Emanuele Berry
{{short description|American writer and journalist}}
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Emanuele Berry is an American writer, radio producer and journalist. She is the Executive Editor at This American Life and previously worked as a producer and editor at Gimlet Media.{{Cite web|url=https://thisamericanlife.org/about/announcements/emanuele-berry-executive-editor/|title=This American Life Promotes Emanuele Berry to Executive Editor|website=This American Life|date=2 October 2020|access-date=2021-07-05}}{{cite news
| last = Quah
| first = Nicholas
| date = 2020-08-06
| title = How a Podcast Paused a Murder Trial
| url = https://www.vulture.com/2020/10/teachers-pet-podcast-murder-trial.html
|website =Vulture
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}}
Career
Berry joined This American Life in 2019 as a producer and editor where she reported and co-produced episodes, including the 2020 protests in Hong Kong.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/686/umbrellas-up/|title=Umbrellas-Up|website=thisamericanlife.org|date=11 October 2019|access-date=2021-07-05}} She was promoted to the role of Executive Editor - a role she has held since October 2020
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| title = This American Life Promotes Emanuele Berry to Executive Editor
| url = https://thisamericanlife.org/about/announcements/emanuele-berry-executive-editor/
|website = This American Life
| date = 2020-10-02
| access-date = 2021-07-05
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Berry is considered the only staff member to date to have broken reality TV news in her reporting for the show.{{cite news
| last = Morin
| first = Alyssa
| date = 2019-08-19
| title = Why Colton Underwood Wasn't Always Truthful About His Top Bachelor Picks During the Show
| url = https://www.eonline.com/news/1065887/why-colton-underwood-wasn-t-always-truthful-about-his-top-bachelor-picks-during-the-show
|website = E!
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}}
In March 2021, She provided editorial assistance to The Improvement Association podcast at The New York Times.{{cite news
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| title = Introducing The Improvement Association Podcast
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/podcasts/election-fraud-improvement-association.html
|website = The New York Times
| date = 2021-03-30
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}} Berry has also been named as one of the guest lecturers for the new Sony back podcast media Neon Hum's diverse training bootcamp
| last = White
| first = Peter
| date = 2020-12-21
| title = Sony Podcast Neon Hum Diverse Training Bootcamp Editors
| url = https://deadline.com/2020/12/sony-podcast-neon-hum-media-diverse-training-bootcamp-editors-1234660077/
|website = Deadline
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}}
Before This American Life, Berry was an editor and producer at Gimlet Media, where she ran and worked on several shows including The Nod (podcast), Undone (podcast), and StartUp (podcast). In 2014, she was a producer at WKAR Public Radio in Michigan{{cite news
| last = Linstroth
| first = Joe
| date = 2014-08-25
| title = Former WKAR producer updates Ferguson aftermath
| url = https://www.wkar.org/post/former-wkar-producer-updates-ferguson-aftermath#stream/0
|website = WKAR.org
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}}
and later moved to St. Louis Public Radio as race and culture reporter where she covered the Ferguson protests{{cite news
| last = Pratt
| first = Wayne
| date = 2014-12-31
| title = Newcomers Reflect On Their First Months In St. Louis
| url = https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2014-12-31/newcomers-reflect-on-their-first-months-in-st-louis
|website = St. Louis Public Radio
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}}
| author =
| title = Chat Recap: Justice Department's Ferguson Policing Report
| url = https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/03/06/391223970/ask-me-anything-justice-departments-ferguson-policing-report
|website = National Public Radio
| date = 2015-03-06
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}}
She co-founded and hosted the St. Louis Public Radio podcast We Live Here
| last = Hemphill
| first = Evie
| date = 2018-03-19
| title = 'An impossible human being': St. Louis native Josephine Baker and her quest for a racial utopia
| url = https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2018-03-19/an-impossible-human-being-st-louis-native-josephine-baker-and-her-quest-for-a-racial-utopia
|website = St. Louis Public Radio
| access-date = 2021-07-05
In 2015, Berry was a Fulbright recipient of an English Teaching Assistantship to Macau{{Cite web|url=https://us.fulbrightonline.org/alumni/grantee-directory?name=Emanuele+Berry&sort= |title=Fulbright Grantee Directory|website=us.fulbrightonline.org|access-date=2021-07-05}}{{cite news
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| title = A farewell to St. Louis Public Radio's Emanuele Berry
| url = https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2015-07-27/a-farewell-to-st-louis-public-radios-emanuele-berry
|website = St. Louis Public Radio
| date = 2015-07-27
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}} and a 2014 AIR New Voices Scholar.{{cite news
| author =
| title = Announcing AIR's 2019 New Voices Scholars
| url = https://airmedia.org/community/spotlight/announcing-airs-2019-new-voices-scholars
|website = AIR media
| date = 2019-07-29
| access-date = 2021-07-05
}}
Her work has been recognized by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.{{Cite web|url=http://hearstawards.org/hearst-radio-and-television-champ-finalists-named|title=Hearst Radio and Television Championship Finalists Named| website=hearstawards.org|date=20 May 2013|access-date=2021-07-05}}
Education
Berry attended Michigan State University and graduated in 2012 with a B.A in journalism with an additional major in the Residential College of Arts and Humanities. Before Michigan State University, she attended Lansing Eastern High School where she was a four-year starter, and Captain of the Varsity basketball team{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/a/ladyquakers.com/www/awards|title=Awards - All CAAC Team 2007-08, Blue Division|website=www.ladyquakers.com|access-date=2021-07-05}} and Albion College (2008 - 2009) in Michigan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuele-berry-6505b31b/|title= Emanuele Berry|website=LinkedIn|access-date=2021-07-05}}
Berry was born and raised in Michigan to Black father - Bobby Berry and a white mother - Eileen.{{Cite web|url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/2015-08-23/what-it-means-to-be-multi-racial|title=what it means to be multi racial|website=news.stlpublicradio.org|access-date=2021-07-05}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/677/seeing-yourself-in-the-wild/act-two-6/|title= Seeing Yourself In The Wild|website=www.thisamericanlife.org|date= 15 June 2019|access-date=2021-07-05}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/about/announcements/emanuele-berry-executive-editor] This American Life
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