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Geoffrey Baer has worked in
broadcast television for twenty years, and has spent the past twelve years at
WTTW, Chicago's PBS station. He is host and writer of an ongoing series of WTTW
documentaries on Chicago history and architecture. He is also Executive
Producer of WTTW’s ongoing program Artbeat Chicago and of Chicago
Stories, documentaries about people and events in Chicago (First
round)
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Nora Moreno Cargie has worked as a
marketing and communications executive for more than a decade and is currently
the Director of Marketing and Development for the Day Care Action Council of
Illinois. Cargie spent the early part her career working for public radio,
first at Chicago Public Radio and then on National Public Radio's Weekend All
Things Considered. (First round)
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Karen Cirillo serves as the
Associate Director - Film / Programming of the DoubleTake Documentary Film
Festival. After graduating from Duke University in 1997, she taught Oral
History in the Community Stories program at the Center for Documentary Studies.
(First and final round)
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Cheryl Corley is a reporter at NPR's
Midwest Bureau based in Chicago. She is also a substitute host of NPR's Morning
Edition and Weekend All Things Considered. Prior to joining NPR in 1995,
Corley was the news director at Chicago's Public Radio Station, WBEZ-FM. She
has worked as a reporter for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, and is a frequent
panelist on public television news shows. (First round)
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Carlos Cumpian is the
editor-in-chief of MARCH Abrazo Press, the oldest Midwestern small press
publishing poetry by Chicanos, Native Americans and Latina/os. Cumpian's third
book, Armadillo Charm, was published by Tia Chucha Press. When not
working as a high school teacher, Cumpian occasionally teaches poetry workshops
at Columbia College in Chicago. (First round)
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Andrea De Fotis is an independent
radio producer based in Chicago. Most recently, De Fotis was Audio Editor for
CITY 2000, a one-year photography, video and audio documentary project designed
to capture and preserve a record of life in Chicago in the year 2000.
Previously she worked at Chicago Public Radio where she produced the award
winning news magazine Eight Forty Eight. (First round)
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Wendy Dorr began working in radio in
1997 as a volunteer for KCRW in Santa Monica. After moving to New York in 1998,
Wendy met Joe Richman (producer of Teenage Diaries and Prison Diaries
series on All Things Considered and has been working with him ever
since. Wendy is also a contributor to This American Life and is
spending the summer of 2001 as their interim producer. (First round)
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Susannah Felts lives in Chicago and
teaches documentary studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She
received her MFA from SAIC in 2000, and has published creative writing in The
Sun, Verbatim, and Little Engines, and nonfiction
work in several magazines and alternative newsweeklies. (First round)
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Deborah George is the Senior
Producer of American RadioWorks, the documentary project of Minnesota Public
Radio and NPR News. She has worked as a reporter and field producer in the
U.S., Asia, and Latin America. She's also the editor of Joe Richman’s Radio
Diaries series on All Things Considered. Her work has earned
numerous awards including the Ohio State Award and the Edward R. Murrow
(RTNDA). (First and final round)
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Jeremy Hobson started his public
radio career at age nine hosting a children’s show for member station WILL in
Urbana, IL. Hobson has spent the last two summers working as a host, reporter,
and producer for Atlantic Public Media and spends the rest of the year working
for WILL in Urbana, where he is starting his sophomore year at the University
of Illinois. (First round)
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Ira Glass is the host and producer
of WBEZ's Peabody Award-winning program, This American Life. Glass
began his career in public radio as an intern at National Public Radio
headquarters in Washington when he was 19 years old. Since then, he has worked
on nearly every NPR news program and done virtually every production there.
Glass has won many awards, including Time Magazine’s "Best Radio Host in
America” earlier this year. (First and final round)
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Shirley Jahad is a veteran news
correspondent and documentary producer at WBEZ who has covered politics, social
issues, arts, and culture for the station since 1991. She also works as a
correspondent for Chicago Public Television's Chicago Tonight program. In 1998
she received the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy award for best radio production
nationwide from the Associated Press for her documentary Picture Me Rolling.
(First round)
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Eric Leonardson is an
electro-acoustic composer, radio artist, sound designer and instrument
inventor. In the 1980s he co-founded the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.
Over the past decade he has produced concerts and performed throughout North
America, Japan, and Germany. Leonardson also teaches at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and Columbia College. (First round)
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Peter Margasak is a staff writer at The
Chicago Reader, where he has authored the music column Post No Bills
since 1996. His freelance work has appeared in many publications including Down
Beat, The New York Times and JazzTimes. (First
round)
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Vincent Van Merwijk is an
independent radio producer based in the Netherlands. He produces social
documentaries for the educational broadcasting company—RVU, Radio Netherlands.
He also produces work about international issues in Africa, the Soviet Union,
Asia and Europe. Van Merwijk is the winner of the Zilveren Reissmicrofoon, the
most prestigious radio award in the Netherlands and is co-author of De
Radiodocumentaire, a handbook for documentary makers. (First and final
round)
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Milos Stehlik is co-founder and
director of Facets Multimedia, a leading national media arts center. Since
1975, he's managed Facets' public programs which include screenings of foreign
and independent films and video, the Chicago International Children's Film
Festival and Facets Video, a pioneering catalog of over 50,000 foreign,
independent, classic American, silent, fine arts and quality children’s videos.
(First and final round)
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Paul Tough is a features editor at The
New York Times Magazine and the editor of Open Letters (openletters.net),
a currently dormant online magazine of first-person writing. He has been a
contributing editor of This American Life since its inception, and a
contributing editor of Transom.org. His print reporting has appeared
in Esquire, and The New Yorker. (First and final round)
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Nancy Updike is a writer and
independent radio producer in Los Angeles. She's contributed stories to All
Things Considered, This American Life, Salon.com and
others. Updike was a producer at This American Life for its first four
years and is now a contributing editor. Before that, she was a tape cutter for Fresh
Air and a reporter for WFCR in Amherst, MA. (First and final round)
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