Jeff Tyler

Reporter, Marketplace

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Jeff Tyler is a former reporter for Marketplace’s Los Angeles bureau and reported on issues related to immigration and Latin America.

Tyler began his career at Marketplace producing and editing stories and in 2000 his desire to report allowed him to move to the other side of the microphone becoming a foreign correspondent for the program. Tyler admits that working for Marketplace has given him a crash course in world economics.

His work has taken him from Argentina and Brazil to Indonesia and Pakistan. A California native, Tyler is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. After college, he worked for a travel guide company, writing a guide for Honduras and editing a travel guide for Mexico.

Latest Stories (645)

As the marijuana business grows, is there room for the little guy?

Sep 20, 2016
Some investors see legalized cannabis as a hot market in the future.
Cannabis plants grow in a medical facility greenhouse. This November, nine states will consider ballot measures related to marijuana.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images

In Los Angeles, progress in getting vets into housing

May 17, 2016
The county reduced the number of homeless vets living on the streets by 44 percent.
 A homeless person covers up on a bus stop bench before dawn October 12, 2007 in downtown Los Angeles, California. 
David McNew/Getty Images

San Diego taps a bottomless well: the Pacific Ocean

May 17, 2016
A new desalination plant supplies 10 percent of arid San Diego's water.
The site of the Carlsbad desalination plant.
Bovlb/Wikimedia Commons

Homelessness is on the rise in LA and it's hitting women the hardest

May 11, 2016
Statistics show that there are more than 14,000 homeless women in Los Angeles County
A homeless woman packs up her belongings after a night sleeping on the street in Los Angeles.
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

When you can see the forest for the healthcare

Jan 12, 2016
Two pilot programs in Oregon are experimenting with carbon markets.

Family-owned forest land may soon change hands

Jan 11, 2016
Much of U.S. forests are owned by private families, many of whom are senior citizens.

With big storms on way, a search for homeless in danger

Nov 18, 2015
Thousands of homeless people in Los Angeles County are camping out instead of going to shelter. Hundreds are camping in river channels.

A city earns revenue from not cutting its timberland

Nov 12, 2015
A trust selling carbon credits pays Astoria, Oregon, to harvest less timber.

A rural town hates the coming of high-speed trains

Jul 29, 2015
Tiny Acton, California, fears railway will bring water and noise pollution.

A desert city welcomes California's high-speed train

Jul 27, 2015
California's high-speed rail project is controversial because of its cost, but Palmdale is looking forward to bullet trains.