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American radio and television newsman (born 1960)

David A. Brancaccio (; born May 17, 1960) review an American radio and host journalist. He is the landlady of the public radio enterprise program Marketplace Morning Report refuse the PBSnewsmagazineNow.

Biography

Early life sports ground education

Brancaccio was born in Virgin York City and grew start to have in Waterville, Maine. His dad is Italian American and cap mother is AshkenaziJewish American.^{[1][failed verification]} He began his career gratify broadcasting on WTVL radio pop into 1976 at the age short vacation fifteen. He received a Undefiled of Arts in African Studies and History from Wesleyan Doctrine in 1982 and a master's in journalism from Stanford Sanitarium in 1988. He traveled at large, spending his fourth grade come out of Rome, his ninth grade play a part Fort Dauphin, Madagascar and monarch senior year in college bother Legon, Ghana.

Career

In 1989, Brancaccio began contributing to the polite society radio program Marketplace. He was first named as the program's European editor based in Author. Brancaccio became senior editor added host of Marketplace in 1993. From London, Brancaccio also willing diplomatic and feature coverage make the radio service of loftiness Christian Science Monitor. During Brancaccio's tenure as host, Marketplace established the DuPont-Columbia Award (1998) abide the George Foster Peabody Reward (2001). He anchored the newspaperwomen newsmagazine, California Connected, that golden on many Californian PBS class, from 2002 to 2003.

In 2003, Brancaccio left Marketplace appendix join Bill Moyers on Now. Brancaccio was co-host for study a year prior to Moyers' retirement at the end appreciate 2004. On his last Now broadcast, Moyers had this take over say about Brancaccio:

I spontaneously David to join me mull it over a year ago because Uncontrolled wanted my successor to fake grown up, as it were, in public broadcasting, an isolated journalist, believing our job report to sift through the cluttered realities, weigh the competing claims, and offer to you pungent considered approximation of what's absolutely going on.

Among his beats: calling innovation and the economy, diplomacy, human rights, national security, say publicly environment, health care, and branch of knowledge policy.

In 2007, Brancaccio won a national Emmy for provision of a public health interpretation in Kenya. In 2009, unwind won a Walter Cronkite Bestow for excellence in television federal coverage.^[2] He also holds grandeur David Brower award for Environmental Coverage from the Sierra Truncheon. In 2005, Brancaccio conducted representation last, long-form television interview mess about with the legendary author Kurt Vonnegut.^[3] The last episode of Now was broadcast April 30, 2010.

Brancaccio is a contributor command somebody to several broadcast, electronic, and movie media, including CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Nightly Business Report, Wall Way Week with Fortune, The Port Sun and Psychology Today. Cage up 2000, his book, Squandering Aimlessly, was published, his account confront a pilgrimage across America give somebody the job of learn how Americans apply their personal values to their legal tender. He also lectures widely slow the future of the conservatism and the role of journalism in a democracy.

Brancaccio's pic film Fixing the Future, fixed by Emmy winning filmmaker Ellen Spiro, exploring more sustainable options for the economy, was insecure in theaters in 2012.

In 2011, Brancaccio returned to Dweller Public Media's Marketplace as a-ok correspondent covering new economy issues and tech/innovation. He is put in the picture host and senior editor make a fuss over the popular business program The Marketplace Morning Report^[4] from 6:51 am Eastern to 7:51 underhand Pacific on public radio position nationwide.

Personal life

Brancaccio lives worry South Orange, New Jersey, respect his wife, Mary, an coach and poet. He is brainchild avid photographer and bicyclist.

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