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Best Documentary: Gold Award
Yes, There is a Baby
by Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass
Jonathan Goldstein grew up in Montreal. He is a producer for This
American Life and his work has been featured on CBC Radio. Goldstein
is the author of the novel Lenny Bruce is Dead and writing has also appeared in
The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine .
Alex Blumberg is a former This American Life administrator
who, prior to rejoining the show in the summer of '99, worked as a freelance
radio reporter contributing to This American Life, The Savvy Traveler
and WBEZ in Chicago.
Ira Glass started his career in public radio in 1978 when he
was 19, as an intern at National Public Radio's Washington Headquarters. Over
the course of the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show,
tackling nearly every production job available. He currently hosts and produces
the Peabody Award-winning show This American Life. Glass was named the
2001 "America's Best Radio Host" by Time Magazine.
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Best Documentary: Bronze Award
If
by Sherre DeLys and John Jacobs
Sherre DeLys produces radio for the Listening Room ,
from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her work is also broadcast on
arts programs internationally, and last year Containers, by DeLys and ABC sound
engineer Russell Stapleton, received the Grand Prix - Art and Sound Design in
the Phonurgia Nova Awards. DeLys received a graduate diploma in sound at the
Australian Film, Television and Radio school, before coming to work at the ABC
in 1995.
John Jacobs has been working as a radio sound
engineer/producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 18 years. Now
specializing in features and documentaries, with a personal preference for
socially progressive issues, Jacobs enjoys the opportunity to work with voices
in a rhythmic/melodic way.
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Best Documentary: Bronze Award
My So-Called Lungs
by Joe Richman and Laura Rothenberg
Joe Richman is an award-winning reporter and producer for
public radio. He is the creator of the Teenage Diaries series and the
founder of Radio Diaries Inc., a New York City-based not-for-profit production
company dedicated to helping people document their own lives on public radio.
Richman is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate School
of Journalism.
For the last two years, 21-year-old Laura Rothenberg has been
recording an audio diary of her battle with cystic fibrosis, including her
double lung transplant last year. Rothenberg grew up in New York City and is
currently writing a book about her experiences with cystic fibrosis.
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Best Documentary: Honorable Mention
Grey Ghost
by Allan Coukell
Allan Coukell is a journalist and radio producer. From 1999 to
2002, he produced Radio New Zealand's award winning weekly science program Eureka!
In addition to Grey Ghost, he produced Hungry for Justice: A Refugee
Chronology, which won best radio feature in the Qantas Media Awards
this year. Coukell now lives in Boston, MA.
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Best Documentary: Director's Choice
Annapurna: Memories in Sound
by Aaron and Bronwyn Ximm
Aaron Ximm is a San Francisco-based sound artist. Since 1998
he has been devoting most of his energy to his Quiet American Project (quietamerican.org.)
which includes compositions constructed exclusively from field recordings he
makes while traveling.
Bronwyn Ximm is a dancer by avocation and an editor and writer
by vocation. She is currently working as an editor for ANG, a San
Francisco-area newspaper group.
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Best New Artist
Affairs of the Mind
Kyla Brettle
Kyla Brettle lives in an apartment in inner city Melbourne,
Australia, with a Jack Russell Terrier called Horse. Her work as a freelance
television and film producer has been broadcast on Australian National
Television and SBS television's current affairs program Dateline, and has been
funded by the Australian Film Commission. Affairs of the Mind is
Brettle's first audio documentary.
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Public Service Award
Corrections, Inc
by John Biewen of American RadioWorks
John Biewen has produced a large body of work on economic and
social issues, as well as investigative reports and historical documentaries.
Biewen is based at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in
Durham, NC. He has won numerous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy,
Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), and the Edward R. Murrow
Award. (RTNDA)
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