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Alex Schroeder

"Marketplace Morning Report" Producer

Alex is a producer for the “Marketplace Morning Report.” He's based in Queens, New York. Alex joined Marketplace in 2020, working as MMR's digital producer. After a little over a year, he became the show's overnight producer, getting up far before the crack of dawn to put together the day's newscasts with the host and team. Now, he works daylight hours, preparing interviews for the following morning and producing long-term specials and series. Before Marketplace, Alex worked on several national public radio shows produced out of WBUR in Boston. He was both a radio and digital producer with “On Point,” “Here & Now” and “Only a Game.” Alex also worked at The Boston Globe after graduating from Tufts University. Alex's interests outside of work tend to fall into one of two categories: film or soccer. (Come on Arsenal!) He’s always looking for ways to cover the economics of entertainment and sports on the “Marketplace Morning Report.”

Latest from Alex Schroeder

  • A cannabis tour member rolls a joint as the tour group makes a stop to smoke marijuana, on a cannabis tour organized by L.A.-based Green Tours, January 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
    ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

    China’s new stock market soars. Corruption allegations threatened Puerto Rico’s economy. The legal cannabis industry might finally be able to access the banking system.

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  • A gong is seen during the listing ceremony of the first batch of companies on the SSE STAR Market at Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) on July 22, 2019 in Shanghai, China.
    VCG/VCG via Getty Images

    Tensions in the Persian Gulf send crude prices higher. A Nasdaq-style stock board launches in Shanghai. India blasts off on its second moon mission in more than a decade.

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  • Jul 19, 2019

    Comic-Con turns 50

    A cosplayer makes her way to the convention center during Comic-Con in San Diego, California, on Thursday.
    Photo by Chris Delmas/AFP

    Will interest rates be cut more than the Fed is letting on? The new Toys R Us stores won’t be so much about toys per se. Comic-Con has come a long way from its humble, nerdy beginnings.

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  • Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has plans to send people to the moon.
    Blue Origin

    Trump floats a new head for the Labor Dept. “The Lion King” revives a massive franchise. Private companies are shooting for the moon.

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  • Ukrainian activists from different nationalist parties hold posters and flags as they take part at a rally in February. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

    Brewer AB InBev sells its Australian division. Ukrainian politicians use fish and frozen pizza to tempt voters. We celebrate 50 years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

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  • Fewer than half of U.S. workers use their vacation days, a U.S. Travel Association survey says. Above, tourists sunbathe on the Magaluf beach in Mallorca.
    David Ramos/Getty Images

    Obamacare’s “Cadillac tax” is gone. Does the Fed really need to cut interest rates at this point? A manager explains why Americans don’t take their vacation.

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  • A man prays as Muslim pilgrims partake in the symbolic stoning of the devil at the Jamarat Bridge in Mina, near Mecca, which marks the final major rite of the Hajj on August 22, 2018.
    AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

    Home sales to foreign buyers fall. Voting on raising the federal minimum wage. Some Muslim leaders call for a boycott of the religious pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

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  • A wine cellar in Vevey, Switzerland. (Photo by Prisma by Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    Interest rate cuts in Asia. Netflix goes for growth overseas. The Swiss are famous for chocolate and cheese. What about wine?

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  • South LA resident Olympia Auset started a produce stand three years ago and now wants to expand into a physical store.
    John F. Peters

    Summer gives way to stable markets. A look at the systemic problem of low African-American homeownership. An activist is opening up her own healthy grocery store where there is none.

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  • Democratic Senator and presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, wipes sweat from his face as he greets supporters after a speech at a packed rally inside the gymnasium at Clinton College, a historically black college, before a rally in Rock Hill, SC on June, 23 2019.
    LOGAN CYRUS/AFP/Getty Images

    The WTO rules against both the U.S. and China over trade. All this hot weather is cutting into productivity. Sotheby’s caters to sneaker heads.

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