial intelligence revolution is undercutting the tech industry’s efforts to decarbonize.