David Brancaccio
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| Born |
May 17, 1960 Waterville, Maine, United States |
| Education |
Wesleyan University Stanford University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) |
California Connected Marketplace NOW |
David A. Brancaccio (/brɒŋˈkɑːtʃioʊ/; born May 17, 1960) is an American radio and television journalist. He has been the host of the public radio business program Marketplace and the PBS newsmagazine Now.
Brancaccio was born in New York City and grew up in Waterville, Maine. His father is Italian American and his mother is Ashkenazi Jewish American. He began his career in broadcasting on WTVL radio in 1976 at the age of fifteen. He received a Bachelor of Arts in African Studies and History from Wesleyan University in 1982 and a master's in journalism from Stanford University in 1988. He traveled widely, spending his fourth grade in Rome, his ninth grade in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar and his senior year in college in Legon, Ghana.
In 1989, Brancaccio began contributing to the public radio program Marketplace. He was first named as the program's European editor based in London. Brancaccio became senior editor and host of Marketplace in 1993. From London, Brancaccio also contributed diplomatic and feature coverage for the radio service of the Christian Science Monitor. During Brancaccio's tenure as host, Marketplace received the DuPont-Columbia Award (1998) and the George Foster Peabody Award (2001). He anchored the television newsmagazine, California Connected, that aired on many Californian PBS stations, from 2002 to 2003.
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