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.
- How the petrodollar regime came to be, and what losing it would mean for the U.S.
- Show me the money: NPR staff share their favorite movies about money and the economy
- How young people are navigating a tough and rapidly changing job market
- Seeing the femme fatale as a full person: the hero and the villain
- Understanding why some Iranian Americans support the war on their country of origin
- The rippling effect of the Iran war, seen from the border with Turkey
- Thousands of 'No Kings' protests take place around the world
- Yemen's Houthi rebels enter the fighting in the Middle East