Tony Wagner

Newsletter Editor

Tony Wagner is Marketplace's newsletter editor. You can email him at twagner@marketplace.org.

Previously he was a digital producer who helped launch “Make Me Smart,” “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” After eight years at Marketplace headquarters in LA, he recently relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Latest from Tony Wagner

Aug 23, 2024
This is what it means to “make it”
Kate Sweeney
Reema Khrais gives a preview of season 10, and Hanif Abdurraqib shares his flower budget.
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Aug 23, 2024
Catch up on all the news you missed from the DNC
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Plus, The Onion is back in print and Burning Man is losing some heat.
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Jul 26, 2024
For Sarah Thankam Mathews, organizing is about people and potential
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The “All This Could Be Different” author chatted with us about embarrassed millionaires, mutual aid and Milwaukee.
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Jul 12, 2024
Amanda Montell on how cognitive biases mess with our lives and our money
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We chatted with the author and podcaster about her new book “The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality.”
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Jul 1, 2024
The real-life boiler rooms that inspired “Glengarry Glen Ross”
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What’s your industry’s “Always Be Closing”? Send us your answer to help us explore this month’s film.
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Jun 28, 2024
Anxieties about food and parenting transcend class
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Sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh cooked and ate with families to write “How the Other Half Eats”
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Jun 13, 2024
“Temporary” author Hilary Leichter on losing yourself to gigs
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“You can never bring your true full self to a job because a job is not the world. It’s this strange microcosm of the world.”
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May 31, 2024
Author Sameer Pandya on how race and class shape our stories
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The “Members Only” novelist goes deep on the history and themes behind “A Passage to India” in this week’s newsletter.
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May 3, 2024
Naomi Alderman on predicting “The Future”
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It’s the first selection for our Uncomfortable Book Club series!
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Apr 12, 2024
This is what your clothes cost the people who make them
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Plus: “Gentefied” co-creator Marvin Lemus defends his splurge in this week’s newsletter. Don’t forget to file your taxes BTW!
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