Ellen Horne is the Executive Producer of Radiolab.

“When you’re trying to create something new, that kind of risk-taking has to happen in a low-stakes environment.”

Eric Mennel is a producer for WUNC and Criminal.

"People pooh-pooh the idea of logging like it’s the worst thing in the world. Some of the best techniques I’ve learned, in terms of interviewing, was from logging good interviewer's tape. ... Listening to Alex Kotlowitz conduct an interview was like it’s own class on how to make radio."

Sean Cole, a producer at This American Life, has also reported for Radiolab, Marketplace, and 99% Invisible.

"Journalism is a translation of madness, and poetry is a transcription of madness."

Stan Alcorn, a freelance multimedia journalist, is a contributor to WNYC and NPR.

“I love stories but I’m very interested in how they pertain to some larger truth that you’re not going to know without quantifying it.”

Jennifer Brandel is the Senior Producer of Curious City.

"I don't think that soft or fluffy news should be given such a bad rap. When you have a question that ignites someone's curiosity and gets them interested in thinking about the world in a different way or considering things they haven't done before, that is important. If you can accomplish that in your stories, they're not fluffy — they're interesting."

Ben Calhoun is a producer at This American Life.

"The nature of covering politics is one where often people don’t want to say to you the things that they are feeling or thinking. ... You can create the diorama of that action in a way that you couldn’t if you weren’t willing to make them a character — founded on things that they said and beliefs that you know they have — than they’ve done for you on tape."