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Alex Schroeder

"Marketplace Morning Report" Producer

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Alex is a producer for the “Marketplace Morning Report.” He's based in Queens, New York.

Alex joined Marketplace in 2020, working as MMR's digital producer. After a little over a year, he became the show's overnight producer, getting up far before the crack of dawn to put together the day's newscasts with the host and team. Now, he works daylight hours, preparing interviews for the following morning and producing long-term specials and series.

Before Marketplace, Alex worked on several national public radio shows produced out of WBUR in Boston. He was both a radio and digital producer with “On Point,” “Here & Now” and “Only a Game.” Alex also worked at The Boston Globe after graduating from Tufts University.

Alex's interests outside of work tend to fall into one of two categories: film or soccer. (Come on Arsenal!) He’s always looking for ways to cover the economics of entertainment and sports on the “Marketplace Morning Report.”

Episodes by Alex (4)

Marketplace Morning Report

Special: Democracy in the Desert

Mar 1, 2024
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The last local news outlet in town

Feb 27, 2024
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China reopens its borders

Jan 9, 2023
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Special: The Transistor at 75

Dec 16, 2022
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Latest Stories (405)

Small businesses could see big gains by boosting productivity

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 25, 2024
And they can achieve that through better collaboration with companies big and small in their industries.
"Small businesses are, really, the backbone of the economy in so many ways," says McKinsey's Anu Madgavkar.
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"The League"

Negro Leagues barnstorming brought baseball to new places

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 23, 2024
It's just one of the lasting economic legacies of the professional baseball played in the Negro Leagues in the 20th century.
Teams that played in the Negro Leagues often had no choice but to hit the road and play games all over. They relied on this practice, known as barnstorming, to keep the money coming in. Pictured above: The Newark Eagles in a dugout in 1936.
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"The League"

How baseball's Negro Leagues became successful business enterprises

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 17, 2024
"It was sailing against the tide of oppression," Negro Leagues Baseball Museum co-founder Larry Lester says.
Andrew "Rube" Foster founded the Chicago American Giants, pictured here in 1941. Foster organized the Negro National League, the first league for Black baseball players that survived a whole season.
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How immigrant entrepreneurs help create jobs and boost the economy

by David Brancaccio , Chris Farrell and Alex Schroeder
Apr 15, 2024
Immigrants are much more likely to create a new business, studies show, and the knock-on effect is job creation.
"Immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.S. are associated with a net gain in jobs. Specifically, they're responsible for roughly one in four of all jobs in young firms," said Marketplace senior economics contributor Chris Farrell.
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Democracy in the Desert

Not everyone who lives in a "news desert" would describe it that way

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 15, 2024
And those attitudes about local information ecosystems may provide insight into solutions for news deserts.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that people living in news deserts often turn to social media for information.
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More immigration means gains for U.S. economy, CBO says

by David Brancaccio , Chris Farrell and Alex Schroeder
Apr 10, 2024
The agency's estimates that immigrants will add $7 trillion to gross domestic product over the next decade.
Immigrants have filled jobs that employers had struggled to find workers for, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Democracy in the Desert

Solutions for local news deserts

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 9, 2024
Legacy news outlets are changing revenue models, for-profit outfits are switching to nonprofit and startups are finding opportunities.
"More than a dozen states have either passed legislation or are considering legislation to help local news," said Tim Franklin, who leads the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University.
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Health and Wealth

Has legislation to stop surprise medical bills worked?

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Apr 1, 2024
Yes and no. Patients have avoided millions of surprise bills, but a plan to cut wider health care spending has seen mixed results.
"Ultimately, this law is protecting more people from the kinds of medical debt that you're covering on the show, but that protection may come at a price: higher insurance premiums for millions," said Dan Gorenstein, executive editor at Tradeoffs.
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Trump's Truth Social debuts on the stock market. Here's what you need to know.

by David Brancaccio , Alex Schroeder and Natalie White
Mar 27, 2024
The people purchasing stock of the Trump Media and Technology Group are likely buying shares out of loyalty to the former president rather than faith in it as a good long-term investment, argues the University of Florida's Jay Ritter.
"This is a small company that is not growing and is losing money hand over fist," said Jay Ritter of the University of Florida.
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Why do companies go private?

by Sabri Ben-Achour , Alex Schroeder and Ariana Rosas
Mar 25, 2024
There's news that department store chain Nordstrom is looking to go private, after a previous attempt failed.
Nordstrom's stock jumped 10% last week after a report said the company is looking to go private.
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