Executive Producer, The New Yorker Radio Hour
Studio 360David Krasnow is the senior editor of PRI's Studio 360.
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.
A look back at the early days of the seminal band.
Who creates fictional languages and who bothers to learn them?
Creativity is almost always associated with the arts, but Gary Marcus tells us how creativity takes on different forms in all aspects of life.
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?
The author was at the end of her summer break when Hurricane Katrina struck her hometown of Delisle, Mississippi.
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?
In his novel “The Flame Alphabet,” Ben Marcus imagines what would happen if children’s speech made their parents sick.
We’ve been living with computer viruses since the earliest networks. But how similar are they to biological ones?
Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” was one of the first dystopian YA novels — and one of the most banned.
The movie “whiteonwhite” has human actors, director, and crew. But its editor is an algorithm that creates a different version of the film each time it plays.
Creative types tend to think computers will never take their jobs. They haven’t met Brutus.