Sally Helm
Sally Helm reports and produces for Planet Money. She has covered wildfire investigation in California, Islamic Finance in Michigan, the mystery of declining productivity growth, andholograms. Helm is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and of Yale University. Before coming to work at NPR, she helped start an after-school creative writing program in Sitka, Alaska. She is originally from Los Angeles, California.
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After a wildfire, teams of investigators start combing the wreckage for clues. Finding the cause means, maybe, finding someone to pay. But where's the line between a natural disaster and a human one?
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Five reporters go to the New York Produce Show and Conference, each on a mission.
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A Chinese company pays millions of dollars for a failing hotel in a small, rural town. We follow the trail of money, and it explains the world economy.
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Today on the show: death. We have four stories about how people prepare for death and what they leave behind for the living.
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There's an entire universe of things spies are not allowed to tell us. Today on the show, a few of the teeny things they can say. They might come in handy.
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Your phone rings--it looks like your neighbor's calling. But instead, it's the creepiest scam of the year.
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How fast is the world really changing? The answer has implications for everything from how the next generation will live to whether robots really will take all our jobs.
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Many Americans don't have enough savings to get through an emergency. Wal-Mart is offering a new program where you can win money by saving money.
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When products move around the world, they pass through a highly sophisticated system of ships, docks, trucks and more. But there is one link that has remained stubbornly human: freight forwarding.
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After the housing market crash, a lot of foreclosure cases got started and then were abandoned. A court clerk in Queens discovered it's hard, lonely work to tie up a loose end of the financial crisis.