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(Producer) John Dankosky

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News Director
WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio
http://www.wnpr.org

 

Affiliations: Member of PRNDI, AIR, PRPD, RTNDA

Joined PRX: September 12, 2003

I'm WNPR's News Director, and the host of Where We Live. You can listen to some shows here. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wnpr/news.newsmain?action=section&SECTION_ID=760

Where We Live is a daily news/talk show. We take Connecticut issues and put them in a broader context...and take global issues and make them relevant where we live. We also use short pieces from PRX as conversation-starters. Aaron Henkin interviewed me about this here: http://www.prx.org/articles/817

A good example of the kind of work we've used? How about Connecticut writer Ken Cormier's excellent "The Lumberyard." http://www.prx.org/user/gravitron1/

Essential Radio is our documentary slot...it's been moved to occasional weeknights at 7 p.m. I choose most of the pieces from PRX.

Periodically, you'll hear me reporting for NPR, like this story from Day to Day's series on Bridgeport, CT: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5788251

Here's a PRX story on Jazz Trumpeter Dave Douglas: http://www.prx.org/pieces/6755

While you're on PRX, check out these docs I edited:

"The Wild Child: Coping with a Bipolar Youth," by Karen Brown: http://www.prx.org/pieces/2710

"The Traveling Radio Show Goes to NYC" by Jeff Jacoby: http://www.prx.org/pieces/3078

"All Available Boats" by David Tarnow: http://www.prx.org/pieces/2196

And, this Hearing Voices special I hosted...it's about the circus: http://www.prx.org/pieces/11649

(PS - The "Lion Tamer" piece freaked some people out. Decide for yourself.)

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