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Benjamin Adair
is a reporter and producer for
The Savvy Traveler. Over the last three years there, he's covered
stories about the Central Asian sex trade and a man-made mountain of adobe and
latex paint out in the middle of the California desert, among others. His work
has been featured by the Third Coast Festival and honored by the New York
Festival. He contributes to a range of web sites and magazines, and also helped
write the book Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs at the Turn of the
Millennium . (Audio
Doctor)
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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, a new distribution tool for public
radio producers and stations. All of this action is happening in Woods Hole,
MA, where Allison and his family live. (Trespassing)
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A native of Kentucky, veteran documentary filmmaker
Elizabeth Barret
has pursued an abiding interest in the history, culture and people of
Appalachia. She works as a community-based artist with
Appalshop, the award-winning media arts center in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Her films, including Quilting Women (1976), and Long Journey Home
(1987), have screened at film festivals worldwide and been televised nationally
in the U.S. and Europe. Barret is a recipient a NEA Southeast Regional Media
Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Film Fellowship. Stranger With a Camera
premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. (Trespassing)
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Alan Berliner
combines experimental cinema, artistic purpose and popular appeal into
compelling film essays. His award-winning films, The Sweetest Sound, Nobody's
Business, Intimate Stranger and The Family Album have
been broadcast around the world and honored at top international film
festivals. He has won three Emmy Awards, received numerous fellowships, and
been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and other
arts organizations. He is currently a faculty member at the New School for
Social Research in New York City. (Once
Upon a Time...The End)
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Hal Cannon
is the Founding Director of the Western
Folklife Center and its famous child, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Cannon has received numerous awards, including the 1998 Will Rogers Lifetime
Achievement Award and the Utah Governors Award in both the Arts and Humanities.
Together with Taki Telonidis, Cannon has created more than 40 radio features
and published dozens of books about life in the American West. Their work airs
regularly on NPR’s
Weekend Edition Sunday and on PRI’s
Marketplace and Savvy
Traveler. (Breakout
Session: Interview)
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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 Doctor)
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Mandalit Del Barco
can be heard filing news and feature stories from NPR's Los Angeles bureau and
from South America. She has covered issues such as Latino politics and race
relations, and produced documentaries about Latino Hip Hop, Frida Kahlo and
other Latino-oriented topics Del Barco was a print reporter prior to joining
NPR. She continues to write articles for Latina Magazine and to
produce stories for the weekly radio show
Latino USA, which is distributed by NPR. (Audio
Doctor)
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Sherre DeLys
is a producer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s
Listening Room. She also creates sound installations and soundscapes
for public spaces such as galleries, hospitals and botanical glasshouses. DeLys
is currently Australia Council New Media Fellow (a two-year fellowship.) Born
in 1958 and raised in the southern United States, DeLys moved to Australia
after completing a degree in Political Economy from the University of
California, Berkley. (Breakout
Session: Music / Silver Award winner)
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Ira Glass
started working in public radio in 1978 when he was 19, as an intern at NPR's
Washington Headquarters. Over the course of the next 17 years, he worked on
nearly every NPR news show, and did nearly every production job they had,
including tape cutting, newscast writing, editing, producing, reporting and
substitute hosting. After moving to Chicago in 1989, he produced several
documentary series about public schools and about race relations for NPR. 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. (These
are a Few of My Favorite Things / Gold Award winner)
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Lealan M. Jones
is co-author of Our America: Life and Death on the Southside of Chicago, a book
and recently released Showtime movie, that addresses the obstacles facing
today's youth in the inner city. For this work, Jones and collaborator Lloyd
Newman are among the youngest recipients of a Robert F. Kennedy Grand Prize
Award, a George Foster Peabody Award for journalistic excellence and a Prix
ItaliaJones is a student attending Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois. (Trespassing)
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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
and hosted the network's 1999 primetime summer series, Brave New World. His
work on the PBS-TV series Frontline has won him Emmy, George Polk and DuPont
awards. (Once Upon a Time...The
End)
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Margaret Low Smith
is NPR's Vice President for Programming. She oversaw this year's launch of
The Tavis Smiley Show and
The Motley Fool Radio Show. She is now responsible for NPR's music and
entertainment units, acquired programs and new program development. Margaret
got her start in public radio more than 20 years ago, working the overnight
shift under the watchful ear of Jay Kernis and cutting Bob Edwards "two-ways."
She later spent ten years on
All Things Considered, where she produced everything from election
specials to award-winning series — such as Murder, Punishment and Parole in
Alabama, and The Mentally Ill Homeless. (Breakout
Session: Airtime)
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Gwen Macsai
is an award-winning writer and radio producer whose radio essays were heard on
All Things Considered,
Morning Edition and
Weekend Edition Saturday throughout the 1990s. Macsai is also the
creator of the sitcom What About Joan, and author of Lipshtick, a book of
humorous first-person essays. Macsai began her career at WBEZ-FM (1984-87) and
then moved to Radio Smithsonian in Washington, DC (1987-90). After
working at NPR for eight years, she relocated to the midwest, and currently
lives in Evanston with her husband and three children. (Once
Upon a Time...The End)
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Before becoming executive producer of Chicago Matters,
Julia McEvoy
worked as a documentary producer and associate editor for the series, and as a
freelance news correspondent for NPR, Latino USA and Marketplace.
McEvoy has earned numerous awards for her work, including the Public Radio News
Directors Award for a Chicago Matters documentary about rebuilding the
West Side of Chicago 30 years after the King riots. (Breakout
Session: Airtime)
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Joel Meyerowitz
is an internationally known photographer whose work has appeared in over 150
exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He has published eleven
books of color photographs as well as a book on the history of street
photography. Meyerowitz is a Guggenheim fellow and a recipient of both NEA and
NEH awards, and his work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. (Trespassing)
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Karen Michel
started in radio at the age of 5 as a guest on Kids Say the Darndest Things,
then continued her career years later at KUAC FM in Fairbanks, Alaska. From
there she eventually became an independent producer, filing for NPR and moving
to New York City. Since then, Michel has been a regular contributor to NPR's
newsmagazines and has won numerous awards for her documentaries. (Breakout
Session: Voice)
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In 1992
Kaye Mortley
never really intended to work in radio, although she spent a lot of her
Australian childhood listening to it. After studying French literature she
found herself back in Sydney, working as a radio producer for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation. Here she became interested in the "feature" - ‘mind
movies’ for the airwaves. Mortley is now based in Paris, where she works as an
independent producer for France-Culture, other European broadcasting
organizations and the ABC. Her Program Une Famille...a Mantes-la Jolie (A
Family...at Mantes-la-Jolie) was awarded the Prix Europa in 2001. (Featuring...the
Feature)
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Priya Ramu
is the Senior Producer of Metro Morning, CBC Toronto's award-winning local
morning program. Before that, she was the Senior Producer of
Outfront, a forum where Canadians tell their own stories in their own
words and styles on the radio. Priya started her career at CBC Radio working as
a reporter and documentary maker for both local and national programs in
Toronto and Winnipeg. Her work has been recognized by the Canadian Association
of Black Journalists, and by the Gabriel awards. (Pushing
the Boundaries of Everyday Radio)
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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 for public radio.
He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate School of
Journalism. (Once Upon a
Time...The End / Bronze Award winner)
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Heidi Schultz
joined the Cultural Programming Department at Public Radio International in
1991. For the past five years she has worked as Program Manager, Specials &
Limited Series. In this position she evaluates program submissions, and
recommends specials and limited series for distribution by
PRI. Additionally, she advises and assists producers in developing
marketing plans. (Breakout
Sessions: Airtime)
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Jake Shapiro
is Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange, an online service for
peer-review and digital distribution of public radio programming. Previously
Shapiro was Associate Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
at Harvard Law School, and worked as a producer with The Connection ,
a daily, nationally distributed public affairs program from WBUR. Shapiro is
also a musician, composer and co-founder of the independent record label
L-Shaped Records. (Breakout
Sessions: Airtime)
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Taki Telonidis
has been producing public radio for 15 years, first with NPR in Washington DC,
and more recently with collaborator Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center.
Their work appears on NPR's Weekend Edition and PRI's Marketplace
and Savvy Traveler. From 1994 to 1998, Taki was Senior Producer of
NPR's Weekend All Things Considered . Telonidis has received the CPB’s
Gold and Silver Awards. (Breakout
Session: Interview)
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Steve Wadhams
cut his teeth in radio as a studio technician and later a producer at the BBC
in London. He moved to Canada in 1974 and joined the CBC as a producer on As it
Happens. By the late 1970's he began to specialize in documentary work. Wadhams
was one of the founding producers of the the groundbreaking program Sunday
Morning and is currently a producer on
Outfront. He has won many awards for his work, including a Premios
Ondas (from Spain) for innovative radio and a Prix Italia. (Pushing
the Boundaries of Everyday Radio)
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Gregory Whitehead
has been immersed in audio production and play from early childhood, and has
since founded a number of spurious research centers, including the Paul Broca
Memorial Institute for Schizophonic Behavior, the International Institute for
Screamscape Studies and the Laboratory for Innovation and Acoustic Research
(LIAR). His efforts have yielded a wide variety of responses, including awards
such as the BBC Award, Prix Futura and the Prix Italia, which he was relieved
to discover was not a formula racing car event. (Rocks,
Riptides and Buoys: Radio in the Play of the Airwaves)
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