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Stephanie Foo (born 1987) is a radio producer who has worked for Snap Judgment and This American Life.

Early life

Foo attended the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1]

Career

Radio

Foo taught high school journalism after college, and began listening to This American Life and Radiolab. She eventually decided to try her hand at it, hitchhiking to a pornography convention in search of a story, and ultimately starting a podcast called Get Me On This American Life.[2] Another early audio project was a music podcast called Stagedive, where Foo succeeded in reaching a young demographic.[3]

Foo was an intern then a producer at Glynn Washington's Snap Judgment, based in Oakland, then moved to This American Life.[4]

In addition to producer roles at Snap Judgment[5] and This American Life,[6] Foo has also contributed to Reply All and 99% Invisible.[7] She's drawn notice for work on topics ranging from Japanese reality television (a piece Flavorwire named to its list of the 20 best episodes in This American Life's 20-year history)[8] to race and online dating; The New York Observer praised the latter piece as one of Reply All's "most provocative episodes."[9]

In 2015, Foo launched her own podcast called Pilot, with each installment to serve as a pilot episode for a different genre of podcast. CBC's Lindsay Michael named Pilot to a 2016 list of five best recent podcasts, saying Foo has "created her own playground...A place where she can try things out and see how they go."[10]

Writing

Foo has also been noted for her commentary on diversity in media,[11] especially for her 2015 essay, “What To Do If Your Workplace Is Too White.”[12] Introducing the piece at Transom, Jay Allison said it "should be required reading for everyone involved in building our workforce or programming."[13] At Current, Adam Ragusea praised it as "frank and funny,"[14] and Neiman Lab's Nicholas Quah called the piece "fantastic" and Foo "a force of nature."[6]

Awards

Foo produced This American Life's 2015 video project, "Videos 4 U: I Love You,"[15] which garnered three Daytime Emmy nominations: Best Special Class, Short Format Daytime Program; Best Writing Special Class; and Best Directing Special Class,[16] with the project's director Bianca Giaever winning the latter category.[17] The project also won the 2015 Webby Award for Online Film & Video in the Drama: Individual Short or Episode category.[18]

In 2016, Foo won a Knight Foundation grant from the Knight Prototype Fund[19] to work on a This American Life project developing an app for sharing clips of podcasts and other audio via social media.[9] Foo is also a 2016 fellow at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism to work on the same project.[20]

References

  1. ^ Townsend, Peggy (August 26, 2015). "Alumni Profile / 2008: Stephanie Foo: Story hunter". UCSC Newscenter. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. ^ Kurland, Andrea (23 June 2015). "This American Life's Stephanie Foo landed her dream job by embracing failure". Huck. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. ^ Webb, Tiger (16 March 2016). "How to create a diverse workplace". Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  4. ^ McQuade, Eric (24 April 2015). "Interview with Glynn Washington of Snap Judgment". The Timbre. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  5. ^ Oppenheimer, Mark (2013). "NPR's Great Black Hope". The Atlantic. No. July/August. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  6. ^ a b Quah, Nicholas (October 13, 2015). "Hot Pod: WNYC is ready to make a $15 million move into podcasts". Neiman Lab. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  7. ^ Eppinger, Laura (25 August 2015). "Wanting to Be Heard: On Podcasts and Representation". The Toast. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  8. ^ Stone, Abbey (November 17, 2015). "Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of 'This American Life' With Our Favorite 20 Episodes". Flavorwire. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  9. ^ a b Dale, Brady (23 February 2016). "Ira Glass Will Fix Podcast Sharing". The New York Observer. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  10. ^ Bambury, Brent. "Five fantastic podcasts you need to hear now". CBC Day 6 with Brent Bambury. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  11. ^ Quah, Nicholas (September 1, 2015). "Hot Pod: The podcast collective Radiotopia has a new leader". NeimanLab. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  12. ^ Wilson, Benet J. (16 October 2015). "#MediaDiversity: The Struggle Continues, But Solutions Are at Hand - MediaShift". MediaShift.org. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  13. ^ Allison, Jay (8 October 2015). "Stephanie Foo - Transom". Transom. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  14. ^ Ragusea, Adam (October 29, 2015). "'The Pub' #42: This American Life's Stephanie Foo on how to fix public radio's whiteness problem". Current. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  15. ^ Leverant, Zoë (13 February 2015). "'This American Life' Video Series Kicks Off by Helping a Couple Say "I Love You" — After Eight Years". Flavorwire. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  16. ^ Remling, Amanda (30 April 2016). "Daytime Emmy Awards Nominees 2016: A Nominations Refresher Before The May 1 Show". International Business Times. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  17. ^ Johnson, Zach (May 2, 2016). "2016 Daytime Emmy Award Winners: The Complete List". E! News. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  18. ^ "This American Life Videos 4 U: I Love You | The Webby Awards". Webby Awards. International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  19. ^ Lichterman, Joseph (February 23, 2016). "A tool to make audio easier to share, and 10 other media projects the Knight Foundation just funded". NeimanLab. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  20. ^ "Stephanie Foo". towcenter.org. Columbia University.
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