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Meghan McCarty Carino

Senior Reporter

SHORT BIO

Meghan McCarty Carino is a senior reporter at Marketplace headquarters in Los Angeles. She’s also a fill-in host on “Marketplace Tech.”

Since 2019, Meghan has covered workplace culture, from #MeToo to pandemic remote work, the movement for racial justice and the artificial intelligence boom.

In her free time she can often be found obsessing over pizza dough, cocktail experiments or her latest food and drink fixation. She tracks her favorite international sunscreens in a Google doc – just ask.

Meghan previously reported, hosted and produced for Los Angeles station KPCC/LAist, and got her start as an intern at KQED in San Francisco. Her work has won a National Headliner Award, Online Journalism Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, LA Press Club Award and has been featured by Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and the Center for Public Integrity.

Meghan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended UCLA and USC.

Episodes by Meghan (252)

Marketplace Tech

A vital, mostly invisible undersea industry is facing a labor shortage

May 16, 2024
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Millions of Americans could lose home internet access next month

May 7, 2024
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AI is surpassing humans in several areas, Stanford report says

May 2, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1148

College campus protests and the value of a degree

Apr 26, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1146

To ban or not to ban

Apr 24, 2024
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Why the Ai Pin fell flat

Apr 23, 2024
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When a senior is ill, can an algorithm decide length of care?

Apr 22, 2024
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The hidden meanings of the AI industry’s favorite words

Apr 9, 2024
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Facial recognition part of Israel's arsenal in Gaza war

Apr 8, 2024
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Why crypto has made a comeback in the Philippines

Mar 25, 2024
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Latest Stories (519)

Workplace Culture

The future of work anywhere: gardens, stores and hotels

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 15, 2021
The more working at an office becomes a choice, the more workplaces could become a niche consumer product.
A garden "pod" office at Second Home Hollywood co-working space.
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Census Bureau to add business startups as an official statistic

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 10, 2021
The fast-moving nature of the pandemic demands new measurements that are more timely.
Business startups have surged during the pandemic. The Census Bureau is making permanent a new monthly metric for business formations.
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Without teen workers, "we'd have to close our doors"

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 9, 2021
A hot job market continues to seek out teenagers. But will that hurt their academics and long-term job prospects?
Amid a labor shortage, the teenage employment rates remain high.
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Why aren't public sector jobs coming back in a strong way?

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 8, 2021
State and local government jobs, especially in education, continue to lag behind the overall labor market, that showed job growth in October.
Jobs in the public sector still haven't bounced back, which goes against forecasts.
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New OSHA vaccination guidelines for large employers: Who pays what?

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 5, 2021
Costs include time off for workers to get shots, and the cost of testing for those who don't want to get vaccinated.
Pedestrians wearing face masks walk past a sign posting COVID-19 requirements in front of a store in Hollywood, California, on Nov. 2.
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Retailers less dependent on the global supply chain could see opportunities this holiday season

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 3, 2021
Will holiday shoppers factor on-time delivery into purchases?
E-commerce sites like Etsy might see some opportunities even with the supply chain struggles.
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Tying exec pay to diversity goals isn't so straightforward

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 2, 2021
A growing trend links CEO pay packages to achieving diversity, equity and inclusion targets that are sometimes too subjective.
A group of Blizzard employees on July 28 stage a walkout and rally to protest the company's history of sexual harassment outside of the Activision Blizzard office complex in Irvine, Calif.
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Paid family leave would be a paradigm shift for many workers

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Oct 26, 2021
Even when the benefit is available, many Americans hesitate to use it. It's included in the Democrats' social-spending bill.
Though the Democrats' paid family leave proposal has been reduced from 12 weeks to four, it would still be a major change for Americans.
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COVID-19

No noon meetings: Citigroup tries to address burnout

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Oct 20, 2021
Along with protecting the lunch hour, the bank also suggested meetings should be no more than 45 minutes.
Bloomberg reports that Citigroup told staff to reduce meeting times and avoid lunchtime meetings.
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More buildings being converted to apartments than ever before

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Oct 14, 2021
About 20,000 new apartment units were created this year in buildings that used to serve some other purpose.
The Tribune Tower sits along Michigan Avenue at the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois. Much of the iconic building has been converted into apartments.
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