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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A judge granted a restraining order against a woman who allegedly showed up twice to Cook's home in Palo Alto. The filing states she also threatened Cook with photos of a handgun. -
A document obtained by NPR through a public records request shows that Holmes reported to local authorities that she was allegedly assaulted in a frat house while she was attending the school.
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Clive Wilkinson says it's really not a good thing for employees to work at a place that has catered meals, private parks, massage tables and a laundromat ... because why would you ever leave?
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Architect Clive Wilkinson designed Google's Silicon Valley headquarters 20 years ago, with slides and ping-pong tables — to blur the line between work and life. Now, he says he created a monster.
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The onetime Silicon Valley star will remain free on a bond until her sentencing hearing. She faces the maximum possible penalty of decades behind bars.
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It is latest attempt to hold a Big Tech company responsible for harm caused in the real world that allegedly was fueled by a social media platform.
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Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz reflects on Elizabeth Holmes' jury verdict. Now running his own biotech firm, he says he see how the pressure to exaggerate "could create an Elizabeth Holmes."
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Ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of fraud. Tyler Schultz, a whistleblower who helped sound the alarm over the company's technology, says it cost him his relationship with his grandfather.
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Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of blood testing startup Theranos, has been convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy. She faces a potential prison sentence of 20 years.
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Holmes, who was once seen as one of the most promising leaders in Silicon Valley, could spend up to 20 years in prison for defrauding investors of the blood-testing company.
