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Samantha Fields

Senior Reporter

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Samantha Fields is a senior reporter at Marketplace.

She’s particularly interested in how the economy affects people’s everyday lives, and a lot of her coverage focuses on economic inequality, housing and climate change.

She’s also reported and produced for WCAI and The GroundTruth Project, the “NPR Politics Podcast,” NPR’s midday show, “Here & Now,” Vermont Public Radio and Maine Public Radio. She got her start in journalism as a reporter for a community paper, The Wellesley Townsman, and her start in radio as an intern and freelance producer at “The Takeaway” at WNYC. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Latest Stories (531)

Lots of Americans go into debt over the holidays

Nov 26, 2019
It’s the most financially stressful time of the year.
A man walks past holiday decorations along Fifth Avenue in  New York.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images

One year after Camp Fire, “it just keeps getting worse”

Nov 8, 2019
The deadline to file a claim against PG&E will likely be extended.
Crosses line the road to remember the 86 people who died as a result of the Camp Fire in Paradise, California.
Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

IVF, adoption, surrogacy: How are you building your family?

Oct 31, 2019
Let us know how money has factored into your decisions about how or whether to build your family.
Gordon Lake and Manuel Valero had their daughter  Carmen via a surrogate in Thailand. They then went through a 15-month court battle with the surrogate over custody.
Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images

The cost of building a family using donor sperm

Oct 24, 2019
Malkia and Nick Hutchinson-Arvizu are hoping to expand their family, but are struggling with the price tag.
Malkia and Nick Hutchinson-Arvizu outside their home in Houston.
William Chambers/Marketplace