Lynn Neary, Host — Lynn is a correspondent and a frequent guest host on NPR’s newsmagazines and its talk show, Talk of the Nation. In 1982, she became a newscaster on Morning Edition, before becoming weekend host of All Things Considered from 1984 to 1992.
Neary joined NPR’s cultural desk in 1993 and developed the network’s first religion beat. She shared in NPR’s 1994–95 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for reporting on welfare reform and her reports were included in NPR’s coverage of the “104th Congress: The Changing of the Guard: The Republican Revolution.” She also won a 1999 Gabriel Award for her report on a program for prisoners in New York’s Sing Sing prison.
Neary has also been honored with a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award, an Ohio State Award, an Association of Women in Radio and Television Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “625 K Street,” a report on what had been labeled the worst public housing in the District of Columbia.
A native New Yorker, she earned a B.A. in English at Fordham University.
Bari Scott, Executive Producer — Bari is the Executive Director of SoundVision Productions. Her work includes Science Literacy Project and The DNA Files, which has been honored with awards from the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Association for Women in Communications (the Clarion Award), the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and most recently the George Foster Peabody Award and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award. She was also Executive Producer of The Communications Revolution, a series of programs about telecommunications research and its impact on society. Scott was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT during the 2000–2001 school year as well as a fellowship in biomedical research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory’s science journalism program.
Loretta Williams, Producer/Writer/Managing Editor — Loretta started as a teenager at a community radio station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated to Boston University’s WBUR, and eventually moved to D.C. to work as a producer for NPR’s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Sunday. From 1992–1994, she was a producer-trainer for NPR’s National Desk News Training Unit where she taught advanced skills in story development, writing, and production to early career journalists, many of whom went on to become regular contributors to national, regional, and local public radio programs. Loretta’s most recent NPR tenure was on the arts desk, where she edited stories about film, books, and television. She was part of the original DNA Files team in 1998 and returned to SoundVision in 2006 to oversee the production of DNA Files III.
Gene Bryan Johnson, Producer/Writer/Managing Editor — Gene Bryan’s career has spanned public radio, educational media, and the Internet. He was Executive Producer of Interactive Motion Pictures for McGraw-Hill Higher Education, where he produced the Reel Society series of sociology-based learning tools, Executive Producer/Digital Content Editor at TheDeal.com, Senior Producer for News at WNYC/New York Public Radio, and contributing reporter to NPR News programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation.
A native New Yorker, GBJ has a master’s degree in cultural reporting from Columbia University, and a B.A. in humanities and creative writing from New York University.
Julie Caine, Associate Producer/Writer — Julie is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and radio producer whose experience includes reporting projects in Mexico, Costa Rica, Alaska, California, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and her native Kansas. Her radio work has been heard on Marketplace, PRI’s The World, and a variety of NPR affiliates. Her documentary film All the Way Home, about the psychological wounds of war, aired on PBS. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she came to the happy conclusion that radio is the most visual medium of them all.
John Rieger, Producer/Writer — John has appeared as host of Radio Smithsonian and been an editor of Beyond Computers and The Telecommunications Radio Project. He was a contributor to The DNA Files and helped found BEHINDtheBEAT.net, a new media company providing syndicated coverage of contemporary music and musicians on the World Wide Web.
Gary Covino, Editor – Gary has been a public radio producer, reporter, editor, and program creator for 30 years. He has concentrated on the production of in-depth stories and documentaries, often focusing on contentious political and social issues, international news, and profiles of unusual and controversial public figures. He has been a producer, director, editor, and reporter at National Public Radio and has worked as an independent producer, editor, and free-form radio personality. His programs have received numerous awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award, the World Hunger Media Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award.
Deb George, Editor — Deb is an independent producer, editor, and reporter. Her career has taken her to Asia, Africa, and South America, and she has covered the Rwandan genocide, the war in Sierra Leone, the politics of biotechnology, and the AIDS epidemic. She was with National Public Radio for fifteen years, as producer of Weekend Edition Sunday and an editor and producer on the national, foreign, and cultural desks. She also produced a number of special series for NPR’s newsmagazines and was the network’s first liaison for independent producers. George was also senior editor of American RadioWorks, producing documentaries and investigative reports. Her work has received numerous awards, including the DuPont-Columbia Gold and Silver Batons, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the Edward R. Murrow (RTNDA) Award, and the Casey Award for reporting on children.
Robin Wise, Technical Engineer and Music Director — Robin Wise’s credits include audio books for Simon and Schuster and radio documentaries for independent producers and clients such as SoundVision Productions, Hearing Voices, Musician’s Radio on XMPR, and Worlds of Difference. Robin’s multimedia production clients include Partners for Community Health, Mountain BizWorks in Asheville, North Carolina, and The Children’s Village of Sonoma County, California. She taught digital audio technology in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and provided audio training at SoundPrint, the United Nations, Marketplace, and AARP.
Adi Gevins, Research Director — Adi’s work has earned virtually every major award given for radio documentary production, including the American Bar Association Silver Gavel and the Peabody Award. Gevins produces documentaries, provides media project consulting services, and teaches courses and workshops for local and national organizations. She also helps organizations around the United States to archive broadcasts. Topics of her media projects range from neuroscience to American holidays, while her classes tackle writing, production, and research ethics and techniques. She holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.