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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

  • When it comes to mental health, U.S. employers are still not sure how to help
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    Many U.S. workers aren’t getting the mental health support they need. Employers are trying to step up, but is it enough?

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  • Women at work in the bookkeeping room at the Bank of America in Los Angeles circa 1970.
    Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

    Plus: an update on U.S. trade relations, how a retired government contractor is winding down on the vineyard and a look at this decade in housing. 

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  • Visitors take images of Huawei's foldable 5G smartphone, the Mate X, at the Mobile World Congress in February in Barcelona.
    Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images

    Plus: the trade deficit in goods shrank for the third straight month, California’s new data privacy law kicks in at the start of the new year and a nurse navigates finances in her semiretirement. 

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  • The NBC peacock logo.
    Michael Nagle/Getty Images

    Plus: Tesla is set to deliver its first cars built in China, a sleeping pill-induced money horror story and how swimsuit fabric drummed up controversy at the Olympics.

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  • Clean shipping is coming to a port near you
    AFP via Getty Images

    Plus: a look at the state of automatic inflation adjustments in minimum wage, how Saudi Arabia is pushing entrepreneurship, and Pantone’s 2020 color of the year.

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  • Fiona Houston, co-founder of Mara Seaweed, harvesting off the Scottish coast.
    Angus Bremner

    Fiona Houston co-founded Mara Seaweed five years ago. The company is expanding, but tariffs and geopolitics have been concerning.

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  • Will you get more overtime pay in 2020?
    KIM JAE-HWAN/AFP/Getty Images

    Plus: A look back at the last decade in trade and the last year in China. 

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  • Disney has some basic Baby Yoda merchandise on its online store, like T-shirts and phone cases.
    Katherine Wiles/Marketplace, screenshots via shopDisney

    Plus: a climate-conscious Christmas, a look back at the year in retail and one state’s efforts to curb traffic congestion. 

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  • Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg speaks during their annual shareholders meeting at the Field Museum on April 29, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Boeing announced earnings fell 21 percent in the first quarter after multiple crashes of the company's bestselling plane the 737 Max.
    Jim Young-Pool/Getty Images

    Plus: a chat with the LA mayor, a breakdown of what being a “most-favored-nation” means, and why there’s an overload of packages being delivered to the office.

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  • The GOP tax cuts, two years on
    Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    Plus: Chinese surveillance companies finding blacklist workarounds, new consumer spending numbers and why it’s still so hard to shop sustainably.

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