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Sean McHenry

Associate Producer

Sean is based in Los Angeles, California.

He works on the flagship broadcast show “Marketplace,” where he produces host interviews, first-person stories via the “My Economy” series, and directs (he’s one of the people who picks the music you hear on the show).

Sean graduated from the University of Michigan and got his formal entry to radio as an intern on Michigan Radio’s daily newsmagazine “Stateside.” Before that, his notable jobs include writing teacher, barista, and he was briefly a janitor. He enjoys being a big nerd over coffee and TV, especially sci-fi and reality TV.

Latest from Sean McHenry

  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post, which details the procedures he would like the government to use as its regulation standard.
    David Ramos/Getty Images

    CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out the case for regulating his own company, but regulating one tech giant will likely mean regulating others. First we do the numbers on Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company. Plus: what you need to know about a big snack food merger.

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  • Washington DC's Spingarn High School, where Keith Jackson attended before his arrest, November 2018. 
    Jared Soares/Marketplace

    One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his classmates, that wasn’t the surprising part.

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  • A pedestrian shelters beneath a Union flag-themed umbrella near Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament in central London on June 25, 2016, following the pro-Brexit result of the U.K.'s EU referendum vote.
    JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been voted down a third time. On today’s special broadcast from London, Kai Ryssdal talks with business owners and regular folks about how they’re getting by amid all this uncertainty.

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  • Protesters gather to demonstrate against the EU referendum result in Trafalgar Square on June 28, 2016 in London, England. Up to 50,000 people were expected before the event was cancelled due to safety concerns. Early evening up to 300 people have still converged on the square to vent their anti-Brexit feelings. 
    Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

    It’s our second day of special Brexit coverage in London, and today we’re talking with entrepreneurs and American expats just trying to get by.

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  • Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, during the IMF and the World Bank Group 2018 spring meetings in Washington, D.C., in 2018.
    Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

    Here's why she doesn't think "turning inward" is the solution.

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  • Shoppers walk along the high street in the market town of Boston in Lincolnshire in 2015.
    Lindsay Parnaby/AFP/Getty Images

    It’s been 1,007 days since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union — and the ensuing political paralysis and economic uncertainty. Today we come to you from Boston, which had the highest proportion of votes to leave.

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  • The view of Brexit from outside Parliament
    TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images

    Kai Ryssdal’s in London this week, reporting on how Brexit is affecting people, businesses and the economy. But first: The Trump administration is taking the Affordable Care Act to court … what happens if it wins?

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  • The Apple logo is seen onstage prior to an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California.
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    What does Apple bring to the streaming wars? Plus: Some farmers are struggling to pay back government loans, thanks to trade wars and low prices for key crops. 

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  • President George H.W. Bush addressing the nation on Sept. 5, 1989. The president illustrated the threat of drugs by holding up a baggie of crack he said had been seized across the street from the White House.
    Courtesy: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

    The Uncertain Hour is going inside America’s drug war this season. We’re starting with the strange and little-known story of how, 30 years ago, George H.W. Bush came to hold up an baggie of crack in his first televised speech in the Oval Office.

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  • A homemade sign says "Think drugs gets you high give God a try," on a front lawn in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The town in Wise County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
    Julia Rendleman/Marketplace

    How George H.W. Bush turbocharged the war on drugs. Plus, the latest home sales numbers and the struggle to fight extremism online.

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