Nancy Updike is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on radio programs including This American Life and All Things Considered,[1] and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, LA Weekly, The Boston Globe, and Salon.com. She graduated from Amherst College in 1991.
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Personal life
Updike is married to Dan Ephron,[2][3] an editor at Foreign Policy.[4] They had their first date on July 1, 2003 at Focaccia Bar,[5] an Italian restaurant in Jerusalem.[3]
Career
This American Life
Updike won a Peabody Award in 1996 for her work as a producer on This American Life.[6] She won the Edward R. Murrow Award for news documentary (2005),[citation needed] and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award for the episode of This American Life about private contractors in Iraq titled "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help."[7][8]
Serial
Updike is a producer and co-creator of the true crime podcast Serial. Early in production, the creative team found the story falling flat and Updike is credited with asking, "Where's the hunt?," which transformed Sarah Koenig, the show's narrator, into the show's protagonist.[9]
References
- ^ "A Businessman's Life in Gaza". NPR.org. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ "LIVE from NYPL: Why the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Still Divides Israelis 20 Years Later".
- ^ a b "Heavyweight Podcast- Episode 46: Dan".
- ^ "Dan Ephron". Foreign Policy.
- ^ "Focaccia Bar".
- ^ "The Peabody Awards | An International Competition for Electronic Media, honoring achievement in Television, Radio, Cable and the Web – Administered by University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication". WINNERS - 1990'S. The Peabody Awards. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ^ "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help | This American Life". KCRW. 30 July 2006. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ "266: I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help". This American Life. 14 December 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ Sternbergh, Adam (18 March 2019). "How Podcasts Learned to Speak". Vulture. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
External links
- This American Life archive, Updike's segments on the show
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