Dan Gediman

{{short description|American radio producer}}

Dan Gediman is an American radio producer and performing songwriter. He is the executive producer of the public radio series This I Believe{{cite web |url=http://www.thisibelieve.org/ |title=Home |website=thisibelieve.org}} and co-editor, with Jay Allison, of the books This I Believe and This I Believe II: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women.{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/search?keyword=dan+gediman&bisac_heading=combined&order=relevance|title=Search}} He is also the co-editor, with John Gregory and Mary Jo Gediman, of the books This I Believe: On Love, This I Believe: On Fatherhood, This I Believe: On Motherhood, and This I Believe: Life Lessons,{{Cite web|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-302475.html?query=Dan+Gediman|title = Wiley: Search Results}} as well as Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe,{{Cite book|title=Edward R. Murrow's This I believe: selections from the 1950s radio series|last1=Gediman|first1=Dan|last2=Gregory|first2=John|last3=Gediman|first3=Mary Jo|last4=Merrick|first4=Viki|date=2010|publisher=This I Believe Inc.|isbn=978-1419680403|location=Louisville, KY|language=English|oclc = 639072802}} This I Believe: Kentucky,{{Cite web|url=https://www.butlerbooks.com/thisibelieve.html|title=Butler Book Publishing Services, Inc.|website=Butler Books|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-27}} and This I Believe: Philadelphia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467118972|title=This I Believe: Philadelphia|website=Arcadiapublishing.com|access-date=October 27, 2017}} He has also edited a new edition of Will Thomas's memoir The Seeking.{{Cite web|url=http://www.upne.com/1555538279.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620073849/http://www.upne.com/1555538279.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 20, 2015|title=UPNEBookPartners - The Seeking: Will Thomas|website=www.upne.com|access-date=2017-10-27}}

Gediman's public radio work has been featured on programs such as This American Life,{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/search?keys=dan%20gediman|title=Results {{!}} This American Life|website=www.thisamericanlife.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-27}} All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Jazz Profiles.{{Cite web|url=http://news.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/calloway.html|title=NPR's Jazz Profiles: Cab Calloway|last=Murph|first=John|website=www.npr.org|access-date=2021-06-16}} His public radio specials include Little Secrets: Child Sexual Abuse in America,{{Citation|title=Little secrets: child sexual abuse in America.|date=1992|publisher=[American Public Radio] ; Duplicated by Sound Ideas|language=English|oclc=81303192}} and Breaking the Cycle: How Do We Stop Child Abuse {{Citation|title=Breaking the cycle: how do we stop child abuse?|date=1994|publisher=Milestone Productions : Radio Store [distributor]|language=English|oclc=30761415}} with Jay Allison. Gediman co-produced the DuPont-Columbia Award-winning{{Cite web|url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/dupont|title=The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards {{!}} School of Journalism|website=journalism.columbia.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-10-27|archive-date=2017-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222172935/https://journalism.columbia.edu/dupont|url-status=dead}} 50 Years After 14 August, a reflection on the end of World War II, with legendary radio playwright Norman Corwin and Mary Beth Kirchner.{{Citation|title=Norman Corwin's 50 years after 14 August|date=1995|publisher=[publisher not identified]|language=English|oclc=37687381}} In 2017, he produced for Audible Originals the documentary series The Home Front: Life in America During World War Two, narrated by Martin Sheen.{{Cite book|url=https://www.audible.com/pd/Radio-TV/The-Home-Front-Life-in-America-During-World-War-II-Audiobook/B074P6DB68|title=The Home Front: Life in America During World War II|language=en-US}}