Jonathan Kern

Jonathan Kern is a journalist, teacher and author, with more than thirty years experience in the radio news business. Starting as an intern at the Voice of America in 1978, he worked as a producer, reporter, program host, editor, manager and board operator. In 1995, he joined National Public Radio as the Senior Editor of All Things Considered. He was also ATC's Executive Producer from September 11th, 2001 until September 2002, and shared in the NPR News Division's Peabody Award and duPont-Columbia Award for coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks. He went on to create NPR's News Training Unit, which developed and ran classes on writing, editing, production, and delivery for NPR staff, and - through regional workshops and fly-ins - for public radio journalists around the country. Kern's book Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production was published in 2008 and is used today at universities across the U.S.