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Jad Abumrad
is the host and producer of WNYC's Radio Lab, an award-winning radio
series that explores big ideas in science and beyond through conversation,
sound and storytelling. Prior to joining WNYC, Jad worked as an independent
reporter, producer and documentarian for a variety of local and national
programs. He was also a member of the team that launched PRI's The Next Big
Thing and has been a teacher-mentor for WNYC's Radio Rookies. Prior to
radio, Jad wrote music for films and studied music composition and creative
writing at Oberlin College. (Music:
A Force for Good (and Sometimes Evil))
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Emily Botein is an independent producer based in Brooklyn. She
joined PRI's The Next Big Thing in 1999 and worked there through June
2005. Before landing at WNYC, Emily explored a range of freelance radio
projects, from tracking down Gulf-Coast shrimpers in Texas to recording suicide
prevention tests for teenagers in Harlem. Pre-radio, Emily honed her
interviewing skills developing exhibits at the Smithsonian's Center for
Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and her production skills cooking appetizers at
a four-star restaurant in New York City. (Anatomy
of a Radio Piece)
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After a long career as a radio documentarian and head of the Radio
Documentary Department at the VRT ( Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep),
Edwin Brys
now leads the Radio Training Department there. He teaches radio documentary
radio at the Institute for Drama, Radio and Television in Brussels, and is a
member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Radio Documentary Project Group
and the International Features Conference. Brys co-produced Everyday Something
Disappears with Luc Haekens, which won prizes at the the Prix Italia,
Prix Europa and Premios Ondas in 1993. In 2002 he started up the EBU Master
School for young documentary producers, and in 2004 compiled a box set with an
overview of 30 years of radio documentaries from Europe and beyond. (Radio
Across Time Zones)
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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 race relations for NPR. He currently hosts and produces the Peabody
Award-winning show This American Life, and was named the 2001
"America's Best Radio Host" by Time Magazine. (Audio
Doctor, Meet the
Makers)
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Marty Goldensohn is a veteran
journalist of radio, TV and print. He has worked as the New York Bureau Chief
of Marketplace, news director of WBAI and for WNYC, where he anchored New
York Considered. His TV program on WNET-13, Currents, won
Emmys for coverage of the AIDS epidemic and other issues. He currently produces
War News Radio at Swarthmore College, a bi-weekly program devoted
soley to the war in Iraq. In addition, Goldensohn anchors live programming on
WNYC and makes a documentary each year. (Voice
With a Capital "V")
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Barrett Golding
has worked in radio for a quarter-century, with stints as NPR Engineer (DC) and
KGLT General Manager (Montana); and always as an independent audio producer.
His works are broadcast by NPR, PRI, APM, BBC, CBC, VOA and CBS. He's won a few
awards (NFCB, American Bar Association, Scripps Howard), and a few more as part
of The DNA Files team (duPont-Columbia, Peabody). Golding is grateful for all
the CPB and NEA support his productions have received, and is most proud of the
kick-ass collection of pieces and producers in his
HearingVoices.com radio/web project and producer collective. (Voices
Made Me Do It, Audio
Doctor)
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Anne Hull is an enterprise
reporter on the national staff of the Washington Post. She focuses on
transformations in American society, often writing about immigration, race and
class. In 2004, her reporting took her to Newark and Tulsa, where she wrote
about the struggles of two young people coming to terms with their
homosexuality in a country charged by the politics of gay marriage. The
resulting series, Young and Gay in Real America, was a Pulitzer Prize
finalist. Hull has twice won the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Distinguished Writing Award and her stories have been widely anthologized,
including in the publication Best American Political Writing 2002. (A
Sense of Place)
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Michael Kavanagh
is an independent reporter and producer based in New Haven, CT. He began
working in radio as an intern at NPR's Talk of the Nation, and then
went on to work for The Connection, On the Media, and The Next Big
Thing. He has taught and mentored WNYC's Radio Rookies and trained
community radio journalists in Afghanistan. His domestic & foreign reporting
now appears regularly on NPR & PRI's news magazines, Slate, Grist, and the
Boston Globe. Kavanagh was a 2004 Pew Fellow in International Journalism. (Ready,
Set, Go! Presenting the 2005 Third Coast Festival ShortDocs: Stories about
Games)
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NPR science correspondent
David Kestenbaum
comes to radio through the traditional route of a PhD in particle physics. He
believes that radio is way better than print, that anybody can be made to say
something interesting if you poke them enough times, and that when there is no
scene in a story you should make one. He also believes that radio should make
you cry and think and be narrative where possible but the best way to
heroically save a boring story is to really come up with a better idea.
Kestenbaum has been at NPR since 1999. (Explaining
the World in Four Minutes)
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The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva)
have been producing radio programs together since 1979. They are the creators
with Jay Allison of the Peabody Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound,
on All Things Considered and the Peabody Award - winning NPR series The
Sonic Memorial Project. They're currently producing Hidden Kitchens,
a series of radio stories that explores how communities come together through
food, for NPR's Morning Edition; additionally a Hidden Kitchens
book and CD compilation have just been published. The Kitchen Sisters'
groundbreaking national radio collaborations have brought together independent
producers, NPR, stations, artists, writers, archivists, historians and public
radio listeners throughout the country to create richly layered, highly
produced radio documentaries that chronicle untold stories of American culture
and traditions.
In addition to production of artistic and educational media, The Kitchen
Sisters are involved in educating and training new voices for public media.
They teach at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and frequently
lecture and provide training at universities, festivals, workshops, radio
stations, public forums and events throughout the country. They also train and
work with interns, college students and Youth Radio apprentices, and
participate in the life of the public radio community throughout the country. (Close
Listening; Audio Doctor) Photo by Sandra W. Geroux |
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Tod Maffin
is a national producer for CBC Radio and one of its thought-leaders for
interactive radio. He hosted a live interactive radio show in 2000 called
todradio.com which used a live audience chat room and direct listener control
to produce the program. Maffin is a podcasting pionee, including "How to Do
Stuff" and "/Nerd". Maffin is editor of the radio category of
ipodder.org, maintains the PublicRadioFeeds.com
site and is the founder of the popular iloveradio.org
blog. (Podcasting: Believe the
Hype)
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Torey Malatia
is president and general manager of Chicago Public Radio, where he oversees
day-to-day operations, programming and production decisions. Malatia began
working in radio in 1972 as music director for classical station KHEP-FM in
Phoenix. His career took him to Chicago's Classical station WMFT, where he
spear-headed the Beethoven Satellite Network, then to Seattle, where he served
as program director of KUOW-FM. Malatia returned to Chicago
where he joined WBEZ in 1993 as vice president of programming until 1996, when
he assumed his current role as general manager. Recently, Public Radio
International recognized Malatia with its Award for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship. (Radio Across
Time Zones)
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Rick Moody is the author of the novels Garden
State, The Ice Storm, Purple America and most
recently The Diviners, as well as two collections of stories, The Ring
of Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology. He has also
published a genealogical memoir, The Black Veil, and co-edited (with
Darcey Steinke) and the anthology of essays, Joyful Noise: The New Testament
Revisited. His short work has appeared in The New York Times, The New
Yorker, Harper's Esquire, The Atlantic and the Village
Voice. (The Third
Coast Festival presents: One Ring Zero with Special Guests Rick Moody and Julia
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Michele Norris
hosts All Things Considered, public radio's longest-running national
program, with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. Before coming to NPR in 2002,
Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, reporting for World News Tonight
with Peter Jennings, and Nightline. Norris has also reported for the
Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. A four-time Pulitzer
Prize entrant, Norris has received numerous awards for her work, including the
1989 Livingston Award and both an Emmy Award and Peabody Award for her
contribution to the ABC News network’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
(Ready, Set, Go! Presenting the
2005 Third Coast Festival ShortDocs: Stories about Games) Photo by
Jason Miccolo Johnson
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Dean Olsher
began his career at the age of 14 at WCVH in Flemington, NJ, and has spent the
succeeding 28 years in radio, starting at small AM stations situated in the
swamplands of New Jersey, going on to serve as NPR’s cultural correspondent and
finally becoming the creator and host of The Next Big Thing
from PRI. Olsher is excited about the future of podcasting and is a devoted
listener to The Dawn and Drew Show. (Voice
With a Capital "V") Photo by Christine Butler
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One Ring Zero
is a Brooklyn-based duo (Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp) that has released five
CDs, including their critically claimed album, As Smart As We Are, a
book-cum-CD, featuring songs with lyrics contributed by authors including
Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, A.M. Homes and Rick
Moody. One Ring Zero has performed at music venues and cultural institutions
including the Whitney Museum of Art, Central Park Summer Stage and Toronto’s
Harbourfront Centre. The band's music has been featured in
dance concerts, films and animations, fashion shows, and public radio
programming including This American Life, Fresh Air and The
Next Big Thing. The Third Coast Festival presents: One Ring Zero with
Special Guests Rick Moody and Julia Slavin. (The
Third Coast Festival Presents: One Ring Zero with Guets Rick Moody and Julia
Slavin)
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Czerina Patel is the Senior Producer of Radio Rookies, a WNYC project that
trains young New Yorkers to use words and sounds to tell true stories about
themselves, their community and the world. She has been involved with the
program – seen as a model for youth media nationwide – since its
inception. Patel found her love for radio as a student at Columbia University's
Graduate School of Journalism. Patel, a native South African, is also very
passionate about travel, photography and politics. (The
Future of Radio is Now)
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Robyn Ravlich
is the executive producer of the Radiophonic Unit of ABC Radio National, and a
feature maker with a distinctive sound signature. Ravlich has worked on a range
of innovative ABC programs such as The Listening Room and Surface
Tension, and was the organizer of the 27th International Feature
Conference (Sydney 2001) and president of the Radio Documentary jury of the
Prix Italia (Bologna 2001) In 2002 her documentary about asylum seekers On the
Raft, All at Sea was awarded the Human Rights Radio Award and the
United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize for Radio. (Radio
Across Time Zones)
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Melissa Robbins
has worked as an independent producer and as an associate producer with The
Kitchen Sisters and Homelands Productions. She has contributed to the Hidden
Kitchens and Worlds of Difference series for NPR, and Cutting
Loose for the BBC World Service. Robbins studied radio production at
the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and previously worked as a newspaper
reporter in London and New York City. (Ready,
Set, Go! Presenting the 2005 Third Coast Festival ShortDocs: Stories about
Games)
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Rob Rosenthal
is the Director of the Radio Program at the Salt Institute for Documentary
Studies in Portland, Maine. His work has received awards from the National
Federation of Community Broadcasters and from The Maine Association of
Broadcasters. He is currently working on an audio tour of the Kennebec River. (Audio
Doctor)
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Neil Sandell
is senior producer of CBC’s award-winning daily program Outfront, for
which he read 932 story pitches last year. He began in radio writing plays, and
is now a veteran producer of CBC current affairs programs such as As It
Happens, Morningside, Ideas and Quirks & Quarks. Sandell's
work has won recognition from the Gabriel Awards, the New York Festivals and
Amnesty International Canada. His first paying job working with words was
inscribing gravestones. Ultimately, he found it an editorial dead end...but he
did learn the importance of proofreading.(You
Had Me at Hello: The Art of the Pitch)
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Third Coast Festival Managing Director
Julie Shapiro
has been with the Festival since its inaugural year (2000). Before moving to
Chicago, she worked at the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke, and while living in North Carolina she
also produced Storylines Southeast, a public radio series about
literature from that region. She was assistant director of
Transmissions, an annual experimental, electronic sound and art
festival from 1998-2001. Shapiro makes audio art for public presentation and
can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves. (Radio
Across Time Zones) Photo by Stu Mullenberg
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Jeremy Skeet
is managing editor of Weekend America. He moved to California with his
family in 2004 to help launch the show. Before that he spent 14 years with the
BBC, serving as editor and producer, supplying the BBC World Service with its
current affairs and working for the BBC Radio 4 news
programs. Skeet also produced business and arts programs for BBC TV, and he
started his career reporting on and from Africa. (You
Had Me at Hello: The Art of the Pitch)
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Judith Sloan
is an actress, audio artist, oral historian and educator whose multi-character
solo performances combine humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. Her work has
been published by W.W. Norton, Second Story Press and The NY Times OP Ed, and
produced for National Public Radio, New York Public Radio and in theatres
throughout the U.S. She often collaborates with her husband Warren Lehrer with
whom she co-founded EarSay, an arts organization dedicated to uncovering and
portraying stories of the uncelebrated. They created the award-winning book and
multimedia project Crossing the BLVD:
Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America. (Ready,
Set, Go! Presenting the 2005 Third Coast Festival ShortDocs: Stories about
Games) Photo by Warren Lehrer
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Julie Snyder
is the senior producer of the public radio program This American Life where
she oversees story pitches, story development and general editorial content. (You
Had Me at Hello: The Art of the Pitch)
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Concerned with exploring the technological possibilities and social space of
radio,
Martin Spinelli
has been producing mainstream, innovative and literary projects for public and
commercial radio in the U.S., Britain and Europe for nearly fifteen years. Also
a radio critic, Spinelli has written numerous essays on radio history and
aesthetics for publications ranging from the Journal of Postmodern Culture to
Resonance. He is currently writing a book about the history of literary
experiment on radio called The Mediated Word, and is a senior lecturer
at the University of Sussex and an associate professor in radio and media
studies at the City University of New York. (Close
Listening)
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Susan Stamberg
has been a journalist and host with NPR for over 30 years. In 1972, as the
co-host of the fledgling new program All Things Considered, she made
broadcast history by becoming the first woman in the country to anchor a
national news program. Stamberg, who has been inducted into the Broadcast Hall
of Fame, is currently a Special Correspondent for NPR. (Ask
Away!)
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Chris Turpin
has been Executive Producer of NPR’s All Things Considered since 2002.
He discovered the joys of radio while at graduate school in the late 1980s,
hosting a late night alternative music show at the local public radio station,
while also producing a monthly news magazine for the community station. Prior
to joining NPR, Turpin held a variety of editorial and production positions at
MonitoRadio. He also taught young broadcast journalists in the Balkans, Central
Asia, Indonesia and the Caucuses for Internews, a non-profit organization that
fosters open media in emerging democracies. Turpin grew up just outside
London.(You Had Me at Hello: The
Art of the Pitch)
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Steve Wadhams
has been in love with radio ever since that day in 1968 when he entered a BBC
training studio and realized that here was a "magic space" offering portals to
other places and other times, other minds and other worlds. Wadhams moved to
Canada in 1974 to join CBC and has since produced numerous features ranging
from the journalistic to the impressionistic, some of which have won awards in
Canadian, American and European competitions. Currently Wadhams is a producer
with CBC's daily program Outfront, which is a daily forum that gives
Canadians the opportunity to tell their stories in styles varying from dramatic
monologue to experimental documentary. (Radio
Across Time Zones)
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Benjamen Walker
is the creator and host of the weekly radio program Theory of Everything,
which has aired on public radio stations around the country and was the first
weekly public radio program to start podcasting. He is an affiliate at the
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law, the birthplace of
podcasting. Walker was recently hired by PBS' American Experience to
produce podcasts for their 2005 season. His website is
www.toeradio.org. (Podcasting
- Belive the Hype)
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Aaron Ximm
is a San Francisco-based field recordist and sound artist. Since 1998 his Quiet
American project has focused on constructing new soundscapes from the intimate
recordings he collects while traveling. Ximm's recordings and compositions have
appeared in a variety of contexts, including galleries, performance and on the
radio. His popular One Minute Vaction project is now available as a weekly
podcast. Ximm and his wife Bronwyn won the Third Coast Festival's Directors'
Choice Award in 2002 for their collaboration Annapurna: Memories in Sound,
which is available for download along with hours of other recordings and
compositions at quietamerican.org.
(Sounds Loved and Sounds Lost)
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Ben Yagoda is the author of The
Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing, About Town: The New
Yorker and the World It Made and Will Rogers: A Biography;
the coeditor of The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism;
and the coauthor of All in a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Ruth Westheimer.
As a freelance journalist, he has contributed to magazines that start with
every letter of the alphabet except j, k, q, x and z. He is currently Professor
of English and Director of the Journalism Program at the University of
Delaware. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Gigi Simeone,
and their two teenaged daughters. (Voice
With a Capital "V")
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Pamela Z is a composer/performer who
makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic
processing and sampled sounds. She has also composed scores for dance, film,
and new music chamber ensembles, and her audio works have been presented in
exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. Pamela
Z has toured throughout the US, Europe and Japan in concerts and festivals
including Bang on a Can, the Japan Interlink Festival and the Venice Biennale.
Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the ASCAP Award and the
NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. For information visit www.pamelaz.com (Voice
With a Capital "V")
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