Donna Tam

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Donna Tam is the executive editor of Marketplace, overseeing the newsroom’s editors, reporters, producers, and hosts. She is invested in building on the legacy of Marketplace’s award-winning journalism to serve a new public media audience.

After joining Marketplace in 2016 as a digital editor, Donna led the digital team before stepping into the newsroom’s first bridging role: senior project manager, with a focus on connecting editorial initiatives to audience growth and revenue opportunities. She continued that work as director of on-demand, eventually leading the podcast, newsletter and social media teams. Her past life includes covering tech news at CNET and local news at daily newspapers.

Latest Stories (110)

Freelancers made an estimated $1 trillion last year

by Donna Tam and Mitchell Hartman

Oct 6, 2016

More people are choosing freelance work over full time jobs, according to the Freelancers Union.

A home office. The number of Americans choosing freelance work is growing, according to a study from the Freelancers Union.

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When 'Gilmore Girls' takes over your local coffee shop

by Donna Tam

Oct 5, 2016

The Netflix marketing push for the revived TV series shows how long a shelf life a show can have.

Brittany Jeng, 29, and Heather Bladt, 33, pose for a photo in front of a Luke’s sign displayed outside the Comoncy Cafe in Studio City, Calif. The pair waited in line for two hours at the popup event promoting the new “Gilmore Girls” series on Netflix.

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The tax terms you may hear a lot this week thanks to Trump

by Donna Tam

Oct 3, 2016

If you’re following the news around Donald Trump’s tax returns, you might want to brush up on your fiscal vocabulary.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a speech outlining his vision for tax reform at his skyscraper on Fifth Avenue on Sept. 28, 2015 in New York City.

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Is it evil? A year of email controversies

by Donna Tam

Sep 30, 2016

Private email servers, DNC emails, hacked Yahoo accounts — we take a look back at recent email drama and what it says about the technology.

An environmentalist dressed as a mock lobbyist holds a banner reading 'Recruting e-mail hackers' during the third day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Did Trump break the Cuba embargo?

by Donna Tam

Sep 29, 2016

A Newsweek investigation alleges the businessman and presidential candidate’s former company illegally did business in Cuba in the 1990s.

Cubans wave a U.S. and a Cuban flag at the Malecon waterfront as the first US-to-Cuba cruise ship to arrive in the island nation in decades glides into the port of Havana, on May 2, 2016.

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The “deep, dark secret” that changes how you shop for groceries

by Donna Tam

Sep 28, 2016

Food companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in shelving fees to get their products prime placement at your local store.

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Doctors are feeling burnt out, and that could be bad for patients

by Donna Tam

Sep 23, 2016

More than half of physicians say they have low morale, according to a new survey.

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Italy's infertility campaign seen as ignorant, racist and sexist

by Donna Tam

Sep 22, 2016

The country tries to back away from a flyer gone awry.

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What Brangelina can do for declining magazine sales

by Donna Tam

Sep 20, 2016

News of the celebrity couple’s divorce could give lifestyle weeklies a chance to compete with digital sites.

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Will a selfie drone help GoPro?

by Donna Tam

Sep 18, 2016

In the face of falling stock prices, the video cam company plans to release a drone.

Nick Woodman, founder and CEO of GoPro speaks during the company's initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange on June 26, 2014. The struggling company is expected to release a drone on Monday.

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