David Brancaccio to move into correspondent role at ‘Marketplace’

David Brancaccio will step back as host of Marketplace Morning Report next week and transition into a new role as special correspondent. 

His beat will focus on the long term effects of economic decisions, APM said in a Tuesday press release. 

“Let’s all agree, a key driver of so many bad money decisions at the personal, corporate and policy levels is short-term thinking,” Brancaccio said. “Let’s go long and see what we learn.” 

“I’ll miss my wonderful morning team, but I won’t miss the 2 a.m. morning alarm!” 

“This new assignment for David feels hyper relevant in a time of tremendous change,” said Jean Taylor, CEO of American Public Media Group, which operates APM, Minnesota Public Radio and Southern California Public Radio. “David’s voice and insights always bring something to a story that you can’t get anywhere else.” 

Marketplace correspondents Sabri Ben-Achour and Amy Scott will share the Morning Report hosting role on an interim basis after April 10. APM expects to announce a permanent host in the coming weeks. 

Brancaccio has moved from hosting to reporting roles during his long tenure with Marketplace, where he started in 1989 as a freelancer. After a stint as the program’s London correspondent that began in 1990, he hosted the flagship series Marketplace from 1993 to 2003. He spent seven years as co-anchor and solo anchor of PBS’ NOW with Bill Moyers, which ended in   2010, then returned to Marketplace as a special correspondent. Brancaccio hosted Marketplace Tech Report before moving into the host job at Marketplace Morning Report in 2013.

“We are so appreciative of the work David has done over the past 13 years to become such an important part of our listeners’ mornings,” said Neal Scarbrough, Marketplace’s VP and GM. “But we are even more excited about how David will help our audiences understand the ways a brighter economic future for all is possible as long as we do not repeat the economic mistakes of the past.”

Marketplace Morning Report is carried by 791 public radio stations nationwide and is downloaded 1.5 million times each month, according to APM.