The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories.
Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.
From Washington: The Bush Administration is considering whether to impose economic sanctions on Saudi Arabia. It's just received a report from the State Department condemning the lack of religious freedom in the oil rich nation.
From Austin: The Austin City Limits TV show launches its third annual music festival today. The celebrations are expected to attract 75,000 people a day and bring $15 million into the local economy.
From Los Angeles: A message in a new report the Federal Trade Commission submitted to Congress was simple: If you really want to catch those pesky spammers, you've got to put your money where your mouth is.
From Alabama: It will be days before Alabama and other southern states know the full extent of damage from Hurricane Ivan.
From New York: You know when you buy a ticket on one airline, but the flight's actually operated by another? Delta and Alaska airlines have become the latest carriers to team up in a so-called code-sharing agreement.
From Boston: The cost of drugs is a hot political topic - but it's also a reason why some patients don't take their medications as directed.
From Washington: GE's looking to sell out...it's outsourcing. It's putting on the market a $400 million dollar offshore operation - known as GE Capital International Services.
Features
Japanese still rules
With China's booming economy, it makes sense that more American students would want to study Chinese. But, more U.S. students are studying Japanese, too... despite Japan's stagnant economy. Marketplace's Jessica Smith finds out why.
The first copy ...
Xerox: At one time, it was just an unknown company. Then, it discovered photocopying and everything changed. Host Kai Ryssdal talks about the creation of one of the world's biggest communications breakthroughs with David Owen, author of "Copies in Seconds."
The Job Files!
You're familiar by now with the web log, or "blog" phenomenon. Some people actually get paid to post their every thought on the internet ... as you'll hear in today's edition of the Job Files.
Boardwalk of dreams...
Atlantic City, New Jersey puts on its best face this weekend for the Miss America Pageant. To some, the event is one of the last remnants of glamour in a city once that once thrived as a popular vacation resort. Host Lisa Napoli talks with Bryant Simon, the author of Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the fate of Urban America about the town's many transitions.
Friday, September 17, 2004
