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Jay Allison
is a veteran independent broadcast journalist. His work often airs on NPR's All
Things Considered, PRI's This American Life and other national programs. Over
the last twenty years, he has created hundreds of programs for national and
international broadcast, and has won virtually every major industry award,
including three Peabodys and the 1996 Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding
contributions to public radio. He is co-producer of Lost & Found Sound on
NPR and producer of the Life Stories series which gives tape recorders to
citizens, to tell their own stories.
Allison is a founder of the Association of Independents in Radio and is the
originator and host of Transom.org, which brings new voices and stories to
public radio. He is the Executive Director of Atlantic Public Media (APM,) a
non-profit organization he founded to create two new public radio stations in
the Cape Cod region. Allison's latest project is The Public Radio Exchange
(prx.org,) a new distribution tool for public radio producers and stations. (Keyboard
Audio)
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Paul Auster
was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947 to middle class parents. After
attending Columbia University he lived in France for four years. Since
returning to America in 1974, he has published poems, essays, novels and
translations. (Talking Story)
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Scott Carrier
is an independent radio producer and freelance writer whose work is broadcast
on This American Life and published in Esquire magazine. A
collection of his stories, Running After Antelope , was published last
spring by Counterpoint. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and three
children. (Taking Risks in Radio)
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Andrei Codrescu
has published poetry, memoirs, fiction, and essays. He is a regular commentator
on NPR, and has written and starred in the Peabody Award-winning movie, Road
Scholar. His novels, The Blood Countess (1995), and Messiah
(1999) were national bestsellers. Mr. Codrescu is MacCurdy Distinguished
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and edits Exquisite
Corpse: A Journal of Letters & Life. (Awards ceremony Keynote
Speaker)
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Dan Collison
is founder and executive director/producer of DC Productions, a Chicago-based
not-for-profit media production company specializing in radio and video
documentaries about people and places overlooked. Collison has worked in public
radio since 1980, and is a regular contributor to NPR's All Things Considered.
He teaches radio workshops, and his numerous radio awards include a
duPont-Columbia Silver Baton and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. (Ear
to Ear)
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Writer/producer
Katie Davis
recently received a grant from the CPB to produce a series of radio pieces
called Neighborhood Stories, the idea for which has grown out of her 19-year
background in public radio and more recent work (since l994) as a community
activist in Adam's Morgan, her inner city neighborhood in Washington D.C.
(Audio Gallery Curator)
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Since 1998,
Alan Hall
has worked as a freelance/independent radio producer, following eight years on
the staff of the BBC Radio Music Department. Recent independent productions
include New Soundings, a series exploring the lives of contemporary classical
musicians; and Three Places in New England, about the composer Charles Ives.
Hall’s radio programes have received a number of awards, including the Prix
Italia twice (1994 for Monument, 1997 for Knoxville) and a Prix Bohemia (1998)
for Beethoven's Fifth.(Points on
a Curve)
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Dave Isay
is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past thirteen years his
radio work has won almost every award in broadcasting including three Peabody
Awards and two Robert F. Kennedy Awards. Isay has also received the Prix Italia
(Europe's oldest and most distinguished broadcasting honor), a Guggenheim
Fellowship (1994) and most recently a MacArthur Fellowship (2000). He is the
author (or co-author) of three books based on Sound Portraits radio stories:
Holding On, Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and
Flophouse. (Ear to Ear)
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Tony Kahn
serves as alternate host for The World and writes, produces and hosts Tony
Kahn’s Journal. Kahn has written, produced, narrated and hosted more than 50
radio and television programs for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), NPR,
Nickelodeon, A&E, and Monitor Radio. Prior to his work in broadcasting,
Kahn was a Russian scholar and translator for poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and
published four books of translations of Russian poetry, biography and fiction.
(Audio Gallery Curator)
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The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva)
have been producing radio programs together since 1979 for programs including
Lost and Found Sound, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Pacifica and
Soundprint.
Along with producing radio stories with Nikki Silva, Davia Nelson is also a
screenwriter, producer, and casting director. Her most recent casting work
includes the Location Casting for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rainmaker and
Special Casting for Wes Anderson’s Rushmore.
Over the past twenty years, Nikki Silva has also worked as History Curator at
the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz an as a freelance curator and
exhibit consultant specializing in regional history. (Talking
Story)
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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 took to the air at NPR, perfecting his unique and
quirky style by, among other things, recording an opera called Rato Interesso
to explain interest rates. Now at ABC News, he appears regularly on Nightline.
His work on the PBS-TV series Frontline has won him Emmy, George Polk and
DuPont. (Talking Story)
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Bernice Johnson Reagon, composer,
songleader and historian, is Distinguished Professor of History at American
University and Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. She founded the
musical group Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. Dr. Reagon conceptualized the
NPR and Smithsonian Peabody Award winning radio series Wade in the Water:
African American Sacred Music Traditions. A 1989 recipient of the MacArthur
Fellowship, Reagon was also awarded the 1995 Charles Frankel Prize for
outstanding contribution to public understanding of the humanities, by the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Jacki Lyden
has been an NPR contributor and host for more than two decades, reporting on
vital issues at home and abroad and winning numerous awards for her work. She
has received wide recognition for her reporting accomplishments, and shared in
NPR's George Foster Peabody Award and Alfred I. duPont-Colulmbia University
Award for coverage of 9/11. Lyden has written for Granta, Atlantic Monthly, The
New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others.
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Elizabeth Meister
is the creator and sole producer of the This American Life website. Also a
freelance radio producer, she's been heard on This American Life, the Savvy
Traveler and NPR's Anthem. In addition, she is a contributing writer for the
Roadtrip USA travel guides. She's been working on Internet projects since 1989,
when she was the first one in her dorm to get an email address.
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Michael Montgomery
has worked in national radio, television, and newspapers. He joined American
RadioWorks as a correspondent in July, 1999. Prior to that, Montgomery was an
associate producer at CBS Reports and 60 Minutes, where he covered national and
international stories, including an extensive investigation into Mexican drug
trafficking. From 1989 to 1995, Montgomery reported regularly on the collapse
of communism in Eastern Europe and the break up of Yugoslavia. Montgomery was a
Fulbright scholar in Belgrade from 1987 to 1989, researching Serbian
nationalism.
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In 1992
Ellin O’Leary
founded Youth Radio with a group of high school students in the Bay Area. In
her 20 years as a journalist, Ms. O’Leary has worked for NPR, KQED and Inner
City Broadcasting. Ms. O’Leary leads Youth Radio’s strategic development and
award-winning productions, including radio, web, video, graphic design and
print.
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Radio Arte, a youth initiative of
the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, is an educational radio station that has
served the Pilsen/ Little Village neighborhood of Chicago for over 6 years. As
the only bilingual (Spanish/ English), youth-operated, urban, community station
in the country, Radio Arte is committed to training young people (ages 15-21)
from the Chicago metropolitan area in the art of broadcasting.
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Priya Ramu
is the Senior Producer of Outfront - CBC Radio's award-winning freelance
documentary program, and has been with the show since its creation. Previous to
Outfront she worked as a radio news reporter covering both local and national
stories. Earlier in her career Ramu dabbled in TV, both for CBC and in
independent production, but soon returned to her first true love, radio.
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Steve Rathe
has been producing (and occasionally hosting) radio for three decades. Rathe
spent seven years with NPR, and created the network's much honored Contemporary
Music/Events unit. In 1981, he launched the Murray Street Enterprise in New
York, offering production, marketing, distribution and consulting services.
Rathe serves on several foundation boards, including The Association of
Independents in Radio (AIR.) He is cofounder of the public radio Producers
Advocacy Group and a past president of Sound Foundation (NYC).
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Joe Richman
has been a reporter and producer for public radio for 12 years, and has worked
on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition-Saturday, Car Talk, and HEAT. Joe's
own pioneering series, Teenage Diaries, has introduced the voices of teenagers
across the country to a national audience on NPR's All Things Considered. Joe
is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of
Journalism, and he runs Radio Diaries Inc., a not-for-profit production company
dedicated to helping people document their own lives for public radio.
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Joan Schuman
has been making quasi-alternative radio since 1986 and audio art since 1992,
exploring such themes as the nomad, ambiguity, violence, language, silence and
sound. She helped launch Outright Radio, produces sound-texts for national
radio programs, and has worked in community broadcasting on both coasts. Her
radio and sound works have appeared on the air, online, in galleries and
performance spaces in the US, Europe and Australia. She lives in Tucson,
Arizona.
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From America's backyards, to the back streets of Sarajevo, Chicago, and Rio,
Scott Simon
brings a well-traveled perspective to his role as Host of NPR's Weekend
Edition. Simon opened NPR’s Chicago Bureau in 1980. He has also reported from
bureaus in New York, London, and Jerusalem before creating Weekend Edition in
1985. Simon also works in television, and is currently the host of the
quarterly PBS series, State of Mind. An accomplished writer, Simon has
contributed articles to The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, among
other publications. In 2001, Simon received the Barry M. Goldwater Award from
the Human Rights Campaign.
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Stephen Smith
reports on wide range of international and domestic issues, including
international human rights, race relations and American history, for American
RadioWorks. Documentary projects for All Things Considered and other programs
have taken Smith to Asia, the Balkans, South Africa, and other destinations. He
also reports on diverse social and cultural issues across the United States.
Smith is the winner of broadcast journalism's most prestigious honor, the
1999-2000 duPont-Columbia Gold Baton, as well as many other national journalism
awards.
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Based in Berkeley, CA,
Youth Radio
promotes young people's intellectual, creative, and professional growth through
training and access to media. Through hands-on practice, working relationships
with industry professionals, and production of award-winning programming, Youth
Radio students learn the basics of broadcasting. In the process, they're
exposed to a broad spectrum of media-related careers.
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