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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

  • Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill after witnesses failed to show up for closed door testimony during the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC on November 4, 2019.
    ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

    How TV networks might still cash in on ads during impeachment proceedings. Singles Day sales hit $8 billion in 68 seconds. Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years later.

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  • A screen shows the gross merchandise volume, a measure of sales, after 1 minute 36 seconds of Singles Day sales, as it reaches about 1,429,510,821 USD in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province early on November 11, 2019.
    AFP via Getty Images

    China’s Alibaba rakes in tens of billions on the world’s biggest online shopping day. Australia’s worst wildfires in a decade head towards Sydney. Africa’s first commercial gene bank launches in Nigeria.

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  • Taking success back to school
    Notre Dame

    A possible U.S.-China trade is driving up interest rates. Spain is holding yet another election. Older people who’ve had success in the real world are heading back to school.

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  • A neon sign welcomes people to Reno, Nevada.
    Keystone/Getty Images

    Chinese consumers might shun American good on the biggest shopping day of the year, and it’s not Black Friday. Electric trucks take over a former GM plant. How Reno became a tech hub.

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  • Lord Mayor Elect William Russell rides in the State Coach drawn by six shire horses during an early morning dawn rehearsal
    Getty Images

    London’s new Lord Mayor. Huge Brazilian oil fields for sale that almost no one wants to buy. How demonetization is impacting small business in India.

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  • A worker walks in front of pipes which lie stacked at the Nord Stream 2 facility at Mukran on Ruegen Islandon October 19, 2017 in Sassnitz, Germany.
    Carsten Koall/Getty Images

    There might be a “mini” deal on U.S.-China tariffs. Germany keeps pushing the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. A debrief on Saudi oil giant Aramco’s massive, forthcoming IPO.

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  • The mouse still makes money.
    MN Chan/Getty Images

    Former Twitter employees are accused of spying. Disney’s theme parks continue to be huge moneymakers. Why the U.S. could benefit from a German-style investment injection.

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  • A pub in Kilkenny, Ireland
    Cleere’s Bar & Theatre

    Kilkenomics: an Irish festival where comedy meets economics. There’s progress in the U.S.-China trade war. A financial win for Australian women’s soccer.

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  • A UPS drone carries a cardboard box from CVS to a customer.
    UPS

    The U.S. and China could be softening on tariffs. The T-Mobile-Sprint merger is a go. The hunt for the president’s tax returns continues. CVS floats drone-delivered drugs.

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  • Can impeachment lead to a government shutdown?
    Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

    The president will have to sign spending bills to keep the government funded as impeachment proceedings move forward. Germany’s reunification could have lessons for closing the American wealth gap.

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