Mallory Noe-Payne

Reporter - Richmond

Mallory Noe-Payne is a national award-winning reporter and producer based in Richmond, Virginia. She's done work for NPR, Marketplace and Public Radio International.

Although she's a native Virginian, she's also worked for public radio in Boston. There, she helped produce stories about higher education, including a nationally-airing series on the German university system. In addition to working for WGBH, she's worked at WAMU in Washington D.C. She graduated from Virginia Tech with degrees in Journalism and Political Science.

For more frequent updates from Richmond, or occasional commentary on rock climbing and vegetable gardening, you can follow Mallory on Twitter @MalloryNoePayne.

To Tackle 'Critical Need' Lawmakers Fund More Clerks

By Mallory Noe-Payne • 16 hours ago

Here’s an update on a series of stories RADIOIQ aired back in December about a shortage of clerks in Virginia’s district courts. The judicial branch was asking lawmakers for more money, warning that staffing levels were at a crisis point.

Step into This Shipping Container and Connect to a World Away

By Mallory Noe-Payne • Feb 26, 2020

Shared Studios, a nonprofit in New York, sets up face to face conversations with people around the world -- but no one has to travel a mile.

They do it through something called Portals. They’re small spaces connected by life size video. There’s a single portal in Virginia, and for two weeks it is outside a high school in Henrico County.