Adrian Ma
Adrian Ma covers work, money and other "business-ish" for NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money.
His reporting has garnered national honors including a National Edward R. Murrow Award, a Gracie Award and a Public Media Journalists Association Award. Before joining NPR in 2021, he covered the business beat for member stations WBUR in Boston and WCPN in Cleveland.
He's reported on what it's like to deliver groceries during an outbreak, captured the final hours of a tiny cafe, and traveled to China to unpack how the trade war crushed a growing market for U.S. cranberries. He's also covered protests for racial justice, explored what it's like to drive for Amazon, and documented the curious ritual that is 'speed dating for economists.'
His interest in journalism began while studying media law at the University of Maryland School of Law. Later, while working for a judge in Baltimore, he decided to "roll the dice" and change careers. After obtaining a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, his first news job was as an assistant producer at WNYC in New York.
Some years ago, he worked as a prep cook in a ramen shop.
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Israel hits oil facilities in Tehran overnight, triggering huge explosions, as Iran targets infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait and the Middle East conflict enters day nine.
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Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution analyses the difficult line European leaders as they calculate their responses to the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran.
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Voters in Northwest Georgia are choosing who should replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene as voting closes in a special election Tuesday. In a crowded race, the weight of Trump's endorsement will be tested.
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The U.S. and Israeli war with Iran has entered a second week, with drones and missiles crisscrossing much of the Middle East and death tolls rising.
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The premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia, David Eby, explains why this Sunday is the beginning of a new era of permanent daylight saving time there.
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NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with author and journalist Kim Ghattas about the impacts the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran will have on the broader region.
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An NPR reporting team sheds new light on how Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used their access to the Interlochen Center for the Arts to target girls.
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How come it feels like it's all bad news in the global economy these days? According to one economist, something he calls the "doom loop."
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College football has become the uniquely American engine that pays for the training of future US Olympians. The Indicator's Wailin Wong and Adrian Ma go back in time to the Cold War to explain why.
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Across the country, districts are reckoning with school closures. At many schools, enrollment is low, and funding depends on students. We look at public education and what's leading to low enrollment.