SHORT BIO
Kristin Schwab is a reporter at Marketplace focusing on the consumer economy. She's based in Brooklyn, New York.
Before Marketplace, Kristin produced narrative and news podcasts for The New York Times, New York Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. She teaches audio journalism at her alma mater, Columbia Journalism School.
Kristin also has a BFA in dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After performing with ballet and modern companies, she got her start in journalism as an editor at Dance Magazine. Kristin grew up in Minnesota and has been a bit reporting obsessed since watching the '90s PBS show "Ghostwriter" as a kid. Yes, she had one of those necklace pens and a marbled composition notebook.
Latest Stories (508)
Employers rethink cost of living calculations
Oct 12, 2020
As employees stay remote and can move anywhere to work, some companies are reconsidering the math that goes into compensation packages.
IBM evolves yet again ... this time into the cloud
Oct 9, 2020
As an early company song put it, IBM has moved "ever onward," from punch cards to mainframes to software and services. Now it's diving into AI and cloud computing.
Substitute teaching is even tougher during the COVID-19 pandemic
Oct 8, 2020
With full-time teachers getting sick, quarantining or burning out, subs have been needed more than ever.
Tricky pandemic Halloween might be a treat for businesses
Oct 5, 2020
"It could either be the worst year we've ever had or the best year we've ever had," said one costume retailer.
Copays no longer waived for some telehealth visits
Oct 1, 2020
The cost may push people in need of exams back to the doctor's office detering others from seeking medical help, health experts say.
Mergers and acquisitions have a very good summer
Sep 30, 2020
Why has there been a corporate rush to buy and sell, and what do trends within those deals mean.
Grocers are scrambling to face another pandemic panic
Sep 28, 2020
And they can't rely on their usual algorithms to decide what to stock up on.
Banks weigh in on what the 2020 presidential election might do to the stock market
Sep 25, 2020
Economists often look to previous elections to model upcoming ones, but 2020 continues to break the mold.
Tesla promised a big announcement on batteries. Now its stock is tumbling.
by
David Brancaccio
, Kristin Schwab
and Alex Schroeder
Sep 23, 2020
The announcement fell short of what investors were expecting.
The future of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court's hands
Sep 21, 2020
The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was expected to vote to uphold the ACA.