
Amy also won a Gracie Allen Award for feature reporting in 2006.īefore joining Marketplace, Amy worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run. In 2009, she spent a month reporting in Germany as a McCloy Fellow. In addition to leading Marketplace’s New York coverage of the financial crisis, Amy hit the road for two cross-country trips, exploring how Americans experienced the fallout. In 2008, she produced stories for Marketplace’s remote broadcasts from Egypt and Dubai for the “Middle East Work” series. From 2003 to 2010, she reported from Marketplace’s New York bureau, focusing on the culture of Wall Street, and becoming bureau chief in 2008. Other honors include a 2010 National Headliner Award and a special citation from the Education Writers Association for an investigation of recruiting abuses at the University of Phoenix, co-reported with Sharona Coutts of ProPublica.Īmy joined Marketplace as a production assistant in September 2001, moving in 2002 to Washington, D.C., as a staff reporter. Their work also won first prize for investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association.

Murrow award for their investigation of agencies that place Chinese students in U.S. In 2012, Amy and Marketplace China correspondent Rob Schmitz won a national Edward R. The film grew out of the year-long Marketplace series “One School, One Year,” which won a 2014 Gracie Award. OYLER has screened at film festivals around the country and was broadcast on public television in 2016. In 2015, Amy completed the documentary film OYLER, about a Cincinnati public school fighting to break the cycle of poverty in its traditionally Urban Appalachian neighborhood.


She's based in Denver.įrom 2010 to 2018 Amy was Marketplace's education correspondent, covering the business of education from pre-K-12 through higher ed and its role in economic mobility.

Amy Scott is Marketplace’s senior correspondent covering housing and the economy and a frequent guest host of our programs.
