Whizy Kim
Senior Reporter
Whizy Kim is a senior reporter at Vox covering wealth, economic inequality, and consumer trends. She writes about how powerful and wealthy individuals and corporations shape the politics and practices that affect the way we live. She has reported on everything from Jeff Bezos’s philanthropy to how inflation affects prices at the grocery store to Elon Musk’s disillusioned fandom. Her work unpacks hidden-in-plain-sight facets of the economy and asks: Who’s left holding the bag? Before joining Vox, Whizy was a senior writer at Refinery29, covering such wide-ranging topics as workplace burnout, student debt, the billionaire space race, and identity theft.
Latest articles by Whizy Kim
The strange ways we do (and don’t) consume glizzies.
The glitzy campaign, featuring stars like Patrick Mahomes, Simone Biles, and Travis Kelce, is part of an aggressive effort to fix its deep-seated problems.
Why every store wants to give you something for (almost) nothing.
Target and Walmart are talking about their price cuts. How big of a deal is it?
We can’t just blame Ticketmaster and scalpers.
Is a new age of digital offshoring coming?
Experts and whistleblowers testified before Congress in April. Now, a second whistleblower is dead.
How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.
Amid delivery discourse, a new report claims to shed some light on DoorDash’s delivery fees.
What the National Association of Realtors settlement means for buyers and sellers.