Stephanie Hughes

Senior Reporter @Marketplace, focusing on education. Moving to

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

Today is my first day as a reporter @Marketplace! I'm moving from working with the excellent team at Marketplace Tech to reporting on economics and business more broadly, with a focus on education. What should I be covering? [email protected]

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

This speaks to me so hard.

[Will Oremus @WillOremus]

My first story for @TheAtlantic is about how ed tech slop is taking over American classrooms.

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It'll be two years this weekend that the Dow Jones went above 40,000 points for first time.

Now, it's above 50,000.

This is way crazy fast.

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

At the airport, opened the new Planet Money book, and love seeing all these names!

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Fantastic enterprise reporting from my colleague @meghamama on how much tech companies are spending on tokens to interact with A-I agents. Answer: it's a lot.

https://t.co/bs8eY2BSmN

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I just wrote the word "hungry" on my to-do list.

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View from the train

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Anyone else ever open their make up bag, and find that a compact has broken, covering basically everything in the bag with a sort of sparkly dirt?

Just me?

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

I just said "Same bat time, same bat channel" to a younger colleague, and then had a moment where I realized I was making a reference that they might not get at all.

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

This week for Marketplace Tech Bytes, @jewelmelanie and I covered:
- the new AI-only social network
- Alphabet's hundo bond
- our most-played songs. (hers: I Found My Smile Again by D'Angelo, mine: Golden from KPop Demon Hunters

[Gene Munster @munster_gene]

$META

Revenue up 24%, ahead of the Street at 22%, compared to 26% in September.

The engagement - ad flywheel continues to work.

Driving the ad number, grew DAU’s by 6.9% vs. 7.6% in September and 6.4% in June and 5.9% in March, 5% in Dec 24 and 4.8% in Sep 24.

Latest evidence about how addictive Meta’s products are.

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

Halloween is the one time of year where it makes sense that you held on to those space stickers for more than 2.5 years, because you now need them to be part of a costume jet pack.

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

There must be a better way to deal with a full voice mailbox than going through and deleting all the spam.

There is So. Much. Spam.

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Seven-year-old is listening to an @nprnews cast about Congress and the government shutdown, and looks at me, concerned “What’d they say about recess?”

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Hey @Ravens it’s #PoeTime!

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Site of first intense HIIT workout post-baby. Think I might throw up a little.

[Dan Ives @DivesTech]

Great to be on @Marketplace with @stephanie_h discussing the Trump Organization's plan for a phone and why we view making phones in the US as a non-starter for a number of reasons 🍿🎯📱👇

https://t.co/k2vDuMp9sj

[Stephanie Hughes @stephanie_h]

This week, I report on how core goods inflation -- which is goods, taking out food and energy -- could be where we see the effects of tariffs on prices first.

But not yet. That measure was up 0% in May from the month before.

https://t.co/63RXLiavA0

[Guy Berger @EconBerger]

Thanks to @stephanie_h at @Marketplace for chatting with me yesterday:

“People are also telling you, you know what? I actually think the bathtub is going to drain a lot faster in the next few months.”

https://t.co/hTNeHPS5Ma

[Roger Entner @RogerEntner]

Verizon feels the pain of federal layoffs in declining phone subscribers: https://t.co/ulMVUAamtB @Marketplace @stephanie_h

[Guy Berger @EconBerger]

“Things were good in mid-March, but what do they look like in mid-September?”

My pessimistic take on the coming damage to the US labor market, in conversation with @stephanie_h at @Marketplace .

https://t.co/psSYHaXdM4