“Marketplace” covers the business of politics

Corinne Grinapol of Fishbowl DC interviewed Marketplace vice president and executive producer Deborah Clark about the business and economics radio program.

Here is an excerpt:

FishbowlDC: Marketplace focuses on business, economics and finance. In what ways does that focus allow Marketplace to cover political issues differently from other outlets?

Deborah Clark: What we try to do is carve out a distinct angle so that it isn’t the straightforward “here’s what happened” kind of approach, but to bring some kind of context and analysis to it.

I think that’s especially challenging and also great when we succeed at it around the issue of politics because it’s extremely well covered by a variety of print, online publications and also by our colleagues at NPR. They are in the beltway covering the minutia. We try not to do any of that. It can fall into the realm of not being interesting, so what we try to do is pull back and figure out what our specific focus is, and a lot of that ends up being about the business of politics and the business model of politics. We will take a bigger picture look at why [a piece of legislation] matters, how is that going to affect you, your personal economy, the country’s economy.

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