Jennifer Collins
Reporter, Marketplace
SHORT BIO
Jennifer Collins is a former reporter for the Marketplace portfolio of programs. Based in Los Angeles, she covered media, retail, the entertainment industry and the West Coast.
Collins joined Marketplace in 2007 as an assistant producer and spent an additional two-and-a-half years directing and producing Marketplace Morning Report.
Collins likes the challenge of preparing for an interview, the thrill of a good conversation and the pleasure of learning something new every day. Prior to Marketplace, Collins reported for newspapers in Oregon, Alabama and Cambodia.
Collins received her bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University and attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, receiving honors in radio. She speaks some Spanish, French, Khmer and Arabic.
A native of Samish Island, Washington, (where Collins drove a farming combine for three summers in high school, harvesting peas) she currently lives in Los Angeles where she can be found scrambling up hillsides and running through the streets, as well as showing movies in her backyard for her neighbors in Hollywood.