Noel King is currently a correspondent for Planet Money and was formerly a senior reporter for the Marketplace Wealth and Poverty desk.
With Banned Book Week upon us, we investigate whether the attention created by a ban on a book results in increased sales for the author.
Iran's foreign minister and Secretary of State John Kerry plan to meet at the U.N. General Assembly.
Nielsen, the counter of all things media, will start counting TV viewership on tablets and smartphones in fall 2014.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz urged customers not to bring guns into his coffee chain's stores.
A practitioner of the dismal science and a writer of dystopian sci-fi have competing takes on the survival of the middle class.
The Census releases U.S. median income data today. We visit two families to compare what it's like to live at the national median income and local median income.
Microsoft acquires Nokia in a $7.2 billion deal that aims to make Microsoft a player in the mobile-phone market.
The government will require insurers to accept prepaid debit cards as payment for insurance under Obamacare.
Egypt's deposed President, Mohamed Morsi, inherited a country in economic shambles. His largely ineffectual response only exacerbated the problem.
Four billion people in the world don't have access to the Internet — now Facebook, and other tech giants want to change that.