Career
He is currently economics reporter for NBCNews.com
Schoen began his career as a newspaper reporter and editor in Connecticut, moving to Dow Jones as radio newscaster and writer for The Wall Street Journal. As a reporter for the Columbia Broadcasting System Radio Network’s half-hour program, Business Update, he covered Wall Street"s insider trading scandals and the Crash of "87. When the program was revamped as Marketplace, and production moved to Los Angeles, Schoen became the first New York editor, covering Wall Street and a variety of other business stories.
He joined Consumer News and Business Channel before it went on the air in 1989 and ran the network"s newsdesk during the early 1990s, managing news operations in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, London and Tokyo.
In 1996, Schoen joined Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com as a senior producer helping to launch the site. In 2012, the site became NBCNews.com, where he continues to write about a variety of business topics.
His reporting covers a wide range of topics, from Beijing to Berlin. In the summer of 2012, he reported on the economic and financial turmoil in Europe as a fellow with the Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor RTDNF German-American Journalist Exchange Program.
In 2010, Schoen was chosen as a fellow on the first China United States. Journalist Exchange, sponsored by the East West Center.
He produced a series of reports, China 2.0, describing the increasing strains on China’s rapidly growing economy. The report was one of the earliest to warn of the looming threat of a collapse of the housing market. Schoen was a 2005 finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
