Kenny Malone
Kenny Malone is a correspondent for NPR's Planet Money podcast. Before that, he was a reporter for WNYC's Only Human podcast. Before that, he was a reporter for Miami's WLRN. And before that, he was a reporter for his friend T.C.'s homemade newspaper, Neighborhood News.
Kenny's stories have investigated everything from abuse in Florida's assisted living facilities to health hackers building their own pancreas to the origins of seemingly made-up holidays like National Raisin Day. Or National Golf Day. Or National Splurge Day.
His work has won the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Use of Sound, the National Headliner Award, the Scripps Howard Award, and the Bronze Third Coast Festival Award. He studied mathematics at Xavier University in Cincinnati and proudly hails from Meadville, PA, where the zipper was invented.
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A New Jersey business owner stumbles onto a real-life international conspiracy: He discovers that a powerful group of people get together and set international shipping rates.
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You have a lot of questions... about tariffs, unemployment rates, and RV dealerships, to name a few. We have answers. -
Is there a secretive postal organization fixing international shipping rates, and giving American businesses a bad deal? -
The group has watched its membership grow more than sevenfold in three years, and New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has pushed the group even further into the limelight. -
Socialism was political poison in the U.S. for decades. Now it's gaining ground. Who are these new socialists? And what do they want? -
LeBron James is getting hosed. The NBA team owners, the players, the fans and even LeBron James himself want to keep it that way. -
Fake product reviews are wrecking the internet. But help is on the way: From a bodybuilding fake review hunter. -
The medical world has been trying to cure color blindness for centuries. Then a glass scientist figured it out. By accident. -
Building a community around the arts is a buzzy, modern idea. But 25 years ago it was just a crazy idea. NPR's Planet Money looks at what happened when a teeny, peanut-farming town in Georgia tried to save itself by writing, staging and starring in an original musical.
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Today on the show: A small town stakes its future on writing, directing, and starring in a musical.
