Nancy Updike
{{short description|American radio producer and writer}}
Nancy Updike is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on radio programs including This American Life and All Things Considered,{{cite web |title=A Businessman's Life in Gaza |url=http://m.npr.org/story/5160047 |website=NPR.org |date=24 March 2006 |access-date=18 April 2019 |language=en}} and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, LA Weekly, The Boston Globe, and Salon.com. She graduated from Amherst College in 1991.
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Personal life
Updike is married to Dan Ephron,{{cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/11/05/ira-glass-nancy-updike-dan-ephron-why-assassination-yitzhak-rabin-still|title=LIVE from NYPL: Why the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Still Divides Israelis 20 Years Later}}{{cite web|url=https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/n8h7ajo/46-dan|title=Heavyweight Podcast- Episode 46: Dan}} an editor at Foreign Policy.{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/author/dan-ephron/|title=Dan Ephron|website=Foreign Policy}} They had their first date on July 1, 2003 at Focaccia Bar,{{cite web|url=https://bar.focaccia.co/|title=Focaccia Bar}} an Italian restaurant in Jerusalem.
Career
=''This American Life''=
Updike won a Peabody Award in 1996 for her work as a producer on This American Life.{{cite web|title=The Peabody Awards {{!}} An International Competition for Electronic Media, honoring achievement in Television, Radio, Cable and the Web – Administered by University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication|url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_1990s.php|work=WINNERS - 1990'S|publisher=The Peabody Awards|access-date=6 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031043036/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_1990s.php|archive-date=31 October 2011}} She won the Edward R. Murrow Award for news documentary (2005),{{citation needed|date=April 2019}} and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award for the episode of This American Life about private contractors in Iraq titled "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help."{{cite web |title=I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help {{!}} This American Life |url=https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/this-american-life/im-from-the-private-sector-and-im-here-to-help |website=KCRW |access-date=18 April 2019 |language=en |date=30 July 2006}}{{cite web |title=266: I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help |url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/266/transcript |website=This American Life |access-date=18 April 2019 |date=14 December 2017}}
=''Serial''=
Updike is a producer and co-creator of the true crime podcast Serial. Early in production, the creative team found the story falling flat and Updike is credited with asking, "Where's the hunt?," which transformed Sarah Koenig, the show's narrator, into the show's protagonist.{{cite journal |last1=Sternbergh |first1=Adam |title=How Podcasts Learned to Speak |journal=Vulture |date=18 March 2019 |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/the-great-podcast-rush.html |access-date=18 April 2019}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/archive?contributor=9094 This American Life archive], Updike's segments on the show
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