Rob Schmitz is Marketplace’s China correspondent, based in Shanghai. Prior to joining Marketplace, Schmitz was the Los Angeles bureau chief for KQED’s The California Report. In 2012, he raised questions about the monologist Mike Daisey's reporting on working conditions in Apple factories in China. Whistle blower.
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