Alina Selyukh Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR.
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Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR, where she covers retail, low-wage work, big brands and other aspects of the consumer economy. Her work has been recognized by the Gracie Awards, the National Headliner Award and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Before joining NPR in 2015, Selyukh spent five years at Reuters, where she covered tech, telecom and cybersecurity policy, campaign finance during the 2012 election cycle, health care policy and the Food and Drug Administration, and a bit of financial markets and IPOs.

Previously, Selyukh reported for CNN in Moscow, ABC News in Nebraska, and NationalJournal.com in Washington, D.C. At her alma mater, she helped in the production of a documentary for NET Television, Nebraska's PBS station. Selyukh began her career in journalism at age 13, freelancing for a local TV station and several newspapers in her home town of Samara in Russia.

She received a bachelor's degree in broadcasting, news-editorial and political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Tuesday

Grocery delivery app Instacart goes public

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Friday

Rich Snyder, who retired as the fire marshal of Sierra Madre, Calif., now works for Allied Disaster Defense, a California company that hardens homes against wildfire. One strategy is covering air vents with ember-blocking mesh. Liz Baker/NPR hide caption

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Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started

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Wednesday

Tuesday

Twinkies are sold — J.M. Smucker scoops up Hostess Brands for $5.6 billion

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Monday

Hostess Brands, best known for its Twinkies, is being bought by jelly-maker J.M. Smucker. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption

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Twinkies are sold! J.M. Smucker scoops up Hostess Brands for $5.6 billion

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Thursday

The new business of wildfire preparedness could grow to be massive

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Tuesday

Bed Bath & Beyond is back from the dead with Overstock.com relaunch

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Saturday

The numbers are in and the economy is booming. Thank summer travel, high spending and the Barbie bump (Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images) Ian Waldie/Getty Images hide caption

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What recession? It's a summer of splurging, profits and girl power

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Friday

American companies report surprisingly high spending from shoppers despite inflation

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Wednesday

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A pedestrian walks by REI's flagship store in New York, where last year workers formed the company's first union. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

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REI fostered a progressive reputation. Then its workers began to unionize

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Wednesday

Wednesday

Should brands take positions on social or political issues?

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Wednesday

The FTC sues Amazon over hard-to-cancel Prime memberships

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Thursday

Tupperware is now selling some products at Target, but it still makes most of its money through individual sellers. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption

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Tupperware once changed women's lives. Now it struggles to survive

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Wednesday

Yazmin Lopez, here at home in Madison, Wis., first learned about credit scores from a personal finance book she picked up at Goodwill a few years after coming to the U.S. as a teenager. Lianne Milton for NPR hide caption

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Welcome to America! Now learn to be in debt

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Tuesday

America's debt culture is a complicated journey for some immigrants

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Monday

Shoppers stand outside a Bed Bath & Beyond store in New Jersey. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption

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Bed Bath & the great Beyond: How the home goods giant went bankrupt

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