Senior Executive Producer for News, WNYC Radio

Sixty-five years ago, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia read milk prices to New Yorkers on our airwaves. Today, WNYC’s audience reports to us the price of milk in their neighborhoods — with surprising results.

While we’ve been “crowdsourcing” on our call-in shows for decades, this new decade has fresh possibilities for citizen participation, data-based journalism and news exploration. Add our audience of more than 1 million listeners weekly and a newsroom of talented journalists … and the possibilities are huge.

Yet our abilities are limited. That’s where you come in.

We want to connect New York technologists with our journalists to build new ways of finding, telling and exploring the important stories about our city — and to make public radio more public than ever through audience participation and digital media.

At the moment, we’re developing new tools for our journalists, eyeing rich data sets to cross and display, and dreaming up new ways to connect New Yorkers to their city and each other.  And everything we’re learning, we’re sharing with our public radio colleagues across the nation.

If non-profit news innovation in the public interest interests you, please let us know. We are contemplating meetups and developer contests, creating rich partnerships with talented people and groups, and signing contracts to help build tools for our national morning show, The Takeaway and other public radio stations thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

We hope you’ll connect with us.

Editor’s Note: View the announcement John made at the January NY Tech Meetup in the video below: