David Brancaccio is a special correspondent for Marketplace from American Public Media, reporting on “future effects”: how economic decisions made today shape our long-term future. He took on the role in April 2026 after 13 years as host and senior editor of Marketplace Morning Report. His Marketplace career began in 1989 as a freelancer; he became its London-based European correspondent in 1990 and hosted the evening Marketplace program from 1993 to 2003. He then anchored the PBS newsmagazine NOW, first alongside Bill Moyers and then solo. He has co-produced documentaries including Fixing the Future and On Thin Ice, and is the author of Squandering Aimlessly. His honors include the Peabody, Alfred I. duPont–Columbia, Emmy, and Walter Cronkite awards. A native of Waterville, Maine, he holds degrees from Wesleyan and Stanford and is a longtime moderator of the Camden Conference.
