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Meghan McCarty Carino

Senior Reporter

SHORT BIO

Meghan McCarty Carino is a senior reporter at Marketplace headquarters in Los Angeles. She’s also a fill-in host on “Marketplace Tech.”

Since 2019, Meghan has covered workplace culture, from #MeToo to pandemic remote work, the movement for racial justice and the artificial intelligence boom.

In her free time she can often be found obsessing over pizza dough, cocktail experiments or her latest food and drink fixation. She tracks her favorite international sunscreens in a Google doc – just ask.

Meghan previously reported, hosted and produced for Los Angeles station KPCC/LAist, and got her start as an intern at KQED in San Francisco. Her work has won a National Headliner Award, Online Journalism Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, LA Press Club Award and has been featured by Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and the Center for Public Integrity.

Meghan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended UCLA and USC.

Episodes by Meghan (384)

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At Davos, rich and powerful now comfortable with power of AI

Jan 27, 2025
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Bytes: Week in Review — The Stargate project, Trump meme coins, and the TikTok flip-flop

Jan 24, 2025
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As LA blazes rage, even firefighters turn to Watch Duty

Jan 23, 2025
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How one college is leveraging AI for educators and students

Jan 22, 2025
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Trump's election syncs up with tech backlash against gloom and guilt

Jan 21, 2025
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Biden pushed back on Big Tech's power, and Trump found a few new friends

Jan 20, 2025
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How AI chatbots are turning the tables on scammers

Jan 14, 2025
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Bytes: Week in Review — Meta's users take over fact checks, YouTubers sue PayPal and highlights from CES

Jan 10, 2025
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Meta pivots to community fact-checking ahead of Trump term

Jan 9, 2025
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Why 2025 may be the year of small AI

Jan 7, 2025
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Latest Stories (539)

How the legal landscape is changing for AI

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jan 1, 2025
As the new year begins, a number of new laws governing artificial intelligence take effect, with California leading the charge.
California law now requires greater transparency for AI-generated content and more protections for creative performers. Above, the state Capitol.
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Quantum leap? This computing system could advance in 2025.

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Dec 25, 2024
Artificial intelligence is sure to get most of the hype, but technologists are making progress in realizing the promise of quantum computing.
A model of a quantum computer in Japan. Some say quantum computing could help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems.
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Netflix bets big on Christmas NFL streaming

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Dec 24, 2024
Despite hiccups with a boxing match, the ad revenue a live football double bill would bring is one of the reasons it's worth the gamble.
One reason Netflix is dipping its toe into streaming live sports? Advertising dollars. The vast majority of most-watched broadcast television programs in 2023 were NFL games.
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20 years of Yelp: do we still trust online reviews?

by Meghan McCarty Carino and Elissa Castles
Nov 26, 2024
Online ratings have become ubiquitous. But they've never been noisier to interpret.
About 10% of online reviews are fake, according to research by USC's Dina Mayzlin.
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Silicon Valley is feeling the AI boom on the ground

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 22, 2024
Real estate prices are getting unreal, thanks to the ripples of Nvidia's success.
San Francisco and much of the Bay Area real estate market are seeing a wave of luxury buying by tech workers who are cashing in their lucrative stock holdings.
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A closer look at wage measures hints at why consumers still feel gloomy

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 4, 2024
Average wage growth has slowed in recent months, though according to the May jobs report, it’s still ahead of inflation.
"While wages have grown across the board, we've actually had the strongest wage growth among the lowest earners," says Valerie Wilson at the Economic Policy Institute.
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Fragmented demand means there's not just one beer industry anymore

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 3, 2024
It started with the rise of craft beer in the 2010s and has continued with flavored hard seltzers and canned cocktails.
"Beverage alcohol consumers are starting to spread their dollars across alcohol types and categories more than they have in the past," says Matt Gacioch, staff economist with the Brewers Association.
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John Deere job cuts reflect slower agricultural economy

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 3, 2024
Crop prices have fallen as production increased, and many farmers have already bought all the equipment they need.
Farmers are spending less money on tractors and equipment this year because crop prices have gone down.
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TikTok color analysis trend presents a vibrant business opportunity

by Meghan McCarty Carino and Dylan Miettinen
Jul 2, 2024
Guessing at someone’s color season has become a popular internet parlor game. It’s also a growing business for people looking to boost their professional image and the entrepreneurs ready to help them do that.
From left to right, Debbie O'Keefe, color consultant Ashley Dworak and Lauren Kreuzberg at the House of Colour studio in Papillion, Nebraska, in late May.
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Continuing claims for jobless benefits reach highest point since 2021

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jun 27, 2024
The uptick seems to reinforce a number of recent signals showing moderation in the labor market.
Rising continuing unemployment claims mesh with other recent data. Job openings have been declining, for instance, and so have quits.
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