Willa Rubin
Associate Producer, Planet Money
Willa Rubin has produced dozens of stories about economics for NPR’s Planet Money. Her reporting has taken her into the crosshairs of an academic and policy debate about inflation in an episode about the Phillips Curve — and she’s gone into the field in rural Maine to track down where an estate trust meant for a town’s stray cats actually went. She’s given odes to economic data revisions and covered unconventional side effects of global events, such as a spark in candle sales ahead of Germany’s first winter without Russian gas, and the impact of Canada’s tariffs on a small business owner in Ottawa who imported American playing cards. She has also guest-edited and produced episodes of NPR’s science podcast, Short Wave.
Before coming to Planet Money, Rubin helped launch and co-produced Gimlet Media/Spotify and the Wall Street Journal’s award-winning daily narrative podcast The Journal. She got her start in podcasting, and in the Planet Money universe, working at The Indicator from Planet Money.
She has an M.A. in Journalism from the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY and a Bachelor’s of Arts from Oberlin College.
