john rieger

director and sole proprietor

About

I began my career at the pioneering community radio station KPFA in Berkeley, where I showed up with my freshly minted philosophy degree to answer phones for the revolution. Since then my work has ranged widely, from journalism to sound art to multimedia. I have appeared as host of NPR’s "Weekend All Things Considered" and the Smithsonian Institution's "Radio Smithsonian," I have reported from Thailand and Peru, and in 1990 I performed in English and Russian at the First Moscow International Festival of Contemporary Art. In 1996 I helped create Beyond Computers, where I was a contributing editor for several years. I am a founding partner of BEHINDtheBEAT.net, an online music magazine, and a voting member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (The Webby Awards), I live and work in Berkeley, where I have a small recording studio. I am a writer, editor and media producer for The Asia Foundation, an international development NGO, and host and producer of The Berkeleyside Podcast, a regular video podcast for Berkeley's independent news and information website.

Country

united states

City

san francisco

Industry

media production

Skill

editorial, editing, journalism, radio, news writing, sound, copy editing, storytelling, writing, copywriting, broadcast, video, teaching, multimedia, audio engineering, creative writing

Experience

producer

american communications foundation

1995-1 - 2006-1 · 11 yrs 1 mo

Wrote and produced nearly 200 radio features for The Osgood File on CBS Radio (weekly audience 12 million) and other major media outlets on topics in science, the environment, religion and the arts.

co-founder and executive editor

behindthebeat.net

2000-1 - 2001-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

BEHINDtheBEAT.net, "The Voice of the Artist," created original audio profiles of current recording artists for syndication to music websites.

managing editor and on-air director

beyond computers

1996-1 - 2000-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Wrote and produced the pilot, managed reporters and commentators, and produced a weekly six-to-ten-minute feature for this hour-long public radio magazine about computers, culture and society, distributed by Public Radio International.

freelancer

marketplace productions

1990-1 - 1990-1 · 1 mo

production director

kpfa-fm

1979-1 - 1980-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

At this pioneering community radio station, I managed broadcast, studio and remote recording operations, and trained and supervised the largely volunteer production staff.

feature editor and on-air director

telecommunications radio project

1992-1 - 1994-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

The Communications Revolution" was a live radio series examining political and social issues in the emerging information technologies. Broadcast nationwide. Funded by the Telecommunications Education Trust, established by the California Public Utilities Commission.

radio production instructor

national radio training project

1982-1 - 1987-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

This project of Western Public Radio brought select groups of public radio professionals from around the country to San Francisco or facilities elsewhere in the U.S. for comprehensive, week-long workshops. I was a regular instructor, teaching multiple classes on field recording, studio techniques and radio writing at more than a dozen workshops.

senior producer and principal researcher

soundvision productions

2001-1 - 2009-1 · 8 yrs 1 mo

Senior Producer, Grant Writer and Principal Researcher for the public radio series "The Really Big Questions—Science and the Search for Meaning in the 21st Century," a project of SoundVision Productions, funded by the NSF and the NEH.

director and sole proprietor

riegerworld media

1996-1 - Present · 30 yrs 9 mos

* I offer creative and technical consulting, writing, editorial, field and studio recording, and production services for radio and multimedia projects of all kinds. If you've got an idea, we can develop it * if you've got a mess, we can clean it up * and my studio is a nice place to record top quality interviews and voice tracks in a Berkeley garden setting.