Who Is Ilya Marritz? Everything About Co-host Of "Will Be Wild" Podcast And Senior Reporter At WNYC

Ilya Marritz is an American journalist and senior news correspondent at New York Public Radio (WNYC). He has been working on the network since 2008.

He previously served as a supervisor for NPR's All Things Considered and The Brian Lehrer Show before entering WNYC. In addition, he co-hosted the podcasts The Season and The Trump, Inc.

The reporter produced a podcast with Pineapple Street Studios covering the Trump legal repercussions for NPR. The journalist previously served as the co-host of the ProPublica and WNYC podcast "Trump, Inc."

Moreover, he formerly functioned as presenter of The Season, a podcast about the Columbia University Lions, a failing collegiate football club.

Besides, Marritz also writes for many editorials and publications such as Time Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Daily News, and The Financial Times, covering all sorts of news and reports, mostly related to the former American president.

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Ilya Marritz does not have his Wikipedia bio page. As a result, finding someone's exact age makes it difficult. However, according to Facts Buddy, Ilya Marritz's age will be 45 in 2022. He was born sometime in 1977.

Born and raised in Manhattan, New York, Marritz attended Stuyvesant High School before joining Wesleyan University (1995 - 1999) when he was a late teen.

According to his Linkedin, the American journalist began his career as an associate producer for WNYC Radio two years after he graduated from the university. He was just 20 when he started and worked there till 2005.

The rumors surrounding his sexuality, as if Ilya Marritz is gay, peaked in 2014. Around that time, he wrote many homosexual posts on Twitter and articles. 

"I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." Marritz tweeted in October 2014 quoting Tim Cook. However, he is not day. But again, Marritz never made a clear statement responding to the rumor of him being gay. 

Besides, he is a happily married person. Marritz has a beautiful and adorable wife, and the couple is blessed with two children, a daughter, and a son, from their blissful marriage. They live an untroubled life in New York.

"So after I realized he wasn’t gay, & then he realized that I realized he wasn’t gay, he kissed me." @NYT metro diary http://t.co/vMe7qDIe

— Ilya Marritz (@ilyamarritz) November 19, 2012

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According to Facts Buddy, Ilya Marritz net worth is estimated at around $1 million, earning roughly $98,000 a year.

The former host of Trump, Inc. has been working as a journalist and reporter for over two decades. He has worked in NPR, Radio Prague, and New York Public Radio - WNYC. So it is safe to say his earnings and net worth are justified.

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