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| Jad Abumrad is the host and producer of WNYC's
Radio Lab, a program that blends ideas, sound & storytelling. Prior to
joining WNYC, Abumrad worked as an independent producer for national programs
including All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and On the
Media. He was also a member of the team that launched The Next Big Thing
and has been a teacher-mentor for WNYC's Radio Rookies. (First and final
rounds)
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| Noah Adams brings more than three decades of
radio experience to his role as a senior correspondent for NPR News. In his
current position, Adams works with NPR's National Desk to cover stories on the
working poor across America. Before becoming a senior correspondent in April
2003, Adams hosted NPR’s All Things Considered. Adams received the Prix
Italia and duPont-Columbia awards for his documentary Father Cares: The Last of
Jonestown. He has also written numerous books, including Piano Lessons:
Music, Love and True Adventures. (First and final rounds)
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| Martha Bayne is a writer and associate editor
at The Chicago Reader, where she has been on staff since 1998. Currently
she handles the Reader's Calendar section and books coverage, including
the paper's biannual books issue. Her features, essays, and book reviews have
appeared in the Reader, The Baffler and The Washington Post.
(First round)
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| Jay Beck is an assistant professor of Cinema
Studies at DePaul University. He is a recent graduate of The University of
Iowa's Department of Comparative Literature and his dissertation, A Quiet
Revolution: Changes in American Film Sound Practices, 1967-1979, received
the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Award for 2004. He is
currently co-editing a collection on film sound entitled Lowering the Boom: New
Essays on the History, Theory and Practice of Film Sound. (First Round)
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| A Chicago based audio artist, M.W. Burns
using sound to conceptually activate space. Burns has had solo exhibitions at
the TBA Exhibition Space (Chicago) and the Lab (San Francisco) among other
galleries. His sound installations have been included in numerous group
exhibitions, including the 2000 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum
of American Art (New York.) Recent projects include Sound Canopy, a public
sound system supporting audio work created to participate in the urban
environment. (First round)
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| Hal Cannon is the founding Director
of the Western Folklife Center and the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.
He has published a dozen books and recordings on the folk arts of the West
including his bestselling anthology, Cowboy Poetry, A Gathering.
Cannon also produces public television and radio features on the culture and
folklife of the American West. His television documentary, Why the Cowboy Sings
garnered a Rocky Mountain Emmy. (First and final rounds)
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| Cheryl Corley is a reporter at NPR's
Chicago Bureau and travels throughout the Midwest covering issues and events
from Ohio to South Dakota. Prior to joining NPR in 1995, Corley was the news
director at Chicago Public Radio, where she supervised an award-winning team of
reporters. Corley has received the Community Media Workshop's Studs Terkel
Award and awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. (First
round)
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| Ken Davis spent the first part of
his career working for Chicago Public Radio, where he developed the station's
first news team. Later, as Program Director, he initiated the station's
award-winning public affairs series Chicago Matters. Most recently
Davis was Director of Municipal Television for Chicago. He’s also a board
member of The Radio Research Consortium. (First round)
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| Amy Dickinson is the Chicago
Tribune's general advice columnist, following in the tradition of the
legendary Ann Landers. Prior to the Tribune, Dickinson was a frequent
contributor to Time Magazine, where she penned a column about family
life, often drawing from her experiences as a single parent and member of a
large, extended family. Dickinson has provided commentaries for NPR’s All
Things Considered and for CBS Sunday Morning. (First round)
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| Daniel Ferri is a regular
commentator for All Things Considered on NPR and for the daily
magazine show Eight Forty-Eight on Chicago Public Radio. In 2000 his
essays were named Best Radio Commentary/Editorial by the Illinois Associated
Press and also by the Chicago Society of Professional Journalists. Daniel
teaches 6th grade in suburban Chicago and is also a nationally recognized
performance poet who was featured in the documentary film Slamnation.
(First round)
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| Melissa Giraud started as an intern
at NPR and went on to be a producer on shows including Weekend Edition
Saturday, Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
She co-created and produced NPR's experimental radio and Web series, Along for
the Ride, which was broadcast in 2001 and 2002 on All Things Considered.
Melissa is currently working on the CPB-funded radio project OchoTEEN. (First round)
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| Sandy Hausman is an independent
radio producer covering stories all over the world including Chicago, Brazil,
Ecuador and the U.K. to report for such national programs as Marketplace,
The World and Living on Earth. Before joining the ranks of public
broadcasters, Hausman served as news director for NBC's FM radio station in
Chicago (WKQX.) Today, she serves as an editor for The World Vision Report,
a magazine show focused on issues of poverty and justice. (First round)
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| Lisbeth Jessen has been working at
the Danish Broadcasting Corporation as both a radio and television producer
since 1984. She produces many styles of radio programs from classic features to
documentaries based on investigative journalism. Jessen has won numerous awards
including a 1998 Prix Italia for the radio feature Why Didn't She Ring Back?
and a 2003 Prix Italia and Prix Europa for After the Celebration.
(First and final rounds)
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| Steve Jones is Professor in
Communications Department at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Formerly a
rock critic, musician and recording engineer, he is author of numerous books,
including Virtual Culture, Society Online, and Pop Music
& the Press. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet
& American Life Project and Research Associate in the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory. (First round)
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| Christopher Kamyszew is the founder
and President of the Society for Arts, the Chicago-based non-profit
organization promoting cultural exchange between Europe and the States. He is
also the founder of the Polish Film Festival in America, and founder and
President/Director of the Chicago International Documentary Festival, one of
the largest festivals of documentary films in the United States (First round)
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| Tony Kahn is alternate host and
special correspondent for PRI's The World and produces and hosts Tony
Kahn's Journal. Kahn has produced and hosted more than 50 radio and
television programs and series for PBS, NPR, Nickelodeon and A&E. He was
most recently acclaimed for his public radio drama series Blacklisted,
which chronicled the Hollywood blacklisting of his screenwriter father Gordon
Kahn. Kahn is currently developing a national series of personal stories called
Morning Stories. (First and final rounds)
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| Amy Krouse Rosenthal
is the creator and host of the literary and music variety show Writers' Block
Party on Chicago Public Radio. Her work has appeared in The New York
Times, McSweeneys, Parenting and Utne Reader.
Her forthcoming book Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life will be
published in February '05 (Crown). She lives in Chicago, and on the web at mommymommy.com
(First round)
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| Judith McCray is an Emmy
Award-winning writer, director and producer. She has produced for the NPR world
affairs series Common Ground, including the award-winning documentary Lost
in their Native Lands, which addressed human rights issues affecting
indigenous communities. A former program developer for public television, she
has also taught documentary production and writing. McCray is president and
founder of Juneteenth Productions, which produces programming for broadcast and
educational media. (Radio Impact Award)
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| Since 1979, Davia Nelson and Nikki
Silva have been producing radio programs together as The Kitchen
Sisters. They are the creators of two Peabody Award winning series, Lost
& Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project which both
aired on NPR's All Things Considered. Currently The Kitchen Sisters
are working on a new collaboration, Hidden Kitchens, airing in Fall
2004 on NPR's Morning Edition. Nelson is also a casting director, screenwriter
and film director. (First and final rounds)
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| Nina Newhouser is Vice President of
Audience Logic, a marketing agency specializing in the arts. Newhouser began
her career working in radio and was Assistant Program Director of news/talk
station WGSO-AM in New Orleans. Two years later, Newhouser began working at
WGN-AM in Chicago where she produced its entertainment program The Roy Leonard
Show. (First round)
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| David Schaper is a news reporter for
NPR. He covers breaking news in Chicago and around the Midwest, as well as a
broad range of social, political, and business issues in the region. Prior to
joining NPR in December 2002, Schaper spent nine years working as an
award-winning reporter and editor for Chicago Public Radio where he covered a
range of education issues plaguing Chicago's public schools. (Radio Impact
Award)
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| David E. Simpson is a director,
editor and educator who has crafted award-winning films and television for more
than two decades. David recently directed Refrigerator Mothers, which
won top honors at the Florida and Sedona Film Festivals and aired nationally on
PBS. David works independently but has enjoyed a long association with
Kartemquin Films, one of the oldest documentary companies in the country.
(First round)
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| Susan Stone is Director of Pacifica
Radio's arts and humanities programs in Berkeley, California, a producer of
radio tales and a mediator for San Francisco city government and
court-appointed programs. Her award-winning features, soundscapes for radio
theater and documentary film have been commissioned and featured by the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR and the Pacifica Radio network. In
2002 Susan received the Third Coast Festival Directors’ Choice Award. (First
and final rounds)
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| Sudhir Venkatesh is Associate
Professor of Sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University in
New York City, where he is also Director of the Center for Urban Research and
Policy. Venkatesh has done extensive ethnographic work examining issues of
race, poverty, youth and underground economies in Chicago and Harlem, and is
the author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto.
His radio documentary series Transformation: The History and Future of Public
Housing in Chicago, won the Associated Press Illinois Best Documentary
Award (2002.) (Radio Impact Award)
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