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Meghan McCarty Carino

Senior Reporter

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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 (278)

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EU regulators request information on Amazon's algorithms

Jul 22, 2024
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Tech Bytes – Week in Review: Vance’s Silicon Valley ties, Prime Day injuries and Starbucks bets on EVs

Jul 19, 2024
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The complicated reality of school cellphone bans

Jul 17, 2024
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The digital surveillance of transgender people

Jul 16, 2024
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Online speech cases sent back to the lower courts

Jul 15, 2024
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Bytes: Week in Review — FTC's latest tech crackdown, Trump’s pro-crypto campaign and Threads turns a year old

Jul 12, 2024
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More website links are expiring. Is it a bug or a feature of the internet?

Jul 11, 2024
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Progressive TikTok creators turn against Biden

Jul 10, 2024
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Stocks extend run

Jul 8, 2024
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Unemployment ticks up

Jul 5, 2024
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Latest Stories (534)

Workplace Culture

How workers who started jobs remotely are adapting a year on

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 29, 2021
Many have never seen their company's office or met their co-workers in person.
“We found that games and wordplay were a great way of supporting that sense of people reaching through the screen," said Jessica Shaw, founder of PACT Creative Training.
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Pandemic brings short-term pain, long-term gain for co-working and flexible office space

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 26, 2021
Remote workers might be looking for an escape, and companies are ready to experiment.
Co-working spaces offer the kind of flexibility remote workers may need.
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Work-from-home benefits may not outweigh long-term costs

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 22, 2021
You might save on commuting and buying clothes, but upgrading your living space to make working from home feasible can be costly.
Harvard business professor Chris Stanton said even a minor increase in working from home after the pandemic could add up to billions of dollars a year for workers.
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Disney faces pay-secrecy complaint in lawsuit

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 19, 2021
It's illegal under labor laws to prohibit employees from discussing salaries, though informal taboos are common.
Pay secrecy policies keep women and people of color from finding out just how much less money they may make compared to their white, male colleagues.
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OSHA expected to issue emergency workplace safety standard

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 15, 2021
The agency did not set safety rules for COVID-19 under the previous administration.
A set of binding national requirements will make it clear to employers what they need to do, said David Michaels, who headed OSHA during the Obama administration.
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Stimulus could fund ventilation improvements in classrooms

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 15, 2021
Run-down public schools made air quality a problem before COVID.
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How do interns learn about the workplace when there is none?

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 11, 2021
The programs are less about casual networking and observation in a remote world. Remote internships need more direction, one expert says.
"There's no observation, really, there's no serendipitous contact," in remote internships, says Marianna Savoca of Stony Brook University.
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Reopening schools raises complicated questions about health, education and inequity

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 10, 2021
A poll from the Pew Research Center found more than half of Americans think schools shouldn't reopen until teachers are vaccinated.
Education workers line up to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Yup, looking at yourself on video all the time can get exhausting

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 1, 2021
Stanford researchers say being constantly confronted with our own faces in videoconferencing takes a toll.
"When you look at yourself, you evaluate yourself. And evaluating yourself for eight hours a day is not good," said Jeremy Bailenson with Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab.
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For teachers, pandemic adds new stresses

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Feb 25, 2021
A new Rand survey found stress was the top reason why teachers leave the profession, even before COVID-19.
A new report from the Rand Corporation shows the toll stress takes on those in the profession, and how the pandemic has made things worse.
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