iru ekpunobi

 ee-roo ek-pu-no-bee

👋🏾! i’m a writer, reporter, producer and current fellow at Marketplace, where I help turn financial data into sound-rich radio stories about real people. 



i’ve reported and produced on AI interns, wartime techno, nightclub bathrooms, DJs in Maine, movie rental stores and lots of public policy. my writing on the Negro Leagues won an Edward R. Murrow award.

if you’re wondering where to start, i’m proud of my reporting on the intersection of buy now pay later loans, Telfar bags 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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