Resume

• 2000

  Jim

  O'Grady

  New York University

  New York University

  Best Podcast about the U.S. Presidential Race

  Lead contributor to the winning episode

  \"White Like Me

  \" part of WNYC Studios' podcast

  \"The United States of Anxiety - Season 2\": \n\nhttps://bit.ly/2V6ahf0

  New York Press Club

  Best Writing

  Award for radio and online obit

  \"Ed Koch

  Former Mayor and Bellicose Voice of New York.\" \n\nhttps://bit.ly/2Sb07Yz

  Edward R. Murrow Award

  Best Use of Sound

  Combined music

  archival tape

  new interviews with key players

  and other sound design elements to tell the story of the horrific attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by officers of the NYPD. WNYC aired the story on the 20th anniversary of the event. The goal was to educate people who'd only vaguely heard of Louima or forgotten most of the details of the case

  and to trace its influence on police-community relations in the city. \n\nhttps://bit.ly/2TVjSVT

  Associated Press

  Best Radio or Audio Reporting

  \n\nhttps://www.wnyc.org/story/nyc-acknowledge-its-slave-market-more-50-years/

  The Deadline Club

  General Excellence of Individual Reporting

  Award for Best Radio Reporter in New York State.

  Associated Press

  Best News Series

  “Who’s Buying New York?” An investigative series about the vast sums of money washing through the city's real estate industry and how it makes life more expensive for almost everyone. \n\nMy story: How a NYC Non-Profit Did a $26.5 Million Real Estate Deal Without Selling Its Building\n\nhttps://bit.ly/2V6ahf0

  Associated Press

  Best Feature Story

  Told the story of the Battle of Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War by going on walking tours and battle re-enactments and recording participants in the first person. (When I asked the re-enactor playing George Washington

  \"How's the battle going right now?\"

  he replied

  \"Not well!\") Combined those interviews with music

  SFX

  and archival tape to create a retelling that

  at times

  feels less like history than a vivid event unfolding report from the field. \n\nhttps://bit.ly/2EiGQ3Y

  The New York Press Club

  Best Podcast Episode

  Lead reporter on \"There Goes the Neighborhood

  \" the WNYC Studios podcast about gentrification. I was also the main contributor to the winning episode

  \"Mouth to Ear\": \n\nhttps://bit.ly/2EhLCOX

  PRNDI - Public Radio News Directors Incorporated

  Best Writing

  Award for radio and online feature: \"Guts! Glory! Fakery! Why Football Loves the Pregame Speech\"\n\nhttps://bit.ly/2NeY84x

  PRNDI - Public Radio News Directors Incorporated

  Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award

  Mychal Judge was a gay priest who died heroically on 9/11 after serving the marginalized of New York for many years. What an honor to win and award named for him. The award recognized a 7-part series about city immigrants bragging on their home country’s team in the run-up to the 2018 Men’s World Cup. (The U.S. had washed out so Americans needed someone else to root for.) Listeners heard exuberant voices from Iceland

  England

  Ivory Coast

  Belgium

  Mexico

  Senegal

  Italy

  France

  Brazil

  Argentina

  Australia

  Germany

  and Egypt. My favorite was the singing

  clapping Papa Tall

  featured below. \n\nhttps://www.wnyc.org/story/all-in-for-senegal-world-cup/

  New York Press Club

  Best Radio or Audio Reporting

  Award for seven stories about the aftermath of Storm Sandy

  including a Staten Island resident who barely escaped with his life

  and whose neighbor did not. \n\nhttps://bit.ly/2Il5B3e

  The Deadline Club

  Fordham University

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  English Language and Literature/Letters

• 1999

  The New York Times

  WNYC Radio

  Center for an Urban Future

  Center for an Urban Future

  WNYC Radio

  160 Varick Street

  http://www.wnyc.org/people/jim-ogrady/

  Reporter / producer / editor / host

  The New York Times

• The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling

  The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art & craft of storytelling. It has presented true & first person stories worldwide.

  The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling

  Alex Rodriguez Retires After 13 Years With The Yankees

  Alex Rodriguez is retiring from the Yankees after 13 years with the team. At his last game on Friday

  A-Rod will hardly get the same farewell as former Yankee and all-around good guy Derek Jeter. Rodriguez was a prodigy and a power hitter

  but left...

  Alex Rodriguez Retires After 13 Years With The Yankees

  Songs of Themselves

  There are eight million stories in the naked city. Some take theirs to the stage in competitive story “slams.”

  The NY Times - Songs of Themselves

  Jim O'Grady

  'GrandSlam' Storyteller

  Jim O'Grady at the New York City MOTH StorySLAM.

  Jim O'Grady

  'GrandSlam' Storyteller

  Anxiety and Loathing in the American Suburbs

  Current election polls say that the biggest demographic supporting Donald Trump is non-college educated white men.

  Anxiety and Loathing in the American Suburbs

  WHITMAN DEMOLISHED?

  Walt Whitman’s poetry has stood the test of time. Now

  the home where he finished one of his great works

  “Leaves of Grass

  ” may soon face a wrecking ball.

  Thirteen - Whitman Demolished?

  There Go The Neighbor Hoods - This American Life

  In the midst of a real estate dispute

  Jim O'Grady becomes the target of an unusual neighborhood watch group.

  This American Life - There Go The Neighbor Hoods

  Secrets of Penn Station

  WNYC's Jim O'Grady pokes around Penn Station in search of grace notes to make it more bearable for travelers passing through it. He finds the station's one w...

  Secrets of Penn Station

  People - Jim O'Grady | WNYC | New York Public Radio

  Podcasts

  Live Streaming Radio

  News

  WNYC is America's most listened-to public radio station and the producer of award-winning programs and podcasts like Radiolab

  On the Media

  and The Brian Lehrer Show.

  WNYC - Jim O'Grady - New York Public Radio

  Podcasts

  Live Streaming Radio

  News

  American Icons: “Fiddler on the Roof”

  How a milkman from a Russian shtetl became a Broadway star and a hero of postwar American culture.

  American Icons: “Fiddler on the Roof”

  News Writing

  Social Media

  Speech Writing

  New Media

  Investigative Reporting

  Journalism

  Research

  Editorial

  Breaking News

  Media Relations

  Public Speaking

  Editing

  Online Journalism

  Storytelling

  Radio

  Public Policy

  Magazines

  Blogging

  Press Releases

  Copy Editing

  Songs of Themselves

  This essay about getting started in live storytelling at The Moth is one of the most popular of the hundreds of pieces I wrote for The Times in my years as a reporter-on-retainer. \n\nMy stories appeared in almost every section of the paper

  but mostly in the beloved City Section

  which was devoted to New York neighborhood news. \n\nThe paper's partial list of my work is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/nyregion/thecity/16moth.html

  Songs of Themselves

  Book review of the collected letters of Daniel and Philip Berrigan -- the mystery of their persistence within a decades-long relationship marked by brotherly love

  political collaboration and

  in one instance

  betrayal.

  The passionate lives of Dan and Phil Berrigan

  Reflection on the life of the activist priest

  beginning with his childhood on a farm in The Great Depression

  which included an episode with a plow horse that

  like Berrigan

  refused to give in.

  Remembering Daniel Berrigan : 1921–2016

  The Radical Faith of Philip Berrigan

  Obit that takes stock of the life one of America's most controversial priests.

  ‘Apologies

  Good Friends

  for the Fracture of Good Order’

  The definitive biography of Daniel and Philip Berrigan

  Catholic priests and anti-war activists. \n\nhttps://bit.ly/2VZt3p0

  Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan