David Brancaccio is the host of Marketplace Tech Report.

In the early 1990s, Brancaccio was Marketplace’s European correspondent based in London, and hosted Marketplace from 1993 to 2003.  He co-anchored the PBS television news magazine program NOW with journalist Bill Moyers from 2003 to 2005, before taking over as the program’s solo anchor in 2005.  He also hosted public television’s California Connected and hosted a series of long-form public radio documentaries on international affairs produced by the Stanley Foundation. He served as special correspondent for Marketplace’s Economy 4.0 series, which focused on in-depth reporting on ways to make the economy better serve more people.

Brancaccio specializes in telling stories important to our economy and our democracy through the eyes of the real people who live in the cross hairs of crucial issues. His accessible yet authoritative approach to investigative reporting and in-depth interviewing earned his work the highest honors in broadcast journalism, including the Peabody, the Columbia-duPont, the Emmy, and the Walter Cronkite awards.

A new version of Brancaccio's public television special about Main Street as an engine of economic innovation called Fixing the Future will soon be a feature-length documentary.  He is author of a book about Americans applying their personal values to their money, entitled Squandering Aimlessly.  

Brancaccio has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and a master's degree in journalism from Stanford University.  He has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, and BBC television and his newspaper work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, and Britain’s The Guardian.

Brancaccio is an avid bicyclist and photographer and a very proud father of three.

 

Features By David Brancaccio

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A CES 2013 preview from a startup, and a mysterious Google security breach

The CEO of a Boulder, Colorado startup previews the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and Google.com suffers an 18-month security breach from a mysterious source.
Posted In: CES, Consumer Electronics Show, Google, online security
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Robots that play like Monk, and growth in the online job market

Elance, a company that uses the web to fix up freelancers, forecasts that one out of four college students in 2013 will earn money through online jobs. Researchers at Georgie Tech are working to create a robot that will improvise music along with humans.
Posted In: working online, robots, Music
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Rules to live by...on your smartphone

Talking to the mom who gave her teenage son an 18-point contract along with his new iPhone, with guidelines like 'don't use it to deceive others.'
Posted In: polaroid, smartphone, Fotobar, parenting
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Paul Krugman on tech's great divergence

Economist Paul Krugman talks about a new direction in 'the technology universe' that has taken shape over the last decade.
Posted In: Paul Krugman, Robots Ate My Job, wages, robots
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Happy New Year: A proposed end to 'trolling' and your life digitally archived

Editor of Mashable Lance Ulanoff declares the end of online anonymous bullying, and imagining a digital archive of all our internet activity.
Posted In: trolling, online bullying, Internet Archive, Twitter
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Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on surviving the rise of the machines

One of the co-creators of Skype thinks we may be in trouble if we don't start planning for a possible real life "Terminator" plot.
Posted In: skype, Terminator, robots
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Merry Christmas! Now how do you work your new TV?

Many people on Christmas day are turning on their new gadgets, but what if once you power up your new 'smart' television, it looks all...weird?
Posted In: televisions, soap opera effect, motion-smoothing, tv
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A gaming "ceasefire" for Newtown

A man asks fellow gamers to lay down their digital weapons in the wake of Newtown, and a new report from Pew's Excellence in Journalism project looks at why reaction to this shooting was different.
Posted In: Newtown, violence, gaming, video games
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Sen. Al Franken's Location Privacy Protection Act

Senator Al Franken is pushing for more privacy options when it comes to location data.
Posted In: geolocation, stalking, smartphones, mobile apps
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Instagram's privacy backlash, and the dirty secret of data caps

A negative response to Instagram’s privacy setting changes, and a paper that calls the reasoning behind service provider data caps into question.
Posted In: data plans, internet access, instagram, privacy

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