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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)

Is there a global chocolate shortage coming?

by Donna Tam
Jun 7, 2016
Exporters are taking issue with a recent batches of cocoa beans, an important ingredient in chocolate.
Chocolates are assembled into a gift box at a New York City shop in 2007. Demand for cocoa beans, a main chocolate ingredient, has been high for many years, but the supply continues to suffer. 
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Soccer star Pele sells ‘Victory’ boots for more than $9,000

by Donna Tam
Jun 7, 2016
The retired athlete has already raised thousands of dollars with the sale of his personal memorabilia.
Former soccer player Pele speaks with children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2014. The athlete's auction of memorabilia begins today and a portion of the proceeds will go to a children's hospital in Brazil.
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OPEC fails to set a cap on oil output but prices still go up

by Donna Tam
Jun 2, 2016
The group overseeing 40 percent of the world's oil production is not agreeing on a policy.
Kuwait Oil Company workers change pipes on a drilling rig in 2003 on the northern border between Iraq and Kuwait in Kuwait. Kuwait is a member of OPEC, a group responsible for 40 percent of the world's crude oil. The group failed to agree on an oil cap Thursday.
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Social media censorship from around the world

by Donna Tam
May 27, 2016
Here are the governments really that don’t “like” social media.
A computer screen displaying the logo of social networking site Facebook is reflected in a window before the Beijing skyline. China's government is one of the toughest when it comes to censoring social media.
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So, could Donald Trump get paid to debate Bernie Sanders?

by Donna Tam
May 26, 2016
That’s not as outrageous as it might sound.
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Friday. Trump has once again posed the question of why networks don't pay him to do their televised debates.
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Low employment rates for black and Latino teens reveal a bigger problem

by Donna Tam
May 24, 2016
A new study confirms concern over access to education and job training for millions of young Americans.
A youth person fills out job applications at the Opportunity Fair and Forum in Chicago on Aug. 13 in Chicago, Illinois. A new study shows that teen unemployment rates may reflect a bigger issue.
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for 100,000 Opportunities Initiative
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Let’s do the numbers: America’s multibillion-dollar weapons business

by Donna Tam
May 23, 2016
The U.S. is lifting its ban on selling lethal weapons to Vietnam. What does this mean for America's weapons business?
Models of missiles at the Vietnam People's Air Force Museum on May 23 in Hanoi, Vietnam. U.S. President Barack Obama announced the U.S. is fully lifting its embargo on sales of lethal weapons to Vietnam.
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Uber drivers get union representation — sort of

by Donna Tam
May 10, 2016
The ride-hailing company makes a deal with a union to represent New York drivers, but it won’t have any bargaining power.
Uber driver representatives speak to hundreds of Uber drivers as they protest the company's recent fare cuts and went on strike in front of the car service's New York offices in February. The company just struck a deal to formalize a drivers' group to represent the independent contractors during meetings with Uber management.
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Puerto Rico's debt could hurt a response to Zika

by Donna Tam
May 9, 2016
Stopping the spread of the virus requires funding — something the debt-ridden territory has trouble providing.
In the U.S., health departments are preparing to contain the spread of Zika virus with a response that includes educational materials like the pictured literature. But U.S. territory Puerto Rico is struggling with its own preparations, given its massive debt.
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Lyft and Uber say they’re leaving Austin

by Donna Tam
May 9, 2016
The ride-hailing companies lose on an expensive campaign to stop a safety measure. It's a fight they'll have to take up in other cities as well.
The Lyft mustache is used to identify the ride-hailing app's drivers. The company, along with rival Uber, said it is leaving Austin after failing to overturn the city's safety measure. 
Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Lyft
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