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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 (261)

Marketplace Minute

Apple joins AI race

Jun 10, 2024
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Job growth surprise

Jun 7, 2024
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Markets steady

Jun 6, 2024
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Markets hit new highs

Jun 5, 2024
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Job openings fall

Jun 4, 2024
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Return of the Meme stock

Jun 3, 2024
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Feds preferred gauge of inflation cools

May 31, 2024
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Markets retreat as GDP shows slowing economy

May 30, 2024
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Markets hover around record marks

May 20, 2024
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A vital, mostly invisible undersea industry is facing a labor shortage

May 16, 2024
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Latest Stories (524)

Workplace Culture

Why unlimited vacation isn't all it seems

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 31, 2019
Research finds employees with unlimited vacation actually take less time off.
Palm trees are silhouetted before the sunset sky at Waikiki beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Protests rock Hong Kong and its economy

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 30, 2019
Two months of massive demonstrations could be hampering tourism and international investment.
Protesters are enveloped by tear gas on a street during a demonstration in the area of Sheung Wan on July 28 in Hong Kong.
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A bumpy road for Nissan as profits plummet and layoffs loom

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 25, 2019
An executive scandal, questionable strategy, and outdated design dragged down the automaker's profits.
Nissan cars are displayed at a dealership on July 25, 2019 in New York City.
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Burnt out millennials turn to binge-streaming TV

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 23, 2019
In order to relieve stress, young people turn to streaming media more than exercise, sleep, drinking or drugs.
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Marvel's diverse new superheroes target broader box office success

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 22, 2019
The new slate of Marvel films will feature the first leading Asian superhero, deaf superhero and openly gay superhero.
Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson speak at the Marvel Studios Panel during 2019 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 20, 2019.
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Comic-Con at 50: still the place for epic fandom

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 19, 2019
What started as a small gathering of comics enthusiasts in 1970 has turned into a massive testament to the power of fandom.
A cosplayer makes her way to the convention center during Comic-Con in San Diego, California, on Thursday.
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Big Tech faces antitrust questions on Capitol Hill

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 16, 2019
The panel in the House Antitrust Committee comes amid bipartisan scrutiny of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple.
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High stakes in automaker labor negotiations

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 15, 2019
The Big Three have a profitable decade behind them. But from changing consumer tastes to the advent of the autonomous car, threats loom on the horizon.
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American workers can suffer vacation guilt ... if they take vacations at all

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 12, 2019
Many vacation days are left untaken or spent tethered to devices.
Fewer than half of U.S. workers use their vacation days, a U.S. Travel Association survey says. Above, tourists sunbathe on the Magaluf beach in Mallorca.
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Amazon's massive retraining investment includes nursing and aircraft mechanic degrees

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 11, 2019
The company will prepare 100,000 workers for advances in automation — and for new ventures it's exploring.
Men work at a distribution station in the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, in February.
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