Bobby Allyn
Bobby Allyn is a business reporter at NPR based in San Francisco. He covers technology and how Silicon Valley's largest companies are transforming how we live and reshaping society.
He came to San Francisco from Washington, where he focused on national breaking news and politics. Before that, he covered criminal justice at member station WHYY.
In that role, he focused on major corruption trials, law enforcement, and local criminal justice policy. He helped lead NPR's reporting of Bill Cosby's two criminal trials. He was a guest on Fresh Air after breaking a major story about the nation's first supervised injection site plan in Philadelphia. In between daily stories, he has worked on several investigative projects, including a story that exposed how the federal government was quietly hiring debt collection law firms to target the homes of student borrowers who had defaulted on their loans. Allyn also strayed from his beat to cover Philly parking disputes that divided in the city, the last meal at one of the city's last all-night diners, and a remembrance of the man who wrote the Mister Softee jingle on a xylophone in the basement of his Northeast Philly home.
At other points in life, Allyn has been a staff reporter at Nashville Public Radio and daily newspapers including The Oregonian in Portland and The Tennessean in Nashville. His work has also appeared in BuzzFeed News, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
A native of Wilkes-Barre, a former mining town in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Allyn is the son of a machinist and a church organist. He's a dedicated bike commuter and long-distance runner. He is a graduate of American University in Washington.
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The Trump administration said Sunday that first responders, medical providers and the elderly will be given priority as officials strive to dramatically expand the availability of testing.
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The moves announced Wednesday came as the White House and Congress worked on economic proposals to contain the fallout from the coronavirus.
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Top administration officials will meet with House and Senate Republicans Tuesday to discuss economic relief for workers and small businesses. Democrats, however, signaled they are not on board.
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As the number of fatalities in mainland China rises above 800, Beijing has granted approval to a team of international health experts to travel to China to investigate the virus.
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The Senate found President Trump not guilty on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah voted to convict Trump on only the first article of impeachment.
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The state party has released some of the results. It's not clear when the full totals will be made public.
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Both sides made their closing arguments in the president's impeachment trial in the Senate. On Wednesday, the Senate is widely expected to acquit the president.
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Democrats had hoped to introduce witnesses but failed to get enough Republican support. The trial now moves to a final phase, which includes a vote on whether to acquit or convict the president.
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Early on, Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read a question from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Paul's question may have identified the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry.
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Trump's legal team argued that accepting election information from foreign sources does not violate federal laws. Democrats called the assertion shocking.