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Adam Ragusea
Ragusea in 2014
Personal information
Born (1982-03-22) March 22, 1982 (age 42)
Pennsylvania, U.S.[‡ 1]
Occupation(s)YouTuber
Professor of journalism (former)
Websitewww.adamragusea.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2010–present (first started producing food videos in 2017)
Genre(s)Cooking, science journalism
Subscribers2.14 million[1]
Total views524 million[1]
100,000 subscribers2019
1,000,000 subscribers2020

Last updated: 15 November 2022

Adam Ragusea is an American YouTuber who creates videos about food recipes, food science, and culinary culture. Until 2020, Ragusea was a professor of journalism at Mercer University.[2][3][4]

Personal life

Ragusea grew up in State College, Pennsylvania.[4] Ragusea graduated from Penn State University.[‡ 2] Since mid-2021, he has lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife, novelist Lauren Morrill, and their two children. He previously lived in Macon, Georgia.[‡ 3][‡ 4]

Career

Journalism

Adam Ragusea was a journalist in residence at Mercer University from 2014 until February 2020.[5][6] Ragusea taught introductory and advanced journalism, and media production classes while still a professor at Mercer.[7] Before becoming a professor, Ragusea worked as a reporter for NPR and its affiliates. He was the longtime host of The Pub, a trade podcast for people in public media.[8] While working at Georgia Public Broadcasting, Ragusea was the Macon Bureau Chief and host of the local Morning Edition. Prior to working at GPB, Ragusea worked at WBUR-FM in Boston, and WFIU in Indiana.[9]

YouTube

Ragusea created his YouTube channel on February 12, 2010, and his first videos were food recipes, made with the intention of sharing with his friends.[10] His videos began to garner attention for his "straight-to-the-point" style that is influenced by his background in journalism.[11] He also cites SpongeBob SquarePants as an influence on his style of comedy, describing it as "edgy but fundamentally ... just a beam of bright sunshine."[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Adam Ragusea". YouTube.
  2. ^ Thomas, June (June 8, 2020). "How Journalist Adam Ragusea Became a YouTube Star". Slate Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
  3. ^ "How YouTuber Adam Ragusea Learned to Talk to the Camera | Working". Slate Magazine. June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
  4. ^ a b Eating Spicy Food Doesn't Mean You're Tough, says SCIENCE, retrieved October 2, 2022
  5. ^ "How Adam Ragusea's journalism background helps him in his YouTube career". YouTube. February 12, 2020. Archived from the original on August 30, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Rammohan, Janani P. (July 4, 2019). "Food videos bring Mercer professor millions of views". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  7. ^ "The CCJ Team - Mercer University". Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  8. ^ "Press Publish 13: Adam Ragusea on podcasts and the pessimist's case for public radio's future". Nieman Lab. August 19, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  9. ^ "Adam Ragusea". Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  10. ^ "Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ-TV. February 13, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  11. ^ "He was teaching at Mercer when a video he posted on YouTube went viral. Now, he's a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ. February 12, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  12. ^ Ragusea, Adam (July 2, 2019). "The professor that went viral". YouTube. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Where I take a lot of inspiration from oddly enough is Spongebob Squarepants ... that show is like there's so much acidity in it, like ... it's edgy but fundamentally it's still just a beam of bright sunshine, you know, I want to be Spongebob upon the world.

Primary sources

In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. ^ Ragusea, Adam (August 3, 2020). "Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)". YouTube. I grew up in central Pennsylvania not far from where Milton Hershey lived, there's an amusement park there called Hershey Park.
  2. ^ Ragusea, Adam (September 28, 2020). "How flash-freezing preserves food quality". YouTube. That's doctor John Coupland, a food science professor at my alma mater Penn State
  3. ^ "About".
  4. ^ "Adam Ragusea on Instagram: "Greetings from Tennessee! Folks have been asking, so I figured I should clear things up and confirm that we did move to Knoxville a few…"". Instagram. Retrieved February 1, 2022.