Chana Joffe-Walt

Chana Joffe-Walt is a radio journalist and producer. She has worked for Planet Money and This American Life.

Chana Joffe-Walt
OccupationRadio producer
EmployerThis American Life
Awards2016 Peabody Award winner

Early Life

Joffe-Walt's parents are South African. [1]

Career

Joffe-Walt began her radio career volunteering for a community radio station outside Seattle, KBCS. She was later a reporter for the Settle radio station KPLU and a freelancer for NPR before being recruited to work for Planet Money. [2] She then became a producer for This American Life.

In 2020, Nice White Parents, a five-part podcast released by the New York Times and produced in part by Joffe-Walt was published.[3]

Awards

In 2016, Joffe-Walt, along with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ira Glass, won a Peabody Award for an episode of This American Life on school segregation and education. [4]

References
  1. Joffe-Walt, Chana (May 20, 2009). "It's Spelled C-H-A-N-A". Planet Money. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  2. Joffe-Walt, Chana (May 20, 2009). "It's Spelled C-H-A-N-A". Planet Money. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  3. "Introducing Nice White Parents". The New York Times. July 23, 2020.
  4. "The Case for School Desegregation Today (This American Life)". April 19, 2016.


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