Living 9/11

Marianne McCune is a senior reporter for New York Public Radio. She was with WNYC when the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001 and spent years reporting on the aftermath. She thinks of the New York Metropolitan Area as the center of the world because that's how she covers it: more than a third of New York residents were born in another country and Marianne has spent much of the past decade reporting on the resulting cultural, economic, and political links between New York/New Jersey and almost everywhere else on earth.

 

Though McCune works in a ‘local’ newsroom, her reporting has also taken her to Pakistan, Haiti, Mexico, Burundi, and Ethiopia. She speaks Spanish and French and has won local and national awards for her reporting. Marianne is also the founder and editor of Radio Rookies, an award-winning series of stories written, reported and produced by New York teenagers.

Emily Botein is a Peabody Award-winning independent radio producer based in New York, with a focus on documentaries and cultural programming. She has launched national shows; produced pilots and selected series; and edited and produced individual pieces. Her work has aired on a range of shows and institutions, including American Routes, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Metropolitan Opera, National Public Radio, The Next Big Thing, Studio 360, Weekend America and WNYC Radio. Emily was a producer at WNYC in 2001 when the World Trade Center was attacked.

Karen Frillmann is WNYC’s managing editor for news. She works on the many and varied stories that emerge from the microphones and recorders of the reporting staff. 

Frillman took on the senior editorial position in the newsroom in 2003.  Awards for her reporting and editing achievements over the past 30 years include recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Armstrong Award, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, The Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Award, The DuPont–Columbia University Award, The Associated Press Broadcasters Association, and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences from whom she received a Grammy nomination. for her production of  “War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars.” 

Chris Bannon is the program director for WNYC AM and FM, as well as for New Jersey Public Radio. Since 2006, he has also managed a portfolio of award-winning local and national programs, including the Brian Lehrer Show, the Leonard Lopate Show, Soundcheck, Freakonomics Radio and Studio 360.

In 2009-10, he led the team that launched WQXR FM as a part of New York Public Radio.

Courtney Stein is an associate producer for Radio Rookies, a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world. She assists in teaching radio and multimedia workshops and works alongside Rookie Reporters to produce stories for air on WNYC Radio.

Stein started out as a youth worker, directing a youth-run restaurant in a Minneapolis park. From there she moved to New York to study social work and community organizing. She made the jump to radio soon after hearing a Radio Rookies story on her Walkman. After training at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and interning at StoryCorps and American RadioWorks, Courtney joined Radio Rookies as a production assistant in 2007 and is now an associate producer.

Sanda Htyte is associate producer at Radio Rookies, a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world. She has been with Radio Rookies since interning with the program in summer of 2005. 

Htyte's own experience as a youth in an after-school theater program gave her the insight to know the importance of her producer/mentor role in Radio Rookies. She believes in how vital it is to be able to have a voice and for this voice to be heard — giving young people the opportunity to express themselves. While interning at Radio Rookies, Sanda was completing her MFA in documentary producing and from 2006 to 2007 she taught Introduction to Radio Production as an Adjunct Lecturer at her Alma Mater, Brooklyn College, CUNY. She was also a Youth Media Learning Network 2009 NYC Fellow. Before coming on board as Radio Rookies producer she worked as freelance video producer, director, editor and did a very short stint as assistant to director Julie Taymor, having the rare opportunity to video archive years of incredible art.

Kaari Pitkin is senior producer for Radio Rookies, a New York Public Radio initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world. Pitkin first became interested in radio at the age of thirteen, when a radio host told her she had a good voice for the air.  Now, of course, it’s not her voice on the radio but the Radio Rookies, and she loves nothing more than helping them tell their stories. 

Kaari started at WNYC in 1997 as an intern in the newsroom and went on from there to become the newsroom’s senior producer, covering everything from mayoral races to the arts to the attacks on September 11. She made the move to WNYC’s youth media project in 2005 and has since then has led Radio Rookies to double the number of youth it works with annually, while continuing to produce high impact, thought-provoking documentaries that bring youth reported stories to the air.  The Radio Rookies features have been recognized by several national journalism awards including the National Edward R. Murrow Award, the RFK Journalism Award, and most recently as a finalist for the Alfred I. Dupont Award.

Eric Leinung was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"

Jillian Suarez was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"

Erin Reeg was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"

Norhan Basuni was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"

John Ellis composed music for WNYC's Dart Award-winning story, "Living 9/11."

John Ellis was born and raised in the rural “tobacco country” of North Carolina, now living in New York, John Ellis has brought a body of rich Southern folkloric material into his writing, leavening it with a finely wrought jazz sensibility.  This is apparent on his recordings “Roots, Branches and Leaves”, “One Foot In The Swamp”, “By A Thread”, and most recently, the sousaphone driven “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” and “Puppet Mischief”.  John has spent significant time in the musical cauldron of New Orleans.  He has studied and performed with Ellis Marsalis, toured extensively in Singapore and other Far Eastern ports of call and worked as a member of bands led by Mos Def, John Patitucci, Darcy James Argue, Jason Marsalis, Todd Sickafoose, Mike Moreno, Sean Smith, Charlie Hunter, Alan Ferber, Bilal Oliver, and more. He co-produced the music for the popular children’s book series, “Baby Loves Jazz”, and he has produced three long-form narrative collaborations with playwright Andy Bragen: “Dreamscapes”, “The Ice Siren”, and “Mobro”.  He took second place in the 2002 Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition.

Fred Mogul was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"

Beth Fertig has been covering city politics, education, and social services for WNYC News since 1995. Her reporting honors include the 2001 Columbia DuPont Silver Baton Journalism Award; the 2000 New York Press Club's Golden Gavel Award for her reporting on New York family courts; and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for a 1998 series uncovering the lack of shelter for homeless teenagers.

Andy Lanset was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"

Paul Schneider was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"

Jim Briggs III was on the Dart Award-winning team behind WNYC's "Living 9/11"