Press Room
American RadioWorks Press Room provides information and resources to media professionals. On this page, you will find:
Media contacts
Program overview
Press releases
Host and staff bios
Host photos
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We encourage you to contact us with questions or comments about the program. American RadioWorks is produced and distributed by American Public Media.
Members of the media should contact:
Brad Robideau, National Publicity Manager
480 Cedar Street
Saint Paul, MN USA 55101
Phone: 651-290-1113
Fax: 651-222-7794
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Program Overview
American RadioWorks (ARW) is the highly acclaimed documentary unit of American Public Media. Its hour-long specials provide in-depth reporting on public affairs, social and cultural subjects and the 20th-century experience.
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PRESS RELEASES
American Public Media Awarded Prestigious George Polk Award for Radio Reporting (St. Paul, Minn.) February 23, 2007
American RadioWorks Exposes Nation’s Capital as "Imperial Washington" (St. Paul, Minn.) January 4, 2007
American Public Media's American RadioWorks Uncovers the Impact of Global Warming Right Now (St. Paul, Minn.) November 7, 2006
American Public Media Responds to Audience Needs by Offering More National Programs as Podcasts (St. Paul, Minn.) October 18, 2006
American Public Media's American RadioWorks Explores Japan's Pop Power (St. Paul, Minn.) October 5, 2006
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STAFF BIOS
Stephen Smith, Executive Editor, Correspondent
Stephen Smith reports on a wide range of international and domestic issues, including human rights, science and health, race relations and American history. He is co-creator of American RadioWorks, the largest documentary unit in public radio, as well as winner of the duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton and many other national journalism awards. Smith is a graduate of Macalester College and holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago.
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Michael Montgomery, Correspondent
Michael Montgomery joined American RadioWorks as a correspondent in July of 1999. Prior to that, he was an associate producer at CBS Reports and 60 Minutes, where he covered national and international stories. From 1989 to 1995, he was a Balkans correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, covering the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the break up of Yugoslavia. He reported extensively on the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, including the siege of Sarajevo. He also covered the region as a freelance reporter for both Time magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Montgomery was a Fulbright scholar in Belgrade from 1987 to 1989, and the recipient of an Alfred E. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton and Overseas Press Club Award.
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Sasha Aslanian, Coordinating Producer
Sasha Aslanian joined American RadioWorks in 2000 after spending eight years producing daily news programs for Minnesota Public Radio. She has won two Gracies from the American Women in Radio and Television Foundation and a Heywood Braun award. In 1995, She was a fellow with the French-American Foundation, working for Radio-Television Luxembourg in Paris. Aslanian is a graduate of Grinnell College.
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Chris Farrell, Economics Correspondent
Chris Farrell is Economics Editor for American Public Media's Marketplace Money and Marketplace Morning Report. Farrell is also a contributing economics editor at Business Week magazine, where he was previously economics editor and, before that, corporate
finance editor. Farrell was host of public television's Right On The Money and prior to that, finance editor at Business Times on ESPN and was heard on Business Times Radio. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics
and Stanford University.
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Ellen Guettler, Associate Producer
Ellen Guettler started
with American RadioWorks as an intern in 2002. She went on to produce news programming
with National Public Radio and the Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer before returning
to ARW in 2003. Guettler has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies
and Geography from Middlebury College.
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Steve Schapiro, Contributing Photographer
Steve Schapiro worked extensively for Life, Look, Time, and Newsweek in the 1960s, covering
that turbulent decade and shooting stories on the social and cultural climate
of America. Shapiro's photos have appeared on the covers of many of the world's
leading magazines. Schapiro's new book, American Edge, documents the spirit
of the 1960s. Schapiro is a graduate of Amherst and Bard Colleges.
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Catherine Winter, Editor/Producer
Editor/Producer Catherine Winter began working for Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media in 1987 as legal affairs correspondent. She later produced features on rural issues for MPR's Mainstreet Radio team. She is the recipient of numerous national awards for her work, including two Silver Gavel awards from the American Bar Association and the Unity Award for reporting on issues affecting minorities and disabled persons. She taught writing and journalism at the University of Minnesota Duluth from 1999-2004. Winter holds a master's degree in English and linguistics from UMD and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Mary Beth Kirchner, Producer
Mary Beth Kirchner is an independent radio producer and national programming consultant in Los Angeles. With an extensive track record in public broadcasting, she has been honored with multiple national and international awards including a 1997 duPont Columbia Award and three Gold Medals from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for her documentaries and music series. Ms. Kirchner started her own production company in 1993 after having served as National Programming Director for radio at WETA, Washington, DC. Prior to that, she was Executive Producer for radio at the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Telecommunications. Kirchner is currently the Executive Producer of American Routes, a weekly two-hour contemporary music series based in New Orleans. She has also collaborated with the legendary radio dramatist Norman Corwin for the last decade, and in recent years has produced more than half-a-dozen Friday night specials for ABC News Nightline with correspondent Robert Krulwich.
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