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Mitchell Hartman

Correspondent

SHORT BIO

Mitchell’s most important job at Marketplace is to explain the economy in ways that non-expert, non-business people can understand. Michell thinks of his audience as anyone who works, whether for money or not, and lives in the economy . . . which is most people.

Mitchell wants to understand, and help people understand, how the economy works, who it helps, who it hurts and why. Mitchell gets to cover what he thinks are some of the most interesting aspects of the economy: wages and inflation, consumer psychology, wealth inequality, economic theory and how it measures up to economic reality.

Mitchell was a high school newspaper nerd and a college newspaper editor. He has worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer, WXPN-FM, WBAI-FM, KPFK-FM, Pacifica Radio, the CBC, the BBC, Monitor Radio, Cairo Today Magazine, The Jordan Times, The Middletown Press, The New Haven Register, Oregon Business Magazine, the Reed College Alumni Magazine, and Marketplace (twice — 1994-2001 & 2008-present).

Mitchell has gone on strike (Newspaper Guild vs. Knight Ridder, Philadelphia, 1985) and helped organize a union (with SAG-AFTRA at Marketplace, 2021-23). Mitchell once interviewed Marcel Marceau and got him to talk.

Latest Stories (1,988)

Banks push bank against regulators' plan to 'claw-back' pay

Jul 6, 2011
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is expected to finalize a proposal today that would require big back executives to return pay if their bank fails.

The sweet sound of success

Jul 4, 2011
Many music festivals and concert promoters are seeing attendance increase after a run of slumping ticket sales.

Bank of America settles over mortgage securities

Jun 29, 2011
Bank of America settled with investors for $8.5 billion over claims that it sold them bad loans. What does that mean for holders of 401ks?

Microsoft expected to unveil its own cloud service

Jun 28, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to introduce Office 365, the latest computing service entering the 'cloud.'

The FTC launches anti-trust probe over Google ads

Jun 23, 2011
The company's ad-search practices are at issue.

Google gets 1 billion 'unique' visitors

Jun 22, 2011
That's more than Facebook. But unique isn't always best.

Survey: VCs don't think there's enough in the IPO pipeline

Jun 22, 2011
Venture capitalists say that the financial markets are still too weak to support a lot of IPOs.

Dodd-Frank law tough to implement

Jun 14, 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposes to delay rules governing the $600 trillion swaps market. Why is it so hard to put financial reform into action?

Kickstarting jobs tougher than you think

Jun 13, 2011
Some economists say it will take much more sweeping measures to create jobs, things like an even bigger round of stimulus. But they aren't likely to happen.

Job searching in a social media age

Jun 4, 2011
Job seekers these days can look to a number of social media tools to help find the right connections and be more selective in their search.