My Source Radio Testimonial Awards: Judges

 

 

A world-class team of six judges will review your submissions, including a mix of marketing and new media experts, award winning producers, and programming pros. Meet the team below.

 

All entries will be evaluated using these criteria:

• Distinctive and authentic local voices and sensibility.
• Compelling illustrations of how and why public radio impacts people’s lives and their communities.
• Demonstrated effort to engage with listeners in the production of each entry.
• Application of Public Radio’s Core Values as defined by the Public Radio Program Directors.
• Overall creativity in radio production.
• Demonstrated and creative use of submitted testimonial on platforms other than radio (web, print, TV, etc).

 

 

JUDGE BIOS AND PICS

 

 

John Barth

 

When John Barth isn't listening to cool stuff from his perch as Managing Director at the Public Radio Exchange, he is boring people with stories about his days as a reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, the challenges of getting Marketplace off the ground and life at the top of the food chain at AOL where he ran the news operation. John has graded tons of papers and taught students at George Washington University, managed original content at Audible.com and struggled with maintenance requests at a truck driver training school. He knows great story-telling when he hears it, and can tell right away if you could master the gearboxes on an 18-wheeler.

 

 

Julie Shapiro

 

Julie Shapiro is Managing Director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Before moving to Chicago, Shapiro worked at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and while living in North Carolina produced Storylines Southeast, a public radio series about literature from that region. She was assistant director of Transmissions, an annual experimental sound and art festival from 1998-2001. Shapiro makes audio art for public presentations and can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves. She teaches about documentary radio at the college level and maintains a blog about sound/s.

 

 

Terrence McNally

 

Terrance McNally is a journalist and radio host, is also a consultant, speaker, writer, and coach to public agencies, foundations, non-profits, and responsible corporations. His radio show, “Free Forum” on KPFK 90.7fm, Los Angeles, features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. McNally speaks on strategic communications and the power of storytelling, as well as on issues of social responsibility and sustainable development. His organizational work encourages and focuses communication, creativity, and cooperation; resolves conflicts; clarifies and aligns vision, mission and objectives; and develops plans for effective action. McNally is one of the most popular speakers in the history of the PRDMC conference, and he blogs at http://www.aworldthatjustmightwork.com/.

 

 

Michael Garofalo

 

Michael Garofalo is a Senior Producer at StoryCorp. He fell for New York’s panoply of voices while teaching English as a Second Language, Literacy, and Writing in schools throughout the city. He was a StoryCorps intern and facilitator before joining Production in 2004. Michael also makes music using radios — among other things — as a member of the electro-acoustic duo Latitude/Longitude. He is a Transmission Artist with the non- profit arts organization free103point9.

 

 

Jody Evans 

 

Jody is the Program Director at Vermont Public Radio and the Chair of the Board of the Public Radio Program Directors Association. Jody joined VPR in 1998 as a producer and was named Director of Programming in 1999.   Jody is regularly advises on national programs by NPR, American Public Media and Public Radio International. She is the recipient of various awards, including the PRPD Ace Award for excellence in programming and fundraising. Most recently, she received the Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Community Radio Programming and a Gabriel Award for Vermont Reads! First They Killed My Father. Prior to VPR, Jody worked in public and commercial television and radio news both in Vermont and Ohio.

 

 

Marcus Doucette

 

Marcus Doucette, (aka Marcus Garvey) has been a presence on the Milwaukee music scene since the turn of the century. At the time, fresh-faced and idealistic, English degree in hand, he turned to music as a means to escape the boredom of poverty. For the next seven years, he escaped the boredom if not the poverty by working as a club DJ and playing fine vinyl and at some of Milwaukee's most interesting gatherings. At 88Nine RadioMilwaukee, his evolution continues, joining with others to create something new and excitingly refreshing for his home town.

 

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