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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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.13wmaz.com/video/news/local/youtube-professor-mercer-university-creator-influencer-adam-ragusea/93-adae2e65-356f-49d6-a3a6-94c072e08bb3|title=Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator|website=[[WMAZ-TV]]|date=February 13, 2020 |access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref> His videos began to garner attention for his "straight-to-the-point" style that is influenced by his background in journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.13wmaz.com/article/life/people/journalism-professo-turned-youtube-creator/93-12a23947-9aac-403d-8863-66e8d1847f88|title=He was teaching at Mercer when a video he posted on YouTube went viral. Now, he's a full-time YouTube creator.|website=WMAZ|date=February 12, 2020 |access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF7RQVdxCAk&t=101s|title=The professor that went viral|last=Ragusea|first=Adam|date=July 2, 2019|website=YouTube|publisher=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|quote=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.}}</ref> |
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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.13wmaz.com/video/news/local/youtube-professor-mercer-university-creator-influencer-adam-ragusea/93-adae2e65-356f-49d6-a3a6-94c072e08bb3|title=Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator|website=[[WMAZ-TV]]|date=February 13, 2020 |access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref> His videos began to garner attention for his "straight-to-the-point" style that is influenced by his background in journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.13wmaz.com/article/life/people/journalism-professo-turned-youtube-creator/93-12a23947-9aac-403d-8863-66e8d1847f88|title=He was teaching at Mercer when a video he posted on YouTube went viral. Now, he's a full-time YouTube creator.|website=WMAZ|date=February 12, 2020 |access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF7RQVdxCAk&t=101s|title=The professor that went viral|last=Ragusea|first=Adam|date=July 2, 2019|website=YouTube|publisher=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|quote=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.}}</ref> |
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In February 2022, Ragusea began "The Adam Ragusea Podcast" in which he discusses subjects such as food, food science, nutrition, film, broadcasting, and social media. <ref>{{Citation |title=Chicken wings, bodybuilding, and the new Adam Ragusea Podcast |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8LC5EhqoPw |language=en |access-date=2022-11-20}}</ref> |
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=== Music === |
=== Music === |
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| Born | March 22, 1982 Pennsylvania, U.S.[‡ 1] | |||||||||
| Occupation(s) | YouTuber Professor of journalism (former) | |||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2010–present (first started producing food videos in 2017) | |||||||||
| Genre(s) | Cooking, science journalism | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 2.14 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 524 million[1] | |||||||||
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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]
Podcast
In February 2022, Ragusea began "The Adam Ragusea Podcast" in which he discusses subjects such as food, food science, nutrition, film, broadcasting, and social media. [13]
Music
Ragusea created "The Sisko Song", as well as several other original pieces of music for the podcasts The Greatest Generation and The Greatest Discovery.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "About Adam Ragusea". YouTube.
- ^ Thomas, June (June 8, 2020). "How Journalist Adam Ragusea Became a YouTube Star". Slate Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- ^ "How YouTuber Adam Ragusea Learned to Talk to the Camera | Working". Slate Magazine. June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- ^ a b Eating Spicy Food Doesn't Mean You're Tough, says SCIENCE, retrieved October 2, 2022
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The CCJ Team - Mercer University". Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Adam Ragusea". Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
- ^ "Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ-TV. February 13, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chicken wings, bodybuilding, and the new Adam Ragusea Podcast, retrieved November 20, 2022
Primary sources
In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ "About".
- ^ "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.