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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 (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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Marketplace Tech

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

May 16, 2024
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Latest Stories (524)

Maybe a recession is not as imminent as we think

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 23, 2019
Retails sales are up, wages are rising and economists are beginning to revise their thinking.
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Workplace Culture

College graduates see best job and pay prospects in years, survey says

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 22, 2019
The tight labor market is translating into one of the most robust hiring seasons for college grads in recent years.
Nearly 300,000 students attended HBCUs in 2015.
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Zoom goes public as video takes over conference rooms

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 17, 2019
Video meetings have made it possible to work remotely from pretty much anywhere. But there's still no substitute for in person eye contact. And you have to do your hair.
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Uber targets $100B valuation for IPO as Lyft shares slide

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 10, 2019
The company has actually lowered its expectations.
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How does this year's wave of IPOs compare to 1999's?

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 8, 2019
The social-networking site Pinterest has set a price range for its initial public offering. At the peak price of $17 per share, the company would be worth a little over $11 billion, down from an estimate of $12 billion last year. Pinterest is part of this year’s wave of IPOs, which started with Lyft last […]
Microsoft Corporation stock information is seen at the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1999.
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Gallo seeks to uncork lower-end wine market

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 4, 2019
E. & J. Gallo is buying roughly 30 inexpensive wine brands from Constellation Brands.
E. & J. Gallo is buying roughly 30 inexpensive wine brands from Constellation Brands.
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Could falling interest rates mean a pick-up in hiring by mortgage lenders?

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 3, 2019
It looks like refinancing is making a comeback in the housing market. Dropping interest rates have brought a spike in applications to refinance mortgage loans. According to a report from financial analysts Black Knight, about 5 million homeowners in the US could benefit, saving hundreds of dollars a month. But is it a boon for […]
Pedestrians pass by a sign advertising low refinance rates at a US Bank office in San Francisco, Calif.
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Lyft issues IPO, but its path to profitability is still unclear

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 29, 2019
Like Uber, Lyft has not been profitable to date.
The number of Lyft shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.
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It's showtime! After these 617 credits

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jan 4, 2019
If you took some time over the holidays to catch a movie or two, chances are you sat through a lot of stuff that was not the movie, but a list of names on a screen. You get the pre-movie credits, you get the post-movie credits, which might have an Easter egg hidden in them, […]
Movies today have increasingly complex visual effects, like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," which credits over 20 different visual effects companies.
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Blackberry users don't care what analysts say

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Dec 19, 2018
Mock it all you want. Blackberry has staying power.
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