Radio Workshop, hands down my favorite class of the year, wrapped up last night. I have learned many things this year, but persistent and nagging anxieties that I haven’t learned enough or the right things are still occasionally fluttering around. My last several pieces were, to my mind, boring and unnecessary. [...]
An Upstart Up Against a Jewel - New York Times
Good article laying out the basics of the Takeway, where I’ll be officially starting in just over a week.
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Well, O.K., his opening was a little lame; the reference to Grand Theft Auto had to do with the fact that the latest version of the game was [...]
… there’s a difference in how it feels to go to bed at 9:30 p.m. and get up at 4:30 a.m. as compared to going to bed at 8:30 p.m. and getting up at 3:30 a.m.
8:30 p.m. felt like a profoundly unnatural time to go to sleep. I think my body thought I might [...]
I have been verbally offered and verbally accepted a job as Web Producer for the new, national, morning show being developed here in New York at WNYC: The Takeaway. The show aims to be national in scope and will be competing with NPR’s Morning Edition.
The job is more web-oriented and less directly radio-oriented [...]
Long piece on the BBC yesterday about Damien Hirst, the artist most well known for his works involving dead animals in tanks of formaldehyde. Also my last day at work, my last (formal) chance to make sure that the people taking on my various roles have the knowledge necessary to keep the same balls [...]