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Robin Gianattassio-Malle
Born
California
Alma materSan Francisco Art Institute
Occupation(s)Journalist, Visiting Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) and the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Founder of Blue Egg Media
Websitehttp://www.blueeggmedia.com

Robin Gianattassio-Malle is an American journalist and producer specializing in the use of aural and visual media and is founder and executive director of Blue Egg Media,[1] established in 2008.

Gianattassio-Malle lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former Director of The Center for Word, Text and Image,[2][3] she is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute[4] and at the California College of the Arts (CCA),[5] where she teaches courses using interview as a medium for the Upper Division Interdisciplinary Department as well as the Visual Criticism Department.[citation needed]

Education

Gianattassio-Malle earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts[6] from the San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California. In 2000, she was one of twelve journalists awarded a John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship,[7] at Stanford University in Stanford, California where she conducted independent research and participated in J.S. Knight journalism seminars and discussions with Donald Kennedy, Condoleezza Rice, and Anna Deavere Smith.[citation needed]

Journalism career

Gianattassio-Malle's career began as a reporter, producer and host with the National Public Radio (NPR) and Pacifica Network and was a founding member of the KPFA apprenticeship program,[8] recently rebranded as First Voice Media.

In 1988, Gianattassio-Malle became the founding producer and director of Forum,[9] a live two-hour daily live call-in program at NPR Affiliate San Francisco KQED-FM. She produced and reported on a wide range of issues focused on local, national and international affairs and developments in business, politics, technology, arts, and sciences.

Several media arts awards were given to Gianattassio-Malle in the early 1990s from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to produce Silver Threads 1989, Weaving New Images of Aging,[10] a documentary featuring women from around the globe, Original Treasure 1990,[11] a radio documentary on inter-generational friendship and TimeIn TimeOut 1993,[12] a documentary on living with life-threatening illness. During that same period, Gianattassio-Malle produced and directed The Persian Gulf: A National Debate, hosted by Alex Chadwick and distributed via satellite over the NPR network.[citation needed]

During the mid-nineties, Gianattassio-Malle produced and guest hosted the Commonwealth Club of California, a national weekly radio broadcast with topics ranging from politics, culture, society and economics, distributed to over seventy-five U.S. radio stations.[citation needed]

Gianattassio-Malle was awarded the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Asilomar Media Fellowshipand the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, Multi-cultural Producer Forum Fellowship.[citation needed] In 2010 she received a fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.[13] Gianattassio-Malle's residency at the STUDIO, produced a multimedia public interest program focused on the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserves in Pennsylvania, the economic development, and the environmental and social impact on the region.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Home". blueeggmedia.com.
  2. ^ http://www.sfai.edu/page.aspx?page=87 [dead link]
  3. ^ http://www.sfai.edu/Publication/Inform.aspx?InformID=3 [dead link]
  4. ^ "Robin Giannattassio- Malle". San Francisco Art Institute. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
  5. ^ "Faculty - Robin Gianattassio-Malle". California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
  6. ^ http://www.sfai.edu/page.aspx?page=299 [dead link]
  7. ^ "Knight Fellowships Class of 2000". Stanford University. Retrieved 2011-03-14. [failed verification]
  8. ^ http://www.kpfa.aapprentic.org/ [dead link]
  9. ^ "Public Radio". [failed verification]
  10. ^ http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1989.pdf | Page 98 of the Annual Report or page 123 in Adobe Reader [dead link]
  11. ^ http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1990.pdf |Page 152 of Annual Report [dead link]
  12. ^ http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1993.pdf | Page 104 of Annual Report or page 101 in Adobe Reader [dead link]
  13. ^ "Robin Gianattassio-Malle – the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry".
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