Alex Chadwick | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | All Things Considered Day to Day Weekend Edition |
| Spouse | Carolyn Jensen |
Alex Chadwick is an American journalist best known for his work onNational Public Radio, and as a former co-host of the radionewsmagazineDay to Day.[1] He was a part of the development of NPR'sMorning Edition in the 1970s and was an on-air personality onAll Things Considered andWeekend Edition. Chadwick has also worked withABC andCBS.
This American Life hostIra Glass has written often about Chadwick's influence on his work. In a 2000 commencement speech to theUC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Glass said, "I went through a very early phase that lasted about half a year. Whenever I would get into any kind of trouble in writing about some moment, some scene, how do you get into the story, how do you end the story, there was this NPR reporter who I adored, who I thought was just the most amazing writer. He is a really wonderful writer, named Alex Chadwick. And I would simply decide I am going to write this story as Alex Chadwick. And I would sit there and try to completely write this thing in this guy’s voice, totally do it as him, literally write this story as this man who was not myself. I have to say I created some very nice scripts like that."[2]
In January 2009, NPR laid off Chadwick. He was one of 67 employees terminated after a budget shortfall attributed to a drop in corporateunderwriting during the2008 financial crisis.[3]
Chadwick continues to do a video blog forSlate V called "Interviews, 50 cents."[4]
Chadwick received theSigma Delta Chi Award forinvestigative journalism and two Lowell Thomas Awards from theOverseas Press Club for foreign reporting, and was part of theCBS News team that produced theEmmy Award- andPeabody Award-winning documentaryIn the Killing Fields of America.
Chadwick was married toRadio Expeditionsexecutive producerCarolyn Jensen, who died in 2010.
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