iru ekpunobi

 ee-roo ek-pu-no-bee

greetings! i’m a writer, producer and reporter, and currently a fellow at Marketplace, where I help make hard financial data into people-first radio stories every day. 



i’ve pitched, produced, and written about AI interns, wartime techno, nightclub bathrooms, DJs in Maine, movie rental stores and more. my writing on the Negro Leagues won an Edward R. Murrow award.

i’m especially proud of my reporting on the intersection of buy now pay later loans and climate anxiety. 

i was a teaching assistant at the Salt Institute For Documentary Studies and taught radio workshops at Wave Farm and the Library of Congress. i hosted a college radio show from 11pm-2am on wednesdays and wrote my senior thesis on radio as a third place. 

i’d like to keep making more about more: ︎.



⤵️ Here are some samples of my work:


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