Jed Kim

Reporter

SHORT BIO

Jed Kim is the host of Marketplace’s kids podcast Million Bazillion, where he works with the team to make money make more sense. Marketplace is on a mission to raise the economic intelligence of the country— and where better to take on that mission than answering the awkward, uncomfortable, and sometimes surprising questions that kids have about money!

In addition to his work on Million Bazillion, Jed also hosts a podcast about water infrastructure called "In Deep,” and has contributed to three seasons of popular kids podcast “Smash Boom Best.” Also, recently he hosted a radio special titled “Just Eat It” about the environmental challenges of food production and waste. Prior to hosting, Jed was a Marketplace reporter covering sustainability. He has deep roots in public media—before Marketplace he was an environmental reporter for KPCC and before that he was a producer for "The Takeaway" at WNYC.

Jed graduated from Columbia Journalism School and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Latest Stories (278)

Equities exodus doesn't mean a failing economy

Jun 15, 2016
The first quarter of 2016 saw about a $60 billion retreat from equities.
Investors monitor stock price movements at a securities company in Beijing on June 15, 2016. China on June 15 brushed off stock index firm MSCI's decision to exclude the country's A shares from its influential global equities index, saying that the gauge cannot be complete without the Chinese stocks.
GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images

Dodd-Frank: what it set out to do, and where we are now

Jun 7, 2016
Republicans want to move away from the law
President Obama signing the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010.
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Safer oil train transport is coming ... eventually

Jun 6, 2016
The train crash and subsequent oil spill in Oregon has renewed calls for safety.
People protest oil trains, which have a record of explosion and fire disasters, near an over-sized puppet of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the March to Break Free from Fossil Fuels on May 14, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.
DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images

The empire orders re-shoots

Jun 1, 2016
How significant is it if, as reported, Disney wants re-shoots on the next Star Wars movie?
Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios Alan Horn.
Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney

OPEC is sitting prettier, but will oil prices stay up?

Jun 1, 2016
The goal of hobbling U.S. shale oil production may have worked, but may not explain higher prices.
Oil prices began falling more than a year ago.
David McNew/Getty Images

The next great global glut: plastic

May 31, 2016
Oil and gas are just some of the things gained from drilling. More natural gas also means more plastic
A Playmobil toy figure is covered with plastic granules at the playmobil toy factory in Dietenhofen on November 12, 2013 in Dietenhofen, Germany. 
Timm Schamberger/Getty Images

Facebook's sea cable doesn't mean a push into telecoms

May 27, 2016
The new Marea submarine cable will run about 4,000 miles from Virginia to Spain.
Employees of ERDF (Electricity Network Distribution France) and Louis Dreyfus company install an electric submarine cable and optical fiber between Quiberon and Belle-Ile-en-mer, western France, on March 11, 2015. These days, tech companies are joining the push to lay undersea fiber optic cable.
JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images

Could 'Finding Dory' hurt the world's reefs?

May 26, 2016
Many fear there'll be high demand for blue tangs, which are caught in tropical waters.
Between 100,000 and 150,000 Pacific Blue tangs are brought into the states each year.
Pixar

Investors want Exxon to account for climate change

May 24, 2016
ExxonMobil faces a shareholder resolution at its annual meeting
Oil covers a local resident's boot at Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California, May 19, 2015. 
ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

Country leaders hoping for cold reception at US-Nordic summit

May 13, 2016
With little time left in his presidency, Obama seems on a tear on climate deals.
President Obama listens as Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg delivers remarks during an an arrival ceremony for Nordic leaders in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Friday.
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