Host – David Brancaccio

David Brancaccio, Host

David Brancaccio

David Brancaccio is the host of American Public Media’s Marketplace Morning Report. Marketplace is the most popular business program in the United States. His reporting focuses on the future of the economy, financial and labor markets, technology, the environment and social enterprises.

In the early 1990s, Brancaccio was Marketplace’s European correspondent based in London, and he hosted Marketplace’s evening program from 1993 to 2003. He co­anchored the PBS television news magazine program NOW with journalist Bill Moyers from 2003 to 2005, before taking over as the program’s solo anchor in 2005. His feature­length documentary film, Fixing the Future, appeared in theaters nationwide in 2012. Among his awards for broadcast journalism are the Peabody, the DuPont­Columbia, the Cronkite, and the Emmy. His new podcast, Esquire Classic, draws from Esquire Magazine’s huge archive of non­fiction writing.

Brancaccio has a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University. He has appeared on CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, and BBC World Service Television; his newspaper work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Britain’s The Guardian. Brancaccio is author of the book Squandering Aimlessly, an exploration of how Americans apply their personal values to their money.