Jad Abumrad
| Jad Abumrad | |
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 Abumrad at "Third Coast Festival", Oct. 22, 2005 |
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| Born | April 18, 1973 |
| Show | Radiolab |
| Station(s) | WNYC |
| Style | Host |
| Country |  United States |
| Spouse(s) | Karla Murthy |
| Children | Amil[1] |
Jad Abumrad (born April 18, 1973) is a Lebanese-American radio host and producer. He has reported and produced documentaries for a number of local and National Public Radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero".[2] He currently hosts and produces Radiolab on WNYC. He was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow[3]
Abumrad was raised in Tennessee, where his father, Dr. Naji Abumrad, is a doctor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. (Dr. Abumrad is featured on the Radiolab episode entitled "Placebo."[4]) He attended Oberlin College, where he studied creative writing and music composition. In 2007, he married his college sweetheart, Karla Murthy. She is a TV producer in New York City at PBS, who has worked with Bill Moyers and on NOW. In 2009, they had their first child, Amil. Before entering radio, he wrote music for films.[2] He has said that his background in music has influenced the way he experiments with sound in Radiolab.[5] The December 14, 2009 Radiolab episode In C includes a musical piece by Abumrad remixing the Terry Riley composition In C.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2009/aug/24/after-birth/
- ^ a b Abumrad, Jad. "About the Staff". Archived from the original on 2007-05-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20070501203911/http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/bios.html. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
- ^ "MacArthur Fellows Program: Meet the 2011 Fellows". September 20, 2011. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.7728991/k.12E8/Meet_the_2011_Fellows.htm. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ Radiolab, "Placebo," Show 301, Friday, May 18, 2007
- ^ The Sound of Young America: Podcast: Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
- ^ Radio Lab, "In C," December 14, 2009. Online: http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/12/14/in-c/
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