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 New York:Poll results are everywhere during national elections. But what do the nation's pollsters do when it's not an election year...
From Boston: About 45 million Americans have no health insurance. How to cover more of them is a big issue this election season.
From Los Angeles: If you're among the millions of Internet-shoppers, you've probably used PayPal... The online payment service is used for countless cyber-transactions every day. But beginning tomorrow PayPal will begin fining users $500 if they use the service to pay for porn, gambling, or illegal drugs.
From Los Angeles: If you've ever sneaked a peek at the nutritional information on your favorite sinful snack... You may have noticed it's not as bad as you feared.
From New York: General Kofi Annan recently received a letter from UN union representatives urging him not to send any more employees to Iraq...
From Beijing: The Videogame company that brought you titles like The Sims is planning to set up a studio in China next year.
From Los Angeles: The Business Council surveyed CEOs of some of the largest U.S. companies on their feelings about the economy...
From Paris: Cannes isn't just a film festival. It's also host to MIPCOM, one of the world's largest television tradeshows. Over one thousand television companies, from 57 countries, are holed up on the French Riviera to buy and sell TV programs.
Features
What's it all about, Alfie?
You've heard the classic campaign phrase, "it's the economy, stupid," but is that what's really influencing voters this year? Marketplace's money expert Chris Farrell tells host Kai Ryssdal what he thinks voters are really keyed into at this point in the campaign season.
The joy of self-publishing
Authors have been known to go to extremes to get their work published. And every once in a while, it pays off. Marketplace's Lisa Napoli has the story of two authors who've become their own publishers and marketers.
Jock perks on campus
You've heard about college football players getting special perks, but academic credit for practice and games? It's more common than you think. Host Tess Vigeland gets the score from Marketplace's Business of Sports commentator David Carter.
Thursday, October 7, 2004
