Karen Duffin
Karen Duffin (she/her) is a co-host and reporter for Planet Money, NPR's award-winning podcast that finds creative, entertaining ways to make sense of the big, complicated forces that move our economy. She joined the team in March 2018.
Before that, she was a producer at This American Life. She also worked for several years as an independent producer, reporting stories for shows like Radiolab, More Perfect, Reply All, The Moth, Pop-Up Magazine, On the Media, and others. Karen has also been a Moth story coach and mainstage storyteller, and has taught radio at the Columbia, NYU, and CUNY Graduate Schools of Journalism.
Her stories blend in-depth reporting with narrative storytelling about everything from the death penalty to the world's largest treehouse, America's first major interrogation program, the Patriot Act, and San Francisco's "Spider-Man" burglar.
Before becoming a journalist, Karen spent several years as a speechwriter, working in more than 20 countries.
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When Florida outlawed partisan gerrymandering, politicians tried to sneak it back in ... in disguise.
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Meet the man who figured out how to reshape national politics by making tiny investments in the smallest of places.
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We meet the man who invented duty free shopping and find out if these tax free stores are really saving us any money.
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Why are used car commercials so annoying? Meet the original sinner.
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Today on the show, we talk to one of the most famous NDA breakers of all time, and ask: If you've made an agreement like that, is there a legal way out?
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Phosphate is a crucial element, for farming, and for life. And there aren't too many places to get it. What if it runs out?