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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

  • Jul 11, 2019

    Band seeking visa

    West African rock band Tal National.
    Jason Creps

    The U.S. balks at France’s new tax on tech companies. There’s a small but fast uptick in inflation. “Extreme vetting” for visas is keeping some foreign musical acts out of the country.

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  • Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on July 10, 2019 in Washington, DC.
    Zach Gibson/Getty Images

    Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the “hot” job market is showing little heat. A defense contractor cancels plans to shut down a plant at Trump’s urging. A soon-to-be college graduate who is undocumented faces uncertain job prospects.

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  • South Korea's President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a meeting in Tokyo last May. (Photo: KAZUHIRO NOGI/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

    More trade trouble in Asia as Japan and South Korea argue over computer chips. Anger over France’s digital tax plans. A record fine linked to the opioid crisis.

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  • Cast members of NBC's comedy series "Friends"
    Warner Bros. Television

    The Fed chair all but confirms an interest rate cut. Boeing’s troubles show in its sales numbers. “Friends” goes from Netflix to AT&T’s new streaming service. The pitfalls of growing hemp on sovereign Native land.

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  • Jul 10, 2019

    Working 9 to 9

    A food delivery worker in Shanghai takes a rest. Chinese workers on average work 12 hours more per week than their American counterparts according to U.S. and China government statistics for May. Photo credit: Charles Zhang/Marketplace
    Charles Zhang/Marketplace

    Can changing zoning help with with housing crisis? African nations ready a new, massive trading bloc. Chinese tech workers push back against the grueling 72-hour work week as a matter of life and death.

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  • Kristen Stewart is held by Jodie Foster in a scene from the film 'Panic Room', 2002. (Photo by Columbia Pictures /Getty Images)

    The U.N. holds an emergency meeting over Tehran’s nuclear program. Brazil votes on pension reforms. Why panic rooms are the ultimate home luxury for today’s billionaires.

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  • Where are those prices in TV drug ads we were promised?
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    A judge blocks Trumps drug ad price rule. Will the Fed lower interest rates? How immigrants in the U.S. without authorization get healthcare.

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  • An employee of internet security company Kaspersky Lab has a microchip implanted in the area between his thumb and the index finger during a Kaspersky Lab press conference on biological, psychological and technological implications of microchip implants ahead of the opening of the 55th IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) electronics trade fair in Berlin on September 3, 2015.
    JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images

    Big spending deadlines are approaching in Congress. Bio-hacking is becoming big business. France opens a monument to monetary theory.

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  • U.S. technology companies will have to work out how to transfer data from Europe and comply with privacy rules.
    Omar Marques/Getty Images

    Facebook’s privacy headache grows. Why art collectors are borrowing against the value of their Picasso paintings. How the coffee industry is trying to go green.

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  • Jul 8, 2019

    Brew Hawaii

    Brew Hawaii
    jeremybrooks/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Deutsche Bank announces massive layoffs. Investors aren’t happy with the most recent, actually great jobs numbers. What happens when a “Hawaiian beer” is made somewhere else?

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