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Jeremy Hobson

Former Host, Marketplace Morning Report

Jeremy Hobson is the former host of  Marketplace Morning Report. Hobson started at Marketplace in 2007 as a reporter based in Washington, D.C.  He later covered Wall Street and its impact on ordinary Americans for Marketplace, based in the New York City bureau. He started reporting from New York one week before Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.  Hobson hosted Marketplace Morning Report from 2011 through 2013. Before joining Marketplace, Hobson frequently found himself in the right place at the right time when it came to big stories: He was calling Florida precincts for NPR’s 2000 election coverage, he was working for Boston’s WBUR during the Boston Catholic Church Sex Abuse scandal, and he was an intern for NPR’s Guy Raz in Turkey at the start of the Iraq War. In addition to those roles, Hobson has worked as producer for NPR’s All Things Considered, Day to Day and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! He has also worked as a host and reporter for public radio stations WILL Urbana, WCAI Cape Cod and WRNI Providence. Hobson’s radio career began in earnest at the age of nine when he started contributing to a program called Treehouse Radio.  Hobson is a graduate of Boston University and the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. He lives in New York and enjoys hiking, traveling and extremely spicy foods.

Latest from Jeremy Hobson

  • Digital music sales surpass CD and vinyl
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    Official music industry sales numbers for the year of 2011 are out this week, and for the first time, digital sales are taking up the majority of the market.

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  • The Dodgers have a new owner. The troubled franchise will be bought up by a group of investors, Magic Johnson among them.
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    The Dodgers have a new owner. The troubled franchise will be bought up by a group of investors, Magic Johnson among them.

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  • A boy jumps with his skateboard during a sunny day on March 17, 2012 as unusually warm temperatures hit Prague.
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    The father of what we know as the mass-produced skateboard passed away at age 81. How has the industry grown since he first began to churn out boards?

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  • According to Bloomberg Markets Magazine, private investors are buying up foreclosed properties by the bushel and renting them out at a profit.

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  • China appears to be on the verge of an economic slowdown, and that has investors around the globe concerned.

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  • What drives the Republican presidential candidate, and what's more important than the simple fact that he has wealthy friends.

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  • Oil prices are slightly lower this morning in overseas trading, around $124 a barrel, but that is still very high. And those high oil prices are leading to high gas prices which are starting to really worry some economists who are concerned about our recovery and whether or not it could be derailed.

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  • Soda is displayed in a market in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Soda sales have been declining slightly for several years now, even though they still make up a huge part of the beverage market.
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    New numbers out today show that the soda sales slump that has been going on for years continued to speed up in 2011, with consumers buying more healthy beverages in its place.

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  • The number of students taking the test to go to law school fell to its lowest level in 12 years, according to the latest data from the Law School Admission Council, which administers the test.

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  • In additing to a shortage of supplies and labor, there's now a shortage of lots for home builders.
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    The number of new homes starts last month fell, but a rise in future home-construction plans gave economists hope that the housing market has stabilized. Meanwhile, the number of new students taking the law-school entrance exam dropped to the lowest level in 12 years. Also on the show, China announced a major increase in gas prices, a reported delay in cleaner fuels could harm the new engines designed to burn it, and an oil spill off the coast of Brazil last November is the subject of a lawsuit this week. Plus, our interview with the author of a story that makes comparisons between Mitt Romney's GOP campaign and that of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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