I’m a radio and podcast producer and reporter from Chicago, now based in Brooklyn.
I’m the Senior Producer of Slate’s history podcast One Year, which was named one of the ten best podcasts of the year by the New York Times and earned me the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio/Audio Documentary. Before that, I made podcasts for CNN and I was a staff producer for Studio 360, the Peabody Award-winning arts & culture public radio show from PRI. I also produced Sound Opinions, a nationally broadcast show about music from WBEZ Chicago.
Contact me at evan [at] evanevanevan dot com.
Here are some samples of my recent radio work:
Readymade soundtracks for imaginary films
How composers of library music — pre-made stock music, offered for relatively low prices — anonymously churned out some of the strangest, funkiest music of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.
10-4, Rubber Duck: The story of "Convoy"
C.W. McCall had a surprise #1 hit in 1976 with the novelty trucker song "Convoy." Most surprising, though, was that McCall never existed. How a fictional character from a bread commercial, inspired by a real-life trucker rebellion, ended up sparking the ‘70s CB radio craze.