Matt Berger is the digital director at Marketplace and has worked as a journalist and digital producer for over a decade in the areas of business, technology and arts and lifestyle.

Berger started his journalism career as a daily newspaper reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the height of the tech boom in 2000, he got a job in downtown San Francisco covering high tech and venture capital for the Silicon Valley magazine Upside and its website. When Upside went downside in 2001 dot-com bubble, Berger moved a few blocks down Market Street as a technology correspondent for a global news wire service operated by magazine and Internet publisher IDG.

Prior to joining Marketplace in 2010, Berger was the executive producer for interactive at The Taunton Press, a publisher of lifestyle magazines, books, and digital products.

Berger lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two kids, and commutes to work 15 miles a day by bike.

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What the federal budget and your household budget have in common

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Matt Berger
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Apr 10, 2013
The White House unveiled its proposed 2014 federal budget Wednesday and it has at least one thing in common with your household budget: It's influenced by politics.
Posted In: federal budget
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What would your city look like with Beijing's air? A smog simulator

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Matt Berger
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Feb 8, 2013
Intense air pollution in Beijing last month forced children and the elderly indoors and obscured visibility so bad that residents say they couldn't see buildings down the street. We imagine what would other cities might look like with Beijing-quality air.
Posted In: air pollution, air quality, smog
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America Underwater: The mortgage crisis in data

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Matt Berger
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Feb 8, 2013
This week, Marketplace Money and The New York Times team up to tell the story of home ownership in America three years after the housing bubble. View our interactive map and listen to our special podcast.
Posted In: Housing, Marketplace Maps, mortgage, underwater mortgage
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One fracking minute: an animated explainer on hydraulic fracturing

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Scott Tong
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Dec 7, 2012
There's an oil and gas boom in North America thanks to an innovation known as hydraulic fracturing that extracts natural gas and oil from shale rock deep underground. Here's how it works.
Posted In: fracking, Oil
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Nobel Prize in Economics: A history of winners

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Nancy Farghalli
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Oct 15, 2012
It's best known as the Nobel Prize for Economics, but the official name of the award handed out today for the 44th time is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. A list of past winners.
Posted In: Economics, Nobel Prize
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A visual history of the U.S. workforce, 1970 to 2012

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Matt Berger
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Oct 11, 2012
The number of employed Americans has nearly doubled over the past 30 years, but so has the number of people not in the workforce. Watch the U.S. employment picture change with our animated GIF.
Posted In: Unemployment, bureau of labor statistics
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'Sesame Street' and the 99%

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Shereen Marisol Meraji
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Oct 4, 2012
The puppet cast of the children's TV show "Sesame Street" represents a cross section of Americans -- from the orphan child Big Bird to the independently wealthy Bert and Ernie to the homeless Oscar the Grouch.
Posted In: Sesame Street
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Google's (fictitious) response to Apple CEO Tim Cook's apology letter

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Matt Berger
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Sep 28, 2012
Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook, posted a letter of apology to customers, in response to growing criticism over the Maps app in Apple’s new operating system. We imagine how Google co-founder Sergey Brin might have responded.
Posted In: apple, iPhone, maps
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Marketplace Radio: The Infinite Playlist on Slacker Radio

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Matt Berger
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Jul 25, 2012
Ever wish you could click play and never stop listening to Marketplace? Now you can. Tune in for our brand new infinite listening experience on Slacker Radio.
Posted In: app
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Commuter Nation: How America gets to work

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Matt Berger
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Jul 13, 2012
The majority of Americans still drive alone in a car to and from work. But in cities and states across the nation, the commuter population is turning to carpools, public transportation, walking, and bikes.
Posted In: commute, transporation

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