Laura Sydell

Laura Sydell (born 1961 in New Jersey) is a radio broadcaster for NPR. She is a former senior technology reporter for Public Radio International's "Marketplace", and a regular reporter on for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", "Morning Edition", and "Weekend Edition". She was recently a Freedom Forum Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley, teaching about reporting on culture.

Previous work and awards

While she lived in New York, Sydell worked on "Undercurrents" on the Pacifica Radio Network, and had articles published in many other publications. She has also reported for other radio shows, including "Crossroads".

While a staff reporter for WNYC, her work won awards from The Newswomen's Club of New York, The New York Press Club, and The Society of Professional Journalists. Her radio documentaries of activists have similarly won acclaim American Women in Radio and Television, The National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and Women in Communications.

Education

Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Sydell is a 1979 graduate of Gill St. Bernard's School, a 1983 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of William Smith, and later earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.In 1999, she spent a year in the fellowship program at Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program.

References

Much of this information came from Sydell's official [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101272 NPR biography] as of late 2004.

See also:
* [http://campus.hws.edu/aca/depts/hist/careers.html Career choices] of a few Hobart and William Smith history majors
* Berkeley's [http://journalism.berkeley.edu/ Graduate School of Journalism]
* Columbia's [http://www.najp.org/fellowships.htm National Arts Journalism Program]

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4506421 Sydell's story on Wikipedia] , broadcast on "Weekend Edition" February 20, 2005