Marketplace's four-part investigative series was produced by Karen Lowe. "Spoils of War" was produced in cooperation with the Center for Investigative Reporting, with funding from The Economist magazine.
Karen Lowe, Editor & Producer: Karen Lowe became Marketplace's foreign editor in 1999. Before coming to Marketplace, she worked for Agence France-Presse for more than a decade, both in Washington as an editor and a reporter covering Asian affairs, and in Los Angeles where she covered the western United States. Prior to AFP, she spent seven years working in Latin America for a variety of publications. Her work has appeared in Time magazine, the Miami Herald, the Baltimore Sun and the Boston Globe. She covered the final years of military president Joao Baptista Figuereido and the tumultuous rise of the labor movement in Brazil; the Haitain refugee crisis in Puerto Rico and Cuba; the US invasion of Grenada, Chile's referendum ending Pinochet's rule, and Hurricane Mitch in Honduras.
Mark Schapiro, Correspondent: Mark Schapiro is deputy editorial director for the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. He is an award-winning journalist focusing on international, environmental and corporate investigations. His work appears in print -- in Harper's, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly and other publications -- and on television, where he has worked as a correspondent-reporter for Frontline World and NOW With Bill Moyers.
Adam Davidson, Correspondent: Adam Davidson is the Middle East Correspondent for Marketplace. He has reported from Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Kuwait. He is also a frequent contributor to public radio's This American Life and writes for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine and other publications. He has reported from the Middle East for years, focusing on Iraq for the past year. Speaking Hebrew and Arabic, he has developed close ties to many important and everyday figures in the region. He is among the longest-serving journalists in Baghdad and has developed a rich understanding of the economic and business issues that affect the powerful and the powerless, both Americans and Iraqis in the new Iraq.
J.J. Yore, Executive Producer: J.J. Yore has been a reporter, editor and broadcast producer for nearly 20 years. As executive producer, he oversees Marketplace's morning news service and its daily half-hour afternoon program. In that capacity, he is responsible for setting the program's overall editorial direction and tone, as well as for recruiting high-profile contributors to Marketplace. Yore oversees a staff of 15 editors and producers based in Los Angeles, with bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston. Yore began his journalism career in the early 1980's as a general assignment reporter at The Jackson Daily in Jackson, Mississippi where he covered numerous local and national stories. Yore has written for many publications including The Washington Post, Channels, American Journalism Review and Regardie's. He graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1981.
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