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Amy Scott

Host & Senior Correspondent, Housing

Amy Scott is the host of “How We Survive,” Marketplace's climate solutions podcast, and a senior correspondent covering housing, climate and the economy. She is also a frequent guest host of Marketplace programs. Since 2001, Amy has held many roles at Marketplace and covered many beats, from the culture of Wall Street to education and housing. Her reporting has taken her to every region of the country as well as Egypt, Dubai and Germany.  Her 2015 documentary film, “Oyler,” about a Cincinnati public school fighting to break the cycle of poverty in its traditionally urban Appalachian neighborhood, has screened at film festivals internationally and was broadcast on public television in 2016. She's currently at work on a film about a carpenter's mission to transform an abandoned block in west Baltimore into a community of Black women homeowners. Amy has won several awards for her reporting, including a SABEW Best in Business podcast award in 2023, Gracie awards for outstanding radio series in 2013 and 2014 and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting in 2012. Before joining Marketplace, Amy worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run. These days she's based in Baltimore.

Latest from Amy Scott

  • Oct 5, 2008

    Pittsburgh, PA

    I guess you did lose the bet, Tess. You owe me a beer in St. Louis. Though looking at that map, I should really buy you one for all the extra…

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  • Oct 4, 2008

    Life on the road

    Okay, Tess. We might have to have a glamor-off. How's this for a motel room studio?…

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  • For a group of seniors at a Panera in Charlotte, North Carolina, the financial bailout is hot on the talk menu. Amy Scott sat in on one of their discussions and got an earful for the latest in our Road to Ruin series.

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  • Hi, Tess! Sorry to be out of touch….

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  • Marketplace's financial road trip continues this morning in Charlotte, N.C., where New York City Bureau Chief Amy Scott explores the wide effects Citigroup's purchase of Wachovia's banking business has on the city.

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  • Hiya, Tess, and readers. I think I'm ready!…

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  • The Treasury Department says it's setting aside up to $50 billion to protect investors in money market mutual funds. Once considered virtually as safe as cash, we learned this week they aren't. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Money market mutual funds looked to be losing their "good as cash" reputation, so the government stepped in to protect investors. Host Tess Vigeland asks Marketplace's Amy Scott if the move is enough.

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  • Barclays is already on Wall Street with its small bank Barclays Capital, but chief executive John Varley said he wanted more. Buying key Lehman assets would do the trick. Amy Scott reports.

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  • Shares in the insurance conglomerate AIG took another dive amid rumors that the Fed's working on some kind of loan package. Meanwhile, mighty Goldman Sachs reported its biggest quarterly drop since it went public. Amy Scott has the roundup.

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