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Kristin Schwab

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SHORT BIO

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 (15)

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One meeellion dollars!

Jun 11, 2024
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The clean energy boom can't come fast enough

Jun 10, 2024
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The complexity of succession planning 

May 21, 2024
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The future of dining

May 20, 2024
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Rents outpace wages in big cities across the U.S.

May 8, 2024
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Steel tariffs déjà vu 

Apr 17, 2024
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“This is the time to be a saver”

Apr 2, 2024
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Ultimately, the joke's on Gmail rivals

Apr 1, 2024
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Can we break out of the mortgage lock-in effect?

Feb 19, 2024
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Shoppers love easy returns. But retailers aren't sold on 'em.

Nov 24, 2023
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Latest Stories (512)

The Next Big Tech Hub

Tech jobs are spreading to other parts of the country

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 25, 2017
But, according to data from Indeed, they tend to offer little growth and lower pay.
Higher-paying tech jobs are becoming increasingly concentrated in eight tech hubs.
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Could this app bring together the next Sonny and Cher?

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 24, 2017
Treble is like LinkedIn for musicians, CEO Matt Bond says.
Cher and Sonny on a visit to London in August 1965.
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Driverless cars can't figure out kangaroos

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 21, 2017
The marsupial accounts for 80 percent of animal-related auto accidents in Australia.
Watch out for the kangaroos.
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Tech songs to fuel your summer

by Kristin Schwab
Jul 17, 2017
A playlist of listener favorites, plus a few of our own.
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Every product at this new online grocery store is $3

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 13, 2017
"Brandless is about limiting the choice. It's about curating the just what matters," says co-founder Tina Sharkey.
Brandless co-founders Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler
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Hyperloop One had its first successful test run

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 13, 2017
But you probably won't see this speedy travel technology in the U.S. anytime soon.
Hyperloop tubes displayed at the Hyperloop One Test and Safety Site in 2016 in North Las Vegas.
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Should the internet be a free market?

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 12, 2017
Two experts debate net neutrality.
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How to fix tech's sexual harassment problem

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 7, 2017
Sarah Kunst, founder and CEO of sports media company Proday, said hiring more women is only the start.
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KAYAK adds features to compete with Google

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jul 3, 2017
A baseball pulls up trips to Chicago, home of the Cubs.
People on vacation at the beach. 
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Why this ransomware attack is more alarming than the last

by Ben Johnson and Kristin Schwab
Jun 28, 2017
Chester Wisniewski, senior security researcher with Sophos, talks to us about the latest cyber breach.
Is your computer safe?
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