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Kristin Schwab

Reporter

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Kristin Schwab is a reporter at Marketplace focusing on the consumer economy. She's based in Brooklyn, New York.

Before Marketplace, Kristin produced narrative and news podcasts for The New York Times, New York Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. She teaches audio journalism at her alma mater, Columbia Journalism School.

Kristin also has a BFA in dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After performing with ballet and modern companies, she got her start in journalism as an editor at Dance Magazine. Kristin grew up in Minnesota and has been a bit reporting obsessed since watching the '90s PBS show "Ghostwriter" as a kid. Yes, she had one of those necklace pens and a marbled composition notebook.

Episodes by Kristin (11)

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Rents outpace wages in big cities across the U.S.

May 8, 2024
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Steel tariffs déjà vu 

Apr 17, 2024
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“This is the time to be a saver”

Apr 2, 2024
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Ultimately, the joke's on Gmail rivals

Apr 1, 2024
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Can we break out of the mortgage lock-in effect?

Feb 19, 2024
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Shoppers love easy returns. But retailers aren't sold on 'em.

Nov 24, 2023
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Wall Street rallies on inflation

Nov 14, 2023
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A closer look at unemployment and wealth gap data

Oct 19, 2023
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How water moves — or stalls — the economy

Oct 18, 2023
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Oil prices are in flux

Sep 6, 2023
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Latest Stories (507)

This 17-year-old hacked the Air Force

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Aug 10, 2017
He found 40 website vulnerabilities at a federal bug bounty challenge.
HackerOne co-founder Jobert Abma (left) and bug bounty winner Jack Cable.
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President Trump's security team could soon include drones

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Aug 7, 2017
The Secret Service will run tests during Trump's working vacation this month.
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"Did Apple effectively work with China to burn a billion books in Tiananmen Square this weekend?"

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Aug 1, 2017
Here's how the VPN ban will affect businesses' bottom lines — and user browsing.
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CBS' new "Star Trek" series will also stream on Netflix

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 31, 2017
The network and on-demand service will simultaneously release episodes.
Netflix also has the rights to all 727 episodes of "Star Trek," including the original series.
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Goodbye, Flash

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 27, 2017
Adobe will phase out the browser plugin by 2020.
 A window on the Mozilla Firefox browser shows the browser has blocked the Adobe Flash plugin. 
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The Next Big Tech Hub

Tech jobs are spreading to other parts of the country

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 25, 2017
But, according to data from Indeed, they tend to offer little growth and lower pay.
Higher-paying tech jobs are becoming increasingly concentrated in eight tech hubs.
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Could this app bring together the next Sonny and Cher?

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 24, 2017
Treble is like LinkedIn for musicians, CEO Matt Bond says.
Cher and Sonny on a visit to London in August 1965.
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Driverless cars can't figure out kangaroos

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 21, 2017
The marsupial accounts for 80 percent of animal-related auto accidents in Australia.
Watch out for the kangaroos.
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Tech songs to fuel your summer

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 17, 2017
A playlist of listener favorites, plus a few of our own.
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Every product at this new online grocery store is $3

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 13, 2017
"Brandless is about limiting the choice. It's about curating the just what matters," says co-founder Tina Sharkey.
Brandless co-founders Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler
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