Jay Allison has been the originator and host of online forums for public broadcasting, from the early days on The WELL in the 1980s up to his latest projects, Transom.org and Public Radio Exchange. Read more about these projects below.
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In 2001, Jay Allison and Atlantic Public Media launched Transom.org - An Internet showcase & workshop for new stories and voices for public radio. It's a kind of open master class for both radio beginners and veterans alike. Transom is the first and only stand-alone website ever to receive the presitigious Peabody broadcasting award.
Learn more at www.transom.org.
Public Radio Exchange
Jay Allison is the originator and co-founder of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), an online service for peer-review and digital distribution of public radio programming, creating a web-based bridge between producers and stations. It is a decentralized partnership that provides good homes to good works, more broadcast opportunities for the people who create them, and sparks of freedom, imagination, initiative, and creative vision for a mature public radio field. PRX has changed the architecture of public radio distribution.
Learn more at www.prx.org.
Other Projects...
Jay Allison is currently the Host and Curator of NPR's This I Believe, which won the 2006 Webby Award. He collaborates often with his friends Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson (The Kitchen Sisters) on projects for NPR News. He was the co-producer and Curator of the Quest for Sound on All Things Considered's Lost & Found Sound and was also the Curator for the Sonic Memorial Project. Both series which Peabody Awards and were noted for their websites. Recently, Jay worked with the Sisters as Curator for the duPont-Columbia Award-winning Hidden Kitchens for NPR's Morning Edition.
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