Jay Allison's Bio
Jay Allison is an independent broadcast journalist. His work airs on NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, PRI's This American Life, ABC News' Nightline, and other national programs. He is now heard weekly on NPR as the curator and co-producer of This I Believe. Over the last twenty-five years, he has created hundreds of documentaries, essays, and special series for national and international broadcast, and has won virtually every major industry award for his productions and collaborations, including the duPont-Columbia and five Peabodys. He was the 1996 recipient of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding contributions to public radio, the industry's highest honor. In 2002, he received the Public Radio News Directors' Leo C. Lee Award for lasting commitment to public radio journalism. He is co-producer of Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project and Hidden Kitchens (with the Kitchen Sisters), The Miles Davis Radio Project (with Steve Rowland & Quincy Troupe), Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project (with Laurie Block), and many other series, including Life Stories (with Christina Egloff), a project which gives tape recorders to citizens and supports them in telling about their own lives. For his Nightline documentaries, Allison has worked as a solo-crew - shooting, reporting, and producing his half-hour specials. Ted Koppel has called him "a journalist in the finest tradition." He is the Executive Director of Atlantic Public Media (APM), a non-profit organization he founded to create two new public radio stations for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, WCAI & WNAN, in collaboration with WGBH-Boston. The stations now broadcast from Woods Hole, Massachusetts where Allison and his family live. On WCAI/WNAN, Allison hosts a weekly 4-hour "documentary DJ" program called Arts & Ideas. Allison has taught journalism and production around the United States. He is a founder of the Association of Independents in Radio and the originator and host of online forums for public broadcasting, from the early days on The WELL in the 1980s up to his latest project with APM, Transom.org, an acclaimed Internet portal for bringing new voices and stories to public radio. Transom is the first website ever to win the coveted Peabody Award and has been nominated twice by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science's for its annual Webby Award naming it one of the "best 150 sites on the Internet." Also through APM, Allison is the originator and co-founder of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), an innovative Internet-based distribution system for public radio. Allison's essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and other publications. Before coming to broadcasting, Allison was a theatre director, running a storefront theatre in Washington, DC and working with experimental theatres in New York City in the early 1970s. He studied at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre and with the Russian director Zinovy Korogodsky in Leningrad during a year in Europe on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
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