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Kristin Schwab

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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 (32)

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Tupperware, Halloween candy, claw machines — oh my!

Oct 25, 2024
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Women deserve credit

Oct 21, 2024
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The economics of immigration

Sep 5, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1236

Harris throws a bone to the business folks

Sep 5, 2024
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Who's still hiring?

Sep 4, 2024
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The politics of Fed independence

Aug 9, 2024
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This back-to-school season, "value" is at the top of America's shopping list

Aug 8, 2024
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Has the Fed ever met its 2 goals?

Aug 7, 2024
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Why we freak out when the stock market freaks out

Aug 6, 2024
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“Chaotic,” “volatile,” “tumultuous”

Aug 5, 2024
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Marketplace Tech Blogs

How cranberries get from the bog to your Thanksgiving table

by Adriene Hill and Kristin Schwab
Nov 23, 2017
Tech is helping the industry produce better fruit.
Cranberry bogs must be intentionally flooded to easily collect the fruit.
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Evenly Distributed

Predicting the technology of the future for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles

by Adriene Hill and Kristin Schwab
Nov 20, 2017
Some of the tech that will be used in Los Angeles may not have even been invented yet.
 A general view of the Olympic Rings in front of the Bolshoy Ice Dome prior to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in the Olympic Park Coastal Cluster on February 1, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
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Toronto is building a billion-dollar mini smart city

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 16, 2017
The city partnered with an Alphabet subsidiary to bring new tech to its waterfront.
Toronto Mayor John Tory during his visit to Marketplace's New York bureau.
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The Source Code: Ellen Pao

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 15, 2017
Our conversation with Ellen Pao on the pervasive sexual harassment problem in venture capital.
Ellen Pao leaves the San Francisco Superior Court Civic Center Courthouse during a lunch break from her trial on March 25, 2015, in San Francisco. Pao, Reddit's interim CEO, is suing her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, for $16 million alleging she was sexually harassed.
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How venture capital works

Why discrimination in venture capital runs deep

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 15, 2017
Ellen Pao on why it's going to take more than a few leaders stepping down to solve the problem.
Ellen Pao, the interim CEO of Reddit, sued her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, for $16 million, alleging she was sexually harassed by male officials.
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How venture capital works

A startup that's capitalizing on the untapped hair extensions market

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 13, 2017
Mayvenn, an e-commerce platform, allows stylists to sell the accessories directly to their clients.
Hair extensions and wigs are a $5 billion market in the U.S.
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Is the Amazon Key a sign of our lock-less future?

by Amy Scott and Kristin Schwab
Nov 8, 2017
Maybe those metal keys will stay in your junk drawer forever.
Amazon's Cloud Cam works with the Key.
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Silicon Valley once sold little more than microchips. How did it become the capital of tech?

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 7, 2017
Historian Leslie Berlin's new book explores Silicon Valley's transformation into a tech hub.
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Will China's brand-obsessed consumers shell out 2 months' salary for an iPhone X?

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 3, 2017
The country is important to Apple's growth.
New iPhone X sits on a dock at an Apple showroom in Sydney on November 3, 2017
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How social media exacerbates the racial divide

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 1, 2017
Facebook's general counsel told Congress that Russian propaganda remains a problem.
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