About the Editors
Jay Allison, the host and curator of “This I Believe,” is an independent broadcast journalist. His work appears often on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition” and PRI’s “This American Life,” and has earned him five Peabody Awards. His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and other publications. He is co-creator of Transom.org, which gives people the tools to tell their own stories, and of the Public Radio Exchange (prx.org), which helps get those stories on the air. Allison is the founder of the public radio stations that serve Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod, where he lives.
Dan Gediman is the executive producer of “This I Believe.” His work has been heard on “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “Fresh Air,” “Marketplace,” “Soundprint,”” Jazz Profiles” and “This American Life.” During his twenty-year radio career, Gediman has won many of public broadcasting’s most prestigious awards for programs such as “Breaking the Cycle: How “Do We Stop Child Abuse,” and “I Just Am Who We Are: A Portrait of Multiple Personality Disorder.” He also worked with legendary radio playwright Norman Corwin to produce “13 by Corwin” and “50 Years after 14 August,” which won the duPont-Columbia Award.
Allison and Gediman, 2006, “This I Believe,” Picador Publishing Company, New York, p. 282.