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Alex Schroeder

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

  • Commuters in a Hong Kong subway station wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus ahead of the Chinese New Year on Jan. 23.
    Vivek Prakash/AFP via Getty Images

    From the BBC World Service… Global markets are steady as speculation grows that coronavirus spread has peaked. Nissan sues former chairman Carlos Ghosn. Argentina starts crucial debt talks with the IMF.

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  • Cooks at Hugo’s restaurant in Houston, Texas, prepare for the lunch shift.
    Macie Kelly/Houston Public Media

    Despite relatively great job and trade numbers, many other factors are contributing to slower growth. Delinquencies are rising rapidly in the subprime auto loan sector. The restaurant industry looks to immigration reform to deal with a worker shortage.

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  • Ready, willing and disabled
    ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images

    The economic fallout inside and outside of China continues as the coronavirus spreads. Fed chair Jerome Powell will have a lot to talk about when he goes before Congress Wednesday. Employment remains elusive for many people with disabilities.

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  • South Korea's Black Eagles aerobatics team perform an aerial display during a preview at the Singapore Airshow at Changi exhibition center in Singapore on February 14, 2016.  The Singapore Airshow 2016 begins on February 16 to 21.   AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP / ROSLAN RAHMAN        (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Seventy companies have stayed away from the Singapore aviation industry event, but the show goes on. After two years of growth, global energy emissions remain unchanged. We hear what people think about tipping in Shanghai.

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  • Patients may like the sound of "Medicare-for-all," but for many of the hospitals and doctors who would treat them, it's a nonstarter. 
    JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

    Global supply chains around the world are getting hit hard by the coronavirus, including for the many Apple products made in China. A new study finds people nearing retirement fear they won’t be able to afford their health care.

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  • Wuhan virus workplace woes
    Oli Scarff/Getty Images

    What can we read into President’s new budget as we head closer to the election? The spreading coronavirus is starting to wreak havoc on the Chinese economy. How businesses are addressing worker safety and morale during the outbreak.

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  • TOPSHOT - A security guard stands outside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market where the coronavirus was detected in Wuhan on January 24, 2020 - The death toll in China's viral outbreak has risen to 25, with the number of confirmed cases also leaping to 830, the national health commission said. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

    The threat of coronavirus keeps many Chinese workplaces closed despite the end of the Lunar New Year holiday. Indian taxi company Ola launches in London today. South Korea’s “Parasite” becomes the first foreign language Best Picture winner at the Oscars.

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  • SAG-AFTRA Foundation President Courtney B. Vance speaks onstage during SAG-AFTRA Foundation's 4th Annual Patron of the Artists Awards at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 7, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California.
    Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images for Turner

    What’s the link between good weather and job creation? Senators make a bipartisan legislative push to compete against China’s Huawei. Plus, new SAG-AFTRA Foundation President Courtney B. Vance talks about diversity and his work helping struggling and out-of-work actors.

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  • Working 9 to (not quite) 5
    Jim Burress/Marketplace

    The job market is tight, but people aren’t working as many hours and are earning less. Credit Suisse’s CEO resigns amid a spying scandal. The coronavirus outbreak is having far-reaching economic effects outside of China.

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  • Ireland’s housing crisis could determine election
    Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images

    Housing looms large over Ireland’s Saturday election. Factories and pubs are being forced to close because of the coronavirus outbreak in China. One of the weirdest items in the Oscars gift bag is a urine collection device called Peezy.

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