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Joined PRX: September 7, 2003

Jay Allison is an independent broadcast journalist. His work airs on NPR's All Things Considered, PRI's This American Life, ABC News' Nightline, and other national programs. He is the recipient of five Peabody Awards and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding contributions to public radio, the industry's highest honor.

Allison is the Executive Director of Atlantic Public Media, a non-profit organization he founded to create WCAI & WNAN, the new public radio service for Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket and Cape Cod, where Allison and his family live.

He is a founder of the Association of Independents in Radio and the originator and host of online forums for public broadcasting, from the early days on The WELL in the 1980s up to his latest projects, Transom.org, an Internet portal for bringing new voices and stories to public radio, and The Public Radio Exchange (PRX) an Internet-based system for peer review and distribution of public radio programming? where you now find yourself reading this bio.