Adrian Ma

Adrian Ma is Bringing Home the World fellow in 2019.

As a journalist focused on stories with a business and economic bent, Adrian has reported on predatory housing contracts, school security products, and speed-dating economists.

This summer, he will join public radio station WBUR in Boston as business reporter. Previously, he reported for WCPN/ideastream in Cleveland, where he was a regular contributor to American Public Media's Marketplace.

In 2017, the Association of Independents in Radio named him a “New Voices Scholar,” an honor highlighting emerging talent in public media and some years ago, he worked in a ramen shop. 

Through this fellowship, he hopes to gain a better understanding of how the world’s two largest economies are intertwined.  

Project: This project looks at how China became one of the fastest growing markets for a popular Massachusetts export: cranberries.

His stories: How the Trade War Crushed a Growing Chinese Market for U.S. Cranberries; How the U.S. Marketed Cranberries to China; The Impact of the Trade War With China on the U.S. Cranberry Industry; How a Nationwide Cancer Scare Nearly Sank the Cranberry Industry