 Marketplace,
the award-winning daily program about
business and finance, is a fresh, new
way of reporting business and finance
subjects to the general listener. Putting
a human face on the global economy,
the program illuminates the ways that
international business and finance
relate to listeners' daily lives.
Anchored by Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace
draws on an international group of
contributing reporters, producers,
and commentators for its stories.
The business magazine is a 29-minute
evening program, airing weekdays
in more than 330 markets. In addition
to its 10 U.S.-based news bureaus,
Marketplace has international bureaus
in London and Tokyo.
Kai Ryssdal took the reins as host
of Marketplace in August 2005. He
previously hosted the Marketplace
Morning Report for more than four
years.
Before joining Marketplace, Kai
was a reporter and subsitute host
for The California Report, a news
and information program distributed
to public radio stations throughout
California by KQED-FM in San Francisco.
His radio work has won first place
awards from the Radio and Television
News Directors Association and the
national Public Radio News Directors
Association.
After graduating from Emory University
in Atlanta, Kai spent eight years
in the United States Navy, first
flying from the aircraft carrier
U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and then
as a Pentagon staff officer. Before
his career in public radio, Kai was
a member of the United States Foreign
Service and served in Ottawa, Canada,
and Beijing, China. |
Marketplace
is public radio's daily magazine of business
and economics. Host Kai Ryssdal presents
Marketplace Morning Report every weekday
morning, and the expanded Marketplace report
weeknights. Tune in to hear a program which
is both interesting and fun -- for normal
human beings, not CEO's. 
