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Meghan McCarty Carino

Senior Reporter

SHORT BIO

Meghan McCarty Carino is a senior reporter at Marketplace headquarters in Los Angeles. She’s also a fill-in host on “Marketplace Tech.”

Since 2019, Meghan has covered workplace culture, from #MeToo to pandemic remote work, the movement for racial justice and the artificial intelligence boom.

In her free time she can often be found obsessing over pizza dough, cocktail experiments or her latest food and drink fixation. She tracks her favorite international sunscreens in a Google doc – just ask.

Meghan previously reported, hosted and produced for Los Angeles station KPCC/LAist, and got her start as an intern at KQED in San Francisco. Her work has won a National Headliner Award, Online Journalism Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, LA Press Club Award and has been featured by Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and the Center for Public Integrity.

Meghan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended UCLA and USC.

Episodes by Meghan (245)

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The hidden meanings of the AI industry’s favorite words

Apr 9, 2024
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Facial recognition part of Israel's arsenal in Gaza war

Apr 8, 2024
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Why crypto has made a comeback in the Philippines

Mar 25, 2024
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States and schools are learning how to manage AI in education

Mar 12, 2024
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AI can't handle the truth when it comes to the law

Mar 11, 2024
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Bitcoin has gone mainstream. For crypto, that's controversial.

Jan 22, 2024
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Older video games are in danger of going extinct (rerun)

Nov 23, 2023
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The game-changing work of Jerry Lawson (rerun)

Oct 16, 2023
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The race for China’s electric vehicle market

Oct 13, 2023
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The potential future of open-source generative AI

Jul 31, 2023
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Latest Stories (514)

Netflix looks to drive growth with games after boost from password crackdown

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 18, 2024
Netflix has bought game studios and made other investments, but it's playing at a "high-stakes table" with deep-pocketed competitors.
Netflix’s booth at the Gamescom video game fair in Cologne, Germany, last year. It's putting capital into its video game operation, but faces high-powered rivals.
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Filing your taxes this year may include more AI

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 15, 2024
Tax software companies like Intuit and H&R Block are turning to generative artificial intelligence to give products an edge.
Intuit and H&R Block introduced dueling AI assistants late last year, but experts say they're not wholly reliable.
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Broadband "nutrition labels" help you comparison shop for cable

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 11, 2024
Instead of tracking added sugar and fiber, they measure added fees and fiber speed.
An example of what a "broadband nutrition label" would look like.
Courtesy Federal Communications Commission
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A typical home costs $1 million or more in a record number of U.S. cities

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 10, 2024
Zillow find that million-dollar homes are proliferating — and not just in the usual high-cost metro areas like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Median home values were north of $1 million in 550 cities in February, according to Zillow.
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Tech is supercharging pre-employment personality tests

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 8, 2024
Psychometrics assessments boosted by AI aim to quantify seemingly intangible qualities like personality and emotional intelligence.
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Tired of your boss bugging you after hours? You want the "right to disconnect"

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 4, 2024
A bill in the California legislature would make the state the first in the nation to offer what's already law in France and about a dozen other countries.
In California, AB 2751 would give workers a right to uninterrupted personal time, free from work-related calls and messages.
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RV sales could be an indicator of a smoother ride for the economy

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 1, 2024
Sales of these expensive vehicles peaked in 2021, decelerated by more than 50% last year, and are starting to turn up again. That can tell us something about the economy overall.
"RVs do extraordinarily well in predicting business cycles because they’re such a big, volatile consumption piece for most American consumers," says economist Michael Hicks.
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Home Depot bets on big construction projects with new acquisition

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 28, 2024
The home improvement company is buying SRS Distribution, a roofing, landscaping and pool construction supplier, for $18 billion.
Spending on home renovations spiked in 2021 and 2022. "Now what we're going through is a correction and a stabilizing," says Carlos Martín at Harvard University.
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Strong, stable labor market may signal new normal to Federal Reserve

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 21, 2024
Unemployment claims fell last week. Despite relatively high interest rates, they're below pre-pandemic levels and near historic lows.
Job cuts have been concentrated at big tech and finance companies, said Andy Challenger at Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Above, Fed Chair Jerome Powell at his news conference Wednesday.
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Retailers like Macy's want a bigger slice of e-commerce ad sales

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 13, 2024
Selling ads on e-commerce sites is a $50 billion industry. Amazon dominates retail media, taking in about 75% of ad dollars.
Macy’s has announced plans to close 150 underperforming stores across the U.S. in coming years.
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