David Krasnow
Executive Producer, The New Yorker Radio Hour
David began producing stories for Studio 360 in 2001 with a profile of experimental musician Pauline Oliveros. He joined the staff in 2003 after many years in print media as an editor and writer, covering music, design, American history, land use, science, and health care.
Formerly the reviews editor of Artforum, he has written for the Village Voice, Jazz Times, Metropolis, The New York Observer, and The Wire, and remains a contributing editor for Bomb. He teaches radio writing to print journalists at Mediabistro and has discussed how to pitch features at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the Public Radio Program Directors conference.
Among his stories for Studio 360 are features on Andy Warhol’s soup cans, the folk ballad “John Henry,” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner” for the American Icons series. He was first on air at 17 on his college station, WESU.
Recent Stories
Music
Studio 360
October 01, 2019
A look back at the early days of the seminal band.
Arts
Studio 360
April 05, 2018
How the U.S. poet laureate found inspiration in the sci-fi visions of David Bowie.
Arts
Studio 360
April 05, 2018
Tracy K. Smith announces the winner of our listener poetry challenge: poems inspired by pop stars.
Arts
Studio 360
January 18, 2018
Who creates fictional languages and who bothers to learn them?
Arts
Studio 360
December 14, 2017
Creativity is almost always associated with the arts, but Gary Marcus tells us how creativity takes on different forms in all aspects of life.
Arts
Studio 360
December 14, 2017
Musicians are famous for their wild and often intoxicated lifestyles, but does a lack of inhibition in the brain actually make you a better musician?
Arts
Studio 360
November 09, 2017
The author was at the end of her summer break when Hurricane Katrina struck her hometown of Delisle, Mississippi.
Arts, Culture & Media
Studio 360
October 13, 2016
Musicians are famous for their wild and often intoxicated lifestyles, but does a lack of inhibition in the brain actually make you a better musician?
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