David Brancaccio

David A. Brancaccio (/brɒŋˈkɑːtʃioʊ/; born May 17, 1960) is an American radio and television journalist. He is the host of the public radio business program Marketplace Morning Report and, from 2003 to 2010, hosted the PBS newsmagazine Now.

Brancaccio was born in New York City and grew up in Waterville, Maine. His father, Patrick, is Italian American and his mother, Ruth, is Ashkenazi Jewish American.^{[failed verification]} He began his career in broadcasting as a news reader for Colby College's WMHB at the age of thirteen, then became a DJ on Waterville's WTVL 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 the program's Europe 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.

In 2003, Brancaccio left Marketplace to join Bill Moyers on Now. Brancaccio was co-host for over a year prior to Moyers' retirement at the end of 2004. On his last Now broadcast, Moyers said of Brancaccio:

I asked David to join me over a year ago because I wanted my successor to have grown up, as it were, in public broadcasting, an independent journalist, believing our job is to sift through the untidy realities, weigh the competing claims, and offer to you our considered approximation of what's really going on.

Brancaccio covered business innovation and the economy, politics, human rights, national security, the environment, health care, and science policy.

In 2007, Brancaccio won a national Emmy for coverage of a public health story in Kenya. In 2009, he won a Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in television political coverage. He also holds the David Brower award for Environmental Coverage from the Sierra Club. In 2005, Brancaccio conducted the last, long-form television interview with the legendary author Kurt Vonnegut. The last episode of Now was broadcast April 30, 2010.