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)

Arctic drilling off Alaska is disappearing

May 10, 2016
Oil companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips, are largely walking away from many of their Arctic leases.
The tide comes in on a beach along the Chukchi Sea in Shishmaref, Alaska.
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Fires and those who have been fired cause oil uncertainty

May 9, 2016
Saudi Arabia has a new oil minister. Canada has the worst wildfires in years.
Khalid al-Falih speaking during a press conference last year.
MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images

Lead contamination poisons a neighborhood's home values

May 6, 2016
Residents of East Los Angeles are seeing prices drop and can't sell their homes.
Terry Cano (left) and brother Joe Gonzalez were born and raised in Boyle Heights. Both have serious medical problems they attribute to the lead in their soil.
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In Los Angeles, lack of trust makes lead cleanup tougher

May 5, 2016
In East Los Angeles, the state agency that let a battery recycling plan operate for years must clean up after it.
Jessica Prieto (right) signs up Hillary Velasquez for soil testing in East Los Angeles.
Jed Kim/Maketplace

To visualize climate change, think about water

May 4, 2016
Changes to the water cycle can have severe economic repercussions, a World Bank report says.
A boat dock is left in the dried bed of Huntington Lake, Californina, in 2014. A World Bank report says climate change could have a severe economic impact on some regions of the world.
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

49ers ahead of NFL on diversity efforts

Apr 27, 2016
The San Francisco team will increase interviews with women for business-side openings.
A San Francisco 49ers fan cheers for her team prior to the start of a game against the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium on September 27, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. 
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Saudi Arabia is pushing for the biggest ever IPO

Apr 26, 2016
The kingdom is selling a slice of its oil company to wean itself off the oil industry.
Aramco's Al-Khurais central oil processing facility.
MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images

Companies staking claims on electric car chargers

Apr 20, 2016
California's three biggest utilities are trying to pilot adding more stations.
Nissan LEAF at a charging station. 
Miles Willis / Stringer

Are sport retail bankruptcies Darwinism at work?

Apr 18, 2016
Too many sporting-goods stores are competing for customers.
Sports Chalet operated in a crowded space of sports retailers including Sports Authority, Dick's Sporting Goods and REI. 
Tim Boyle/Getty Images

As cigarette sales shrink, so do tobacco settlement payouts to states

Apr 15, 2016
Critics say not enough of the money goes to smoking prevention programs.
States are seeing about a 4.5 percent decrease in settlement payments from the tobacco industry each year.
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