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Benjamin Adair is a reporter and producer for The Savvy
Traveler. His work has been featured by the Third Coast Festival and
honored by the New York Festivals. He contributes to a wide range of websites
and magazines, and also helped write the book Gig: Americans Talk about Their
Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium. (First and final round)
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Leonard Aronson has produced documentaries for the public
information series Chicago Matters since its inception in 1989 and
has, for the past ten years, served as the series' executive producer at
WTTW11, Chicago's public television station. Aronson has won eleven Emmy
awards, two Peter Lisagor Awards, and shared a Peabody Award for his work on All
the King's Horses, a study of the grieving process of families with
impaired children. (First round)
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| Chris
Brookes is an independent producer whose documentary features have
been heard on public radio in the U.S., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand,
England, and Canada, and have won over thirty awards. Brookes has also written
and directed for television, is a published author and playwright, and has
taught documentary feature-making at festivals and workshops across North
America and Europe. He lives under a big rock in St. John's, Newfoundland.
(First and final round)
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| Edwin
Brys has produced news, current affairs magazines and radio
documentaries at VRT, Flemish Public Radio in Belgium, since 1972. He teaches
radio documentary at the Institute for Radio, Television, Film and Drama in
Brussels and currently organizes the annual meeting for professional radio
feature makers – the International Features Conference. Brys co-authored The
Radio Documentary, and has won awards from the Prix Italia and the
Prix Europa. (First and final round)
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| M.W.
Burns is a Chicago-based audio artist probing the phenomenon of
speech and using sound to conceptually activate space. Burns has had solo
exhibitions at several galleries including the TBA Exhibition Space (Chicago)
and the Lab (San Francisco.) His sound installations have been included in
numerous group exhibitions, including The 2000 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney
Museum of American Art (New York) and Time Arts at the Museum of Contemporary
Art (Chicago.) (First round)
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| Neenah
Ellis began working in radio as a teenager at her parents' radio
station in Valparaiso, Indiana. She has since been a producer for NPR's All
Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Minnesota Public
Radio's Good Evening. She’s also worked as a music producer,
documentary film producer and magazine writer. Ellis’ first book, based on One
Hundred Years of Stories, will be published in October, 2002. She's
won a Columbia-duPont award and three Peabodys. (First and final round)
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| Andrew
Fenchel is founder and director of LAMPO, a non-profit
organization in Chicago that presents experimental music, sound art and
intermedia projects. He currently serves on the music review panel for the
Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program. (First round)
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| Hillary
Frank is a freelance writer and independent radio producer. Her
work has aired on This American Life, Morning Edition, Studio
360, and WBEZ's documentary series Chicago Matters. Frank is
also the author and illustrator of the forthcoming young adult novel Better
than Running at Night. (First round)
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| Thomas
Frank is editor of The Baffler magazine, a journal of
dissent and cultural critique, and author of One Market Under God.
(First round)
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| Courtney
Hermann is the co-Technical Coordinator of the Rabinger Center for
Documentary at Columbia College Chicago. She teaches a course about using sound
design in documentary filmmaking and audio work. Courtney has made several
short films; her work has screened at festivals including: The Athens
International Film Festival and Women in the Director's Chair (Chicago.) (First round)
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A 1974 Columbia Law School graduate, Robert Krulwich quit the
profession after only two months to become Washington bureau chief for Pacifica
Radio. From there, he went on to National Public Radio, perfecting his unique
style by, among other things, recording an opera called Rato Interesso
to explain interest rates. After hosting the acclaimed PBS-TV arts series, The
Edge, he joined CBS This Morning in 1984. Now at ABC News, he
appears regularly on Nightline. His work at PBS-TV has won him Emmy,
George Polk and DuPont awards. (First and final round)
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| Edward
Lifson is Chicago Public Radio's arts, architecture and culture
editor. Lifson joined the station in July of 2001 after a prestigious career
working as as a domestic and foreign reporter for NPR. Lifson has also reported
for the BBC and CNN. Honored by several news organizations over the course of
his career, Lifson earned the Alfred I. DuPont - Columbia University Award for
his coverage of the U.S. Congressional races in 1994. (First round)
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A journalist for more than twenty-eight years, Elisabeth Perez Luna
is currently the Executive Producer for National Programming at WHYY
(Philadelphia) and producer of the weekly national show Been There, Done That.
Perez-Luna was the executive producer of NPR’s weekly program Crossroads
from 1986-1995. She contributes regularly to The Savvy Traveler and
NPR’s All Things Considered and Jazz Profiles; and has won
the Ohio State, Major Armstrong and CPB Awards. (First and final round)
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| Gwen
Macsai is the creator of What About Joan, starring Joan
Cusack, and author of Lipshtick, a book of humorous first-person
essays published in 2000. Macsai is also an award-winning writer and radio
producer for NPR. Her essays were heard on All Things Considered, Morning
Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon
throughout the 1990's. (First round)
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| Tori
Marlan has been a feature writer for The Chicago Reader since
1995. She has won two Peter Lisagor Awards for exemplary journalism, an
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for social reporting, and a
Herman Kogan Award for writing on legal affairs. (First round)
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| John
McDonough has been writing and producing documentary features for All
Things Considered with Robert Trout and Walter Cronkite since 1996.
McDonough also has been a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal
and has been nominated three times for Grammy Awards for album note essays.
(First round)
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| Jim
Metzner is a sound recordist who began his career with a piece for
NPR's Voices in the Wind -- the predecessor to All Things Considered.
Metzner's award-winning series include The Sounds of Science, and Pulse
of the Planet, now it in its fourteenth year. Metzner has recorded all
over the world and produced features for Marketplace and All Things
Considered. (First round and Public Service Award)
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| Yolanda
Rodríguez Pacheco is the General Manager of Radio Arte, WRTE 90.5
FM in Chicago, the nation's only bilingual (English/Spanish), youth-operated,
urban, community radio station. With experience in arts education, broadcasting
and curriculum development, Ms. Rodriguez has created a training program that
uses a non-traditional participatory approach to teaching radio. (First round)
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| Julie
Snyder is senior producer for This American Life. Before
joining the show in 1997, she was a reporter for WGN Radio in Chicago, and also
worked as the news director at KZSC, Santa Cruz's public radio station. (First round)
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| Nancy
Stone’s career in photojournalism began in Santa Fe, New Mexico as
the staff photographer for The Santa Fe Reporter, a small
weekly muckraking paper where she not only shot the photos but delivered the
papers to the paper boys. Since 1990 Stone has worked for The Chicago Tribune
as a staff photographer and has won numerous local and national awards. (First round)
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| Laura
S. Washington, Editor and Publisher Emerita of The Chicago
Reporter, has spent more than two decades working in print and
broadcast journalism and communications. She currently writes a column for The
Chicago Sun-Times and brings her expertise on urban issues to public
affairs programs on public television and radio. Washington's honors include:
two Chicago Emmys, the Studs Terkel Award for Community Journalism and the Ohio
State Award for broadcast journalism. (Public Service Award)
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