Jay Allison – Producer/Editor
Jay Allison has been an independent public radio producer, journalist, and teacher for 25 years. His documentaries and features on NPR have won most major broadcasting awards, including three Peabodys. He has also worked in print for the New York Times and as a solo-crew reporter for ABC News Nightline and is a longtime proponent of building community through media and online. In collaboration with WGBH-Boston and Atlantic Public Media, he recently founded a new public radio service (WCAI and WNAN) for Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. More about Jay, more than you’d reasonably need to know, is available at www.jayallison.org

Samantha Broun – Project Manager/Editor
Samantha Broun is a latecomer to radio. For 15+ years, she worked with and around youth in urban schools and mentoring programs. In the fall of 2005, realizing she couldn’t fight the pull any longer, she attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine where she learned everything radio. She now happily lives in Woods Hole, MA and works with Atlantic Public Media.

Sydney Lewis – Editor
Sydney is the author of three oral histories, and for close to thirty years transcribed for and otherwise assisted oral history maestro Studs Terkel. She co-authored his memoir “Touch and Go.” She has edited award-winning radio essays for WBEZ radio in Chicago, and written for Chicago Tribune Magazine. Her only previous radio experience was in the eighties, as an administrative assistant in WFMT radio’s program department. In 2001, Sydney left Chicago for Southeastern, Massachusetts. After interviewing Studs Terkel for Transom, she visited the Atlantic Public Media staff. Something happened, and now radio has become her happy mid-life crisis.

Viki Merrick – Editor
Viki worked in Rome Italy for ABC News as a production coordinator and radio stringer moving on to freelance as location/production manager for film documentaries for North American venues. In 1994 she became Operations/Production manager at Fabrica, an international school of guerilla communications in film, video, audio and print. Returning to the US in 1996, she is currently a producer at Atlantic Public Media where she produces local commentaries, essays and slices of life for the new NPR stations for Cape Cod and the Islands, WCAI and WNAN. Viki lives in Woods Hole with her two kids Ben and Allegra.

Robert DeBenedictis – Web Wonk
Robert comes to Transom through the Public Radio Exchange where he helps out with assorted coding projects. For several years he was the co-chair of the Freedom To Marry Coalition where he developed web pages that made it easy for marriage equality supporters to contact their legislators. In addition to working with Transom and PRX, Robert serves on the board of Common Cause Massachusetts.

Jeff Towne – Tools Column
Jeff started in radio in the late 1970s at his high school’s 10-watt FM station, and continued in college at the University of Pennsylvania’s WXPN. For over 20 years, Jeff has been producing interviews for radio, at first with a Marantz cassette recorder and a four-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, and now on digital recorders and computer editing systems. In his more than ten years with Echoes (the nightly music program distributed on over 160 PRI affiliates where Jeff is co-producer, engineer and webmaster) he has done extensive remote recording of interviews and musical performances, produced short-form documentary-style features, and prepared shows for uplink on the public radio satellite system and web distribution.

Jared Benedict - Emeritus Web Director
Jared came to Transom through the Public Radio Exchange where he works on the technical aspects of numerous projects. His past includes building community driven web sites, primarly in the field of Higher Education. A typical day for Jared includes listening to four to six hours of spoken word audio from Public Radio and Podcasts.

Joshua Barlow - Emeritus Web Director
Joshua came to us from National Public Radio Online, where he produced for both news and cultural Web sites. Projects he helped create and produce include Changing Face of America, Election 2000, MLK Celebration 2001, and Lost & Found Sound, which won the 2000 Webby Award in the radio category. He served as NPR’s photo journalist for their coverage of Election 2000. In addition to his work for the Web and public broadcasting, Joshua has served the U.S. State Department in Croatia as a monitor for their 2000 presidential election, and is a freelance composer, who has written for dance, theater, film and, most recently, the Department of Homeland Security.

Barrett Golding - Emeritus Web Developer
Barrett is an audio/web producer. His shows run on NPR and PRI. He received the NFCB Silver Reel, the Scripps Howard Award for Journalism Excellence, the ABA Gavel Award, Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence, and grants from CPB, NEA, Rockefeller and Andy Warhol Foundations. He produced for Peabody and duPont-Columbia Silver Baton award-winning projects. He was an NPR Audio Engineer, and General Manager of KGLT-Bozeman. His sites and scripts at DreamWave and HearingVoices have been featured by Yahoo! Pick of the Year, USA Today HotSites, and Japan OnLine. PressRecord houses his works and bio.

Josef Verbanac – Emeritus Web Developer
Joseph is a Composition & Technical Writing Instructor at Montana State University and announcer with KGLT-FM in Bozeman, Montana. He’s collaborated with Barrett on DreamWave, KGLT’s web presence, and upcoming Hearing Voices projects. He also handles the care and feeding of the MSU English Dept.’s website.