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  • Apr 5, 2025

    Mitchell Hartman

     
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    Mitchell’s most important job at Marketplace is to explain the economy in ways that non-expert, non-business people can understand. Michell thinks of his audience as anyone who works, whether for money or not, and lives in the economy . . . which is most people.

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Kristin Schwab

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

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Samantha Fields

     
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    Samantha Fields is a senior reporter at Marketplace.

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Caitlin Esch

    Caitlin Esch
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    Caitlin Esch is a Deputy Managing Editor at Marketplace where she oversees longform projects, including the climate solutions podcast, "How We Survive.” Caitlin joined Marketplace in 2014. She spent several years producing and managing Marketplace’s investigative podcast, “The Uncertain Hour.” These days, her work focuses on the climate crisis.

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Hayley Hershman

    Hayley Hershman is the senior producer of podcast development, where she brings ideas to life. Some of her favorite projects are the story-telling show "This Is Uncomfortable," the award-winning climate show "How We Survive," and Marketplace’s first video podcast, "Financially Inclined."

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Amy Scott

     
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    Amy Scott is the host of “How We Survive,” Marketplace's climate solutions podcast, and a senior correspondent covering housing, climate and the economy. She is also a frequent guest host of Marketplace programs. Since 2001, Amy has held many roles at Marketplace and covered many beats, from the culture of Wall Street to education and housing. Her reporting has taken her to every region of the country as well as Egypt, Dubai and Germany.  Her 2015 documentary film, “Oyler,” about a Cincinnati public school fighting to break the cycle of poverty in its traditionally urban Appalachian neighborhood, has screened at film festivals internationally and was broadcast on public television in 2016. She's currently at work on a film about a carpenter's mission to transform an abandoned block in west Baltimore into a community of Black women homeowners. Amy has won several awards for her reporting, including a SABEW Best in Business podcast award in 2023, Gracie awards for outstanding radio series in 2013 and 2014 and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting in 2012. Before joining Marketplace, Amy worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run. These days she's based in Baltimore.

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Matt Levin

    Matt Levin
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    Matt Levin is a senior reporter at Marketplace. He covers artificial intelligence and always speaks politely to chatbots, and suggests you do too. Other topics he regularly covers include housing, crypto, and the Fed. Before joining Marketplace, Matt covered California politics and policy as a data and housing reporter with CalMatters. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy from UCLA and in a past life did math for a think tank. But he was much better as a teenage cashier at Toys “R” Us.

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Henry Epp

    Henry Epp is a reporter for Marketplace based in Burlington, Vermont.

  • Elizabeth Trovall
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    Elizabeth Trovall covers energy and immigration for Marketplace from Houston.

  • Apr 5, 2025

    Nova Safo

    Nova Safo is a Marketplace correspondent covering a wide range of topics with a focus on macroeconomic developments here and abroad, as well as business and economic policy. He can be heard regularly on “Marketplace Morning Report,” with guest appearances co-hosting Marketplace’s “Make Me Smart” podcast.

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