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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Four years after the pandemic began, a small group of New Yorkers is still celebrating first responders. Each night at 7, they lean out their windows to make a big noise in thanks.
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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.