Celeste Wesson has been Senior Producer of Marketplace since 2003. Her adventures in radio began as a volunteer DJ for a weekly women’s music show in Durham, North Carolina. She anchored daily newscasts there and at WBAI in New York. For NPR, Celeste worked as an editor, show producer (WATC), and as a reporter in the Los Angeles Bureau. She produced and hosted the public affairs series The United States of Los Angeles for KCRW. In 2000, she went to American Public Media as editor of The Savvy Traveler, before joining Marketplace.
Win/Win: AIR's Pitch Panel (Saturday)
By Laura Starecheski, David Krasnow, Julie Snyder & Celeste Wesson
This session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story. (more)
Perfect Pitch -- Part Two
By Neenah Ellis, Peter Clowney, Leda Hartman, David Krasnow & Celeste Wesson
Perfect your pitching skills and present your ideas to program producers and editors — or just listen in — as AIR (Association for Independents in Radio) pulls back the curtain to let us in on how stories make it to the airwaves. (more)
