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Brancaccio's career as a journalist includes his current role as the host of the long-running PBS news magazine '' NOW ''. Brancaccio is based in New Jersey, where he lives with his wife and three children. CAREER Early career The son of Ruth and Patrick Brancaccio, David grew up in Oakland, Maine . Brancaccio began his career in public broadcasting in 1973. He received a B.A. in African Studies and History from Wesleyan University in 1982 and a master's in journalism from Stanford University in 1988. In 1989, Brancaccio began contributing to the PRI program '' Marketplace ''. He was soon named as the program's European editor. Brancaccio became ''Marketplace's'' host and senior editor in 1993. Under Brancaccio's direction the program received the Dupont-Columbia Award (1998) and the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award (2001). In addition, he anchored '' California Connected '', a television Newsmagazine that airs on many California n PBS stations, from 2002 to 2003. Hosting "NOW" In 2003 Brancaccio left ''Marketplace'', to join 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, Bill Moyers had this to say about Mr. 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. Other works Brancaccio has contributed to many other broadcast, electronic, and print media, including CNN , CNBC , '' The Wall Street Journal '', '' Alternet '' and '' Psychology Today ''. He has also has written the book '' Squandering Aimlessly '' (Simon & Schuster, 2000; Touchstone, 2001), which documents the spending habits of a diverse cross-section of Americans . EXTERNAL LINKS
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