Jay Allison | |
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 Allison at the 2006 Texas Book Festival | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
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Jay Allison is an American independent public radio producer and broadcast journalist. He produces The Moth Radio Hour. His many documentaries and features have been featured on radio programs such as This American Life, as well as National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and Morning Edition. Allison is the executive director of Atlantic Public Media, which founded the public radio station WCAI in Woods Hole. With APM, he also created Transom.org and co-founded the Public Radio Exchange PRX, and was the Curator and Co-producer of This I Believe, "Lost and Found Sound", and the Sonic Memorial Project.
He has received six Peabody Awards and the duPont-Columbia Award. He was the 1996 recipient of the CPB's Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding contributions to public radio,[1] the only independent producer to have received it.
Allison and Dan Gediman collected some of the best essays from the This I Believe series and published them in the books This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (ISBN 978-0-8050-8658-4) and This I Believe II (ISBN 978-0-8050-8768-0). In the 90's Allison produced one-man-crew specials for ABC News Nightline, and wrote essays for the New York Times Magazine.
