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Donna Tam

Executive Editor

SHORT BIO

Donna Tam is the executive editor of Marketplace, overseeing the newsroom’s editors, reporters, producers, and hosts. She is invested in building on the legacy of Marketplace’s award-winning journalism to serve a new public media audience.

After joining Marketplace in 2016 as a digital editor, Donna led the digital team before stepping into the newsroom’s first bridging role: senior project manager, with a focus on connecting editorial initiatives to audience growth and revenue opportunities. She continued that work as director of on-demand, eventually leading the podcast, newsletter and social media teams. Her past life includes covering tech news at CNET and local news at daily newspapers.

Latest Stories (110)

Mapping North Carolina's trans-friendly bathrooms

by Donna Tam
Mar 29, 2016
As the state's new law faces a federal lawsuit, one woman decides to highlight businesses with "safe bathrooms."
Urinals hang on a wall in a newly-inaugurated gender-free toilet in Berlin, Germany. North Carolina businesses are making similar adjustments to protest a new state law.
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Are payday loans hurting minorities?

by Donna Tam
Mar 24, 2016
A new report looking at payday lending in Florida reveals these businesses are more than twice as likely to be in African American and Latino communities than predominantly white neighborhoods.
In Florida, payday loan stores are twice as likely to be located in a neighborhood where African Americans and Latinos live.
Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Who were the executives hanging out with Obama in Cuba?

by Donna Tam and Sarah Menendez
Mar 22, 2016
If you want a taste of what the U.S. wants for Cuba's future, just take a look at the business leaders joining the president's tour of the country.
President Obama with Cuban and American business leaders. 
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A missed opportunity? When Nokia doubted the iPhone

by Donna Tam
Mar 17, 2016
Before the iPhone was synonymous with the word "smartphone," some in the industry questioned if consumers would actually buy it.
New iPhone covers are displayed on screen during a Special Event at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on September 9, 2015 in San Francisco, California.
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SeaWorld is phasing out orca shows, but what about the dolphins?

by Donna Tam
Mar 17, 2016
The amusement park has vowed to stop its killer whale breeding program, but no word on the treatment of its other marine mammal stars.
Bella, a bottlenose dolphin, swims in a pool with her new calf named Mirabella at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California in 2014.
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How Ferguson police will change the way they work

by Donna Tam and Sarah Menendez
Mar 16, 2016
The reforms mandated by a federal settlement aim to change how the FPD interacts with the public, but could cost the city an estimated $7 million.
A Ferguson police officer listens to the concerns of a protester as they demonstrate outside the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri on March 4, 2015.
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Tuition-free university launches MBA program

by Donna Tam
Mar 15, 2016
Paying too much for a Masters of Business Administration? This school wants to fix that.
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The real life crusade of a Twitter book hustler

by Donna Tam
Mar 14, 2016
Up-and-comer writer Shea Serrano was just hoping someone would buy his $12 rap book. What he got was a spot on the New York Times’ best-sellers list and a social media marketing machine that can help other writers sell books.
Abrams Books
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Credit scores, climate change and the presidential election

by Donna Tam
Mar 14, 2016
What does your credit score say about your political views?
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks to supporters at a town hall meeting at Brilex Industries, Inc. on Monday in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Scientists want to ID terrorists using their ‘V’ hand gestures

by Donna Tam
Mar 11, 2016
A new study documents the potential role of AI technology and biometrics in fighting terrorism.
A man gestures through a smashed window after making a bomb threat near Sydney, Australia.
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