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American radio producer
Alix Spiegel
is an American
public radio
producer and
science journalist
. She currently works for
This American Life
.
[1]
Spiegel previously hosted and produced the NPR program
Invisibilia
with
Lulu Miller
and
Hanna Rosin
. She was one of the early producers of
This American Life
, then went on to work for
National Public Radio
and
The New York Times
.
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[3]
Biography
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Spiegel grew up in
Baltimore, Maryland
in a
secular Jewish
household. Her father was the great-grandson of
Joseph Spiegel
, the founder of the
Spiegel Catalog
. Her great-aunt was civil rights activist
Polly Spiegel Cowan
. She studied the
violin
seriously from a very young age at the
Peabody Preparatory
in Baltimore, but quit to go to college.
[4]
After graduating from
Oberlin College
, Spiegel moved to Chicago, where she saw an announcement in a newspaper about a fledgling local show for WBEZ called
Your American Playhouse: Documentaries About American Life
. In 1995 Spiegel began correspondence with the show's producer,
Ira Glass
, who took her on as an intern.
[4]
In 1996 the show changed its name to
This American Life
and was picked up nationally by
Public Radio International
, by which time Spiegel was producing pieces for the show. That year Spiegel and the show's other producers won the
George Foster Peabody Award
[5]
In 2002, Spiegel won the
Livingston Award
for episode #204 "
81 Words
" about Spiegel's own grandfather,
[6]
Dr.
John Patrick Spiegel
, who had a hand in removing
homosexuality
from the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
.
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In 2007, she won the
Alfred I. duPont?Columbia University Award
for the segment, "Which One of These is Not Like the Others?" for episode #322, "Shouting Across the Divide."
During her years on NPR's science desk Spiegel covered psychology and human behavior, with an emphasis on looking at how ideas about emotions come into existence and evolve.
[3]
In 2008 she won the
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
for her piece "Stuck and Suicidal in a Post-Katrina Trailer Park". In 2010 she won the
Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media
.
[9]
In 2021 she won a John B Oakes award from Columbia University for her environmental reporting. In 2022, after returning to This American Life, she was on the team that produced "The Pink House at the Center of the World", an episode about the overturn of Roe v Wade that won a Peabody. Spiegel's science reporting has also been featured in
The New York Times
and
The New Yorker
.
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