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Peter Balonon-Rosen

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Peter produced the narrative podcasts “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” He also reported radio features for Marketplace’s radio programs, wrote for our website and served as an in-studio and field photographer.

What was your first job?

Dishwasher

What do you think is the hardest part of your job that no one knows?

Video conferences.

In your next life, what would your career be?

Foley artist.

Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______.

Snacks for the snack desk.

What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment?

Seeking out tornadoes with storm chasers for half a week to report a story about the business of storm chasing. Watching severe storms develop over the prairies of Nebraska was breathtaking.

Episodes by Peter (10)

The Uncertain Hour | Season 6 | Episode 4

Chapter 4: The Battle of Newburgh

Apr 12, 2023
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The Uncertain Hour | Season 6 | Episode 3

Chapter 3: Race and rumor

Apr 5, 2023
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Marketplace Tech

YouTube and content creators clash over the platform's automated copyright tool

Nov 22, 2022
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This Is Uncomfortable | Season 7 | Episode 6

Bait & switch

Nov 17, 2022
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The Uncertain Hour | Season 5 | Episode 7

Inside baseball

Mar 17, 2021
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The Uncertain Hour | Season 5 | Episode 4

The liquid workforce

Feb 24, 2021
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This Is Uncomfortable | Season 2 | Episode 22

Money makes me sick

Jul 16, 2020
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The Uncertain Hour | Season 4 | Episode 3

Unemployment benefits are hard to get. That’s on purpose.

May 27, 2020
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This Is Uncomfortable | Season 1 | Episode 23

Love thy neighbor, and pay off their debts, too

Nov 14, 2019
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This Is Uncomfortable | Season 1 | Episode 10

What dad left behind

Aug 15, 2019
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Latest Stories (47)

YouTube's automated copyright tool riles up musicians

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Nov 4, 2022
Content ID determines when content is copyrighted and can divert payments to the rights holder. But few artists have access to the tool.
YouTube limits access to its copyright tool, Content ID, to about 9,000 movie studios, record labels and publishers.
-/AFP via Getty Images
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When is "fair use" fair? In Warhol copyright case, Supreme Court could offer new answers.

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Oct 7, 2022
An upcoming case could redefine how artists make art and whether they get paid for it.
Was Andy Warhol's use of Lynn Goldsmith's Prince photo fair use? The Supreme Court will weigh in.
Courtesy Supreme Court of the United States
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Her church asked her to pay someone else's debt. She was in.

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Nov 19, 2019
The church has helped over 20 people pay off $100,000 in credit card debt. The secret lies in treating credit card debt as a community problem, rather than an individual one.
Caroline Butcher teaches a dance class at Eastern University in Pennsylvania.
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The emotional struggle of receiving an inheritance

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Aug 21, 2019
When money, death and grief mix there's no playbook for what to do. And for years, one young man has been stuck.
Dean Antonio, whose father passed away in 2017. After his dad's death, Dean got a sizeable inheritance that he's been conflicted about having.
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From cringeworthy to scary: a history of anti-drug PSAs

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Mar 26, 2019
We remember anti-drug PSAs for reasons their makers didn't intend.
Illustration by Rose Conlon, images courtesy of Partnership for a Drug-Free America, National Crime Prevention Council and Truth.
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As 70 mm film sees a comeback, who's running those projectors?

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Sep 27, 2018
A mainstream surge in the format meets a depleted projectionist industry.
Genevieve Havemeyer-King practices threading a 70 mm projector at the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Brooklyn, New York.
Peter Balonon-Rosen/Marketplace
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The world's unlikely capital of heavy metal

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Sep 7, 2018
When a tiny, rural Finnish town of 3,000 residents earned the title it presented a wild opportunity.
Finnish thrash metal band Stam1na performing at the 2014 Rakuuna Rock festival in Lappeenranta, Finland. The band's hometown Lemi, population 3,076, was recently crowned the Capital of Metal.
Tuomas Vitkainen/Wikimedia Commons
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How storm chasers turn tornadoes into tourist attractions

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Jun 28, 2018
A growing industry is offering a front row seat to extreme weather.
Dylan Johnson for Marketplace
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Economics of Disability

Special education costs add up for parents, schools as federal law remains underfunded

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Jun 22, 2018
For the first time, schools are legally required to make special education meaningful. But they've been given no additional money to make it happen.
[Image Description: Numerous toys are spread across a child’s playground. The ground is sandy. A pink children’s seat is in the middle of the image, with a yellow toy truck and multi-colored doll house behind it. In the background is a blue set of benches.]
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Why a trucker shortage really, really matters

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Jun 15, 2018
The U.S. is facing a national trucker shortage. With the economy in an upswing, there’s more of a demand for goods than there are people to transport them. As carriers try to attract drivers with perks and pay raises, companies that rely on shipping say an unexpected rise in shipping costs has forced them to […]
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