Emily Hanford
Member of: WUNC
Independent Editor and Producer, Takoma Park, MD
WUNC
Takoma Park, MD
United States
http://www.wunc.org
Joined PRX: February 12, 2004
Emily Hanford is an independent radio producer who works from her home in Takoma Park, MD. Before coming to Takoma Park, Emily was Senior Editor and Producer for North Carolina Public Radio ? WUNC. She continues to work with WUNC as a senior editor and producer overseeing the series "North Carolina Voices." The 2005 series "Understanding Poverty" won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton. Emily also served as News Director at WUNC for five years. During her tenure, the news department won an ?Overall Excellence? award from the Radio-Television News Directors? Association (RTNDA) and dozens of other awards from regional and national journalism associations.
Before coming to WUNC, Emily worked as a reporter and producer for the series "Chicago Matters" at Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ. She was also a news host, producer, general assignment reporter and acting News Director at WBEZ. Emily began her career in public radio at WFCR in Amherst, MA. She has a degree in English and American Studies from Amherst College. She lives with her husband, a theatre professor at Georgetown University, and their two young sons.
"I love to listen. I think it's the best of the five senses! Listening for me has always been about a love of language, a fascination with people's voices and an attraction to stories. I find that my mind is most focused when I am listening; I tend to remember radio pieces much better than I remember, for example, films, or books. I remember the details better, the images, the emotions radio generates. I like all kinds of radio. Short news pieces that give me information, help me understand something. Long documentaries that take me places, explore ideas and emotions, changes over time. Experimental pieces that surprise and challenge. But sometimes stuff that is really "cool" or "hip" or "innovative" does not interest me as much as stuff that is simple and straightforward, human, genuine, earnest(?). But it has to be about ideas. It has to make me think. What I like most about radio as a form is that it can be so direct and straightforward, and yet so subtle and complex at the same time."
