Stay Tuned
EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION:
On Monday and Tuesday, our Wealth & Poverty desk will present an exclusive can’t-miss investigation into a shady underworld of the U.S. labor market. On Monday morning, check your inboxes for a preview of the special investigation. We’ll also tell you how your local current affairs programs can speak with our reporters about their work.
BRANCACCIO BACK AT MMR:
As we announced earlier today, we are thrilled to welcome David Brancaccio back as host of Morning Report. Starting Monday, May 6, David will assume hosting duties for casts 2-6. Casts 1 and 7 will remain technology focused. We will call upon the talent of our technology team, in particular, producer Ben Johnson, to fill in as technology hosts in the interim. Our nationwide search for a new tech host is already underway. And, we wish Jeremy all the best as he prepares for his final week as Morning Report host.
FRANCIS COLLINS, NIH DIRECTOR:
On Tuesday, Kai is scheduled to speak with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. Tune in to find out how critical health research funding is affected by, yes, the sequestration.
MARKETPLACE MONEY – CALL US:
As announced in last week’s APM Station Update, Marketplace Money has moved to an all interview/call-in format. If you have any questions about the format change, please contact your APM Station Relations Representative. We hope you’ll give the show a listen this weekend and let us know what you think. And you’ll be the first to know when we have news on the new Money host.
In Case You Missed It
BOSTON COVERAGE:
As news developed in Boston, Marketplace responded with multiple live feeds of Morning Report and Marketplace. Our wide-ranging coverage included live on the ground reports, coverage of crowd-sourced video and photo evidence, the cost and logistics of shutting down a major metropolis, the danger of online amateur sleuthing, and interviews with people on the ground including the owner of a donut shop who locked himself in his store as the manhunt unfolded. And this past weekend, Money told listeners the best ways to donate to victims of the attack.
MARKETPLACE, FRONTLINE AND PROPUBLICA WIN IRE AWARD:
It was recently announced that Marketplace has won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, in the multiplatform category, for last December’s ‘Big Sky, Big Money’ investigation. And Rob Schmitz’s expose of Mike Daisey’s fabrications of Apple’s supply chain was named a finalist in the radio category. You can continue to expect to hear more enterprise reporting from Marketplace in the months ahead.
CHINA’S TOXIC HARVEST:
Last week, Rob Schmitz profiled the terrible human cost of economic development in China’s so called “cancer villages”.
SHOW ME YOUR SAFETY NET:
Krissy Clark’s new series continued as she asked whether social security should only cover those in need and what we really mean by “entitlement”.
ONE SCHOOL, ONE YEAR:
Amy Scott’s year-long profile of Oyler, a Cincinnati school trying to transform a neighborhood battered by crime and poverty, continued earlier this month when Amy introduced us to eighteen-year-old Raven Gribbins, the first in her family to finish high school.