Ashley Milne-Tyte

I’m an audio and print journalist and podcast host. I spent years covering business and now specialize in stories about aging and longevity. We all want to grow old, but society bombards us with stereotypes about older people – stereotypes that make being old a lot harder than it should be. I’d like to be part of changing attitudes to aging through my writing. Specialties aside, my experience at public radio outlets such as Marketplace and NPR means I can write about pretty much anything (at short notice). I honed my audio storytelling skills as a reporter for Marketplace, the public radio business show. I hosted my own podcast about women and the workplace, The Broad Experience, for more than a decade, starting before the podcast boom began and ending in 2023. During that time I built a thriving online community for the show using social media. I have also produced and hosted podcasts for clients ranging from trade magazines to brands like Morgan Stanley and Virgin Atlantic. I have taught radio and podcasting at Columbia Journalism School and Stony Brook University. 

These days I report and write for NPR, The World, PBS Next Avenue, The Christian Science Monitor, and The East Hampton Star, among others. Over the years I’ve been published in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Metro, and The Independent.