Public Radio

I’d always been a keen writer, but after going through my twenties in various roles, wondering what my ‘career’ was meant to be, I found myself in a public radio newsroom and finally felt at home.

I worked in Marketplace’s New York bureau for seven years and during that time produced hundreds of daily news spots as well as features and live Q&As with the show’s hosts, on a wide variety of subjects.

Over the years I’ve also produced stories for NPR, Voice of America, the BBC World Service and various small shows.

All this radio work was the foundation for my entry into podcasting. But I still love radio and I don’t think it’s going away. With radio, there’s a sense of discovery and of learning things you didn’t expect simply by continuing to listen.

Selected Stories:

Universities have traditionally educated people at the beginning of their adult lives. But the number of undergraduates enrolling in U.S. colleges is dropping. Meanwhile the number of people over 55 is growing fast. Some colleges are offering programs aimed squarely at people at midlife who are asking, ‘what’s next?' Aired on Marketplace, March 2023.

Ever left your doctor or dentist and immediately been bombarded by texts and emails asking you to review the practice? You are far from alone. Those reviews are important to the business’s success, but their timing can be tone deaf. Aired on Marketplace, May 2022.

During Covid we’ve heard a lot about the struggles families are going through, especially working parents and their online-schooling kids. Yet a quarter of U.S. adults live by themselves. This piece focuses on what life has been like for people who live and work alone. Aired on Marketplace, March 2021.

When I started looking into a cookbook sales story I thought I’d find out that with the rise of the internet, sales had dropped. The opposite was true. This piece is about why physical cookbook sales are thriving in a digital world. Aired on Marketplace, December 2018.

This next story came out of my own observations at (vast) airports and concern for my own 70-something parent. The U.S. has an aging population that loves to travel, but are airports meeting their changing needs? Aired on Marketplace, July 2017.