Ilya Marritz was a senior reporter at WNYC and the co-host of Trump, Inc.
Ilya was born and raised in Manhattan. His work has been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, On the Media, Planet Money, and The World. He contributed print pieces to The Daily News, The New Yorker online, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Financial Times. He was the co-host of the duPont silver baton-winning podcast Trump, Inc., produced by WNYC and ProPublica.
He hosted The Season, a podcast about a struggling college football team, the Columbia University Lions.
Ilya was also a producer at The Brian Lehrer Show and at NPR's All Things Considered, and a reporter at Radio Prague.
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Ilya Marritz appears in the following:
The Future of Academia
Monday, November 17, 2025
The mini-series The Harvard Plan, from The Boston Globe and On the Media, looks at how the Trump administration has interfered with Harvard, and how it will affect academia.
The Harvard Plan: Part Two
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Claudine Gay is accused of academic plagiarism.
The Campus as Culture War Battlefield
Friday, December 06, 2024
Ilya Marritz, reporter at The Boston Globe, and Hilary Burns, higher education reporter at The Boston Globe, talk about the series "The Harvard Plan", from On the Media and The Boston...
What We Learned About the Supreme Court in 2023
Friday, December 29, 2023
This year's reporting revealed rot at the Supreme Court.
The Man Who Shaped SCOTUS
Thursday, October 26, 2023
A deep dive on the man who has played a critical role in the conservative takeover of America's courts.
Part 1: “Tell them Leonard told you to call”
Friday, October 13, 2023
Really big money flows into state Supreme Court races.
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 3
Friday, October 13, 2023
Leo's vision for American society .... collides with American society.
Part 2: The Federalist Society for Everything
Friday, October 13, 2023
What will Leonard Leo do with $1.6 billion?
Part 3: "Google Leonard Leo"
Friday, October 13, 2023
In a town where people know who Leonard Leo is, he faces pushback.
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 3
Friday, October 13, 2023
Reporters Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz, and Andy Kroll bring you Episode 3: The Federalist Society for Everything
Part 2: The Fishing Trip
Friday, October 06, 2023
How a luxury trip to Alaska turned into a Supreme Court ethics scandal.
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 2
Friday, October 06, 2023
Reporters Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz, and Andy Kroll bring you Episode 2: The Network.
Part 1: A Bobblehead Doll of Leonard Leo
Friday, October 06, 2023
One conservative lawyer rises through the ranks.
Part 3: Talent, Meet Money
Friday, October 06, 2023
Leo gains power, and a Federalist Society donor becomes disillusioned.
Part 2: Most Likely to Succeed
Friday, September 29, 2023
A look at the backstory of the man who funds "basically everything."
Introducing We Don't Talk About Leonard
Friday, September 29, 2023
Reporters Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz, and Andy Kroll bring you Episode 1: Most likely to succeed.
Trump instructed to obey court rules ahead of Manhattan criminal trial
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
At a hearing Tuesday in New York, which former President Donald Trump attended via video conference, Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump to obey a protective order or face a possible contempt ruling.
A jury finds Trump liable for battery and defamation in E. Jean Carroll trial
Tuesday, May 09, 2023
Jurors believed that Carroll's allegation of sexual abuse in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s was more likely true than not. They awarded her $5 million in total damages.
Closing arguments are set to begin in E. Jean Carroll's civil case against Trump
Monday, May 08, 2023
Former President Donald Trump will not testify at the civil trial where longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996.
Ahead of its second week, catch up on E. Jean Carroll's trial against former president Trump
Saturday, April 29, 2023
The second week of E. Jean Carroll's trial against former President Donald Trump starts Monday. The former columnist says he raped her in the 1990s, then called her a liar when she went public.
