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Robyn Semien is a television and radio producer who has worked on This American Life in radio, television and video formats.

Early life

Semien attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

Career

Film and television

Semien worked as an editor and producer of film and television, including as an associate editor on the first season of This American Life's television documentary series with Showtime, and then as a producer on the second season in 2008. Semien was also a producer on the 2012 video project, This American Life: One Night Only at BAM.

Radio

Semien joined This American Life's radio team in 2007. She's drawn praise for work on a wide array of topics, from card-counting in blackjack,[1] long-haired boys,[2] and her father's car (for the latter, she was the listener-voted favorite in This American Life's 400th-episode competition among the show's producers to see who could develop the best radio story based on an idea pitched by the producer's parents)[3] to race and policing[4] (named to The Atlantic's round-up of "exceptional works of journalism" from 2015)[5] and school inequality and violence. With Julie Snyder and Ira Glass, Semien produced the acclaimed two-part "Harper High School" episode of This American Life about a Chicago high school where 29 students had been shot in the previous year.[6] The episode made "best of" lists at Slate,[7] The Atlantic,[8] Newsweek,[9] and ProPublica,[10] among others. Shortly after the episode aired, President Obama invited Harper High students to the White House, and First Lady Michelle Obama visited the school.[11]

Awards

Semien and collaborators on the "Harper High School" episode won a Peabody Award, the Jack R. Howard Award for Radio In-Depth coverage, the Dart Center prize for journalism and trauma,[12] and the Third Coast International Audio Festival's Gold Award for best documentary.[13]

References

  1. ^ Sturges, Fiona (10 July 2013). "The Week in Radio: It's worth taking a gamble on This American Life". The Independent (UK). Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  2. ^ "The 8 Best 'This American Life' Episodes Of All Time". Clickhole. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  3. ^ Vary, Adam B. (July 11, 2013). "How "This American Life" Made It To Episode 500". Buzzfeed. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  4. ^ Singer, Alan (30 March 2015). "Teaching About Policing and Race in America". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  5. ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (August 11, 2016). "Slightly More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  6. ^ Whitaker, Morgan (March 1, 2013). "This American Tragedy: Gun violence at Harper High School". MSNBC. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  7. ^ Haglund, David (11 July 2013). "Where Do I Start With This American Life?". Slate. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  8. ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (October 29, 2014). "Podcasts So Good You Want to Binge-Listen". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  9. ^ Bindrim, Kira (18 December 2014). "5 Things to Fill the Serial-Sized Hole in Your Life". Newsweek. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  10. ^ Beckett, Lois (19 September 2014). "The Best Reporting on PTSD in Children Exposed to Violence". ProPublica. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  11. ^ Lutton, Linda (June 7, 2013). "Harper High School kids meet the president: 'My whole body just got weak'". WBEZ. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  12. ^ Angelotti, Ellyn (22 December 2014). "Secrets of Prize-Winning Journalism: This American Life's Harper High School". Poynter. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  13. ^ Miner, Michael (October 21, 2013). "It took two: WBEZ's education reporters receive national honors". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 22 August 2016.

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