As a journalist who invites challenging projects and applauds variety, crafting a local show never fails to satisfy these fixed desires. Every well-honed skill is employed - researching, interviewing, reporting, editing, broadcasting - sometimes all within a single segment. This is demonstrated with the eclectic audio assemblage on this page.
Over the last 25 years, I've been hugely fortunate to work on more than one interview and features program. There were four, with one broadcast nationally and all based in different cities, including D.C. I was once lucky enough to be tasked with imagining and producing an hour-long show pilot well-received by the folks at PRX.
At each member station I've worked as a show host and/or producer, my other duties were many. My first go at it early on in my career at WFAE-FM in Charlotte, NC provides a representative example. Besides anchoring Morning Edition and regularly filing reports for both local and national broadcast, I also helped host and produce a daily 30-minute interview and features program. No minor undertaking for a three-person newsroom.
This recollection of my adventures in show hosting and producing would be egregiously incomplete if I failed to share the following career-related episode about dreams, decisions, and romance.
Unlike any other, for more than a decade, I've saved this single voice message.
Over the last 25 years, I've been hugely fortunate to work on more than one interview and features program. There were four, with one broadcast nationally and all based in different cities, including D.C. I was once lucky enough to be tasked with imagining and producing an hour-long show pilot well-received by the folks at PRX.
At each member station I've worked as a show host and/or producer, my other duties were many. My first go at it early on in my career at WFAE-FM in Charlotte, NC provides a representative example. Besides anchoring Morning Edition and regularly filing reports for both local and national broadcast, I also helped host and produce a daily 30-minute interview and features program. No minor undertaking for a three-person newsroom.
This recollection of my adventures in show hosting and producing would be egregiously incomplete if I failed to share the following career-related episode about dreams, decisions, and romance.
Unlike any other, for more than a decade, I've saved this single voice message.
I was Charlie finally clutching a golden journalistic Wonka ticket!
In the years leading up to this call, Ira and I had hung out a few times and he liked my work so I decided to apply figuring my chances were pretty good. Thing is, between my applying and his getting back to me a few months later, I had fallen silly in love with a newly arrived co-worker unable to just quit and move across country.
So.
After three torturous days and nights puzzling over whether to follow my passion and pursue my then dream job, or listen to my heart and gamble this budding relationship would endure, I rang up Ira and pulled out of the running for the show producer gig. As a fellow workaholic familiar with career and personal life clashes, he said he totally understood and respected my decision. I felt so proud, shocked too, and admittedly a tiny bit grandiose with self-talk about waging an EPIC battle where I sided with "the better angels" of my nature et cetera.
MANY unexpected events and learned lessons since then, but I'll stop here because it's my strong guess you'll hear everything on a future episode of Ira's show. An unfair tease, agreed.
Meh. <sigh>
(BEGIN FADING DOWN MUSIC)
Fine. Just a wee hint.
(FADE OUT MUSIC TOTALLY)
I'm a complete idiot.
(START FULL WITH MUSIC THEN EVENTUALLY FADE DOWN AND OUT)
In the years leading up to this call, Ira and I had hung out a few times and he liked my work so I decided to apply figuring my chances were pretty good. Thing is, between my applying and his getting back to me a few months later, I had fallen silly in love with a newly arrived co-worker unable to just quit and move across country.
So.
After three torturous days and nights puzzling over whether to follow my passion and pursue my then dream job, or listen to my heart and gamble this budding relationship would endure, I rang up Ira and pulled out of the running for the show producer gig. As a fellow workaholic familiar with career and personal life clashes, he said he totally understood and respected my decision. I felt so proud, shocked too, and admittedly a tiny bit grandiose with self-talk about waging an EPIC battle where I sided with "the better angels" of my nature et cetera.
MANY unexpected events and learned lessons since then, but I'll stop here because it's my strong guess you'll hear everything on a future episode of Ira's show. An unfair tease, agreed.
Meh. <sigh>
(BEGIN FADING DOWN MUSIC)
Fine. Just a wee hint.
(FADE OUT MUSIC TOTALLY)
I'm a complete idiot.
(START FULL WITH MUSIC THEN EVENTUALLY FADE DOWN AND OUT)
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