People
Jane Clayson
Host
In the last decade, Jane Clayson has risen to national prominence as co-host of a network morning news program and has covered high-profile national and international stories for both CBS News and ABC News.
Jane began her career at CBS News as co-anchor, with Bryant Gumbel, of The Early Show and anchored coverage of major news events, including the events of September 11th and its aftermath. At CBS, Jane interviewed U.S. Presidents, world leaders as well as the lighter side of American life… interviewing stars from Hollywood and Broadway, the Country Music Awards and the Kennedy Center Honors. Many will remember Jane’s highly acclaimed, exclusive interview with Martha Stewart prior to her federal indictment.
Jane’s work as a CBS News correspondent included exclusive prime time TV magazine specials on Elizabeth Smart and Jessica Lynch for 48 Hours. She has reported for several CBS News broadcasts, including the investigative “Eye on America” segments for the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather. Clayson occasionally anchored the CBS Evening News and was a regular contributor to 48 Hours.
Prior to joining CBS News as co-host of The Early Show, Clayson was a correspondent for ABC News where she reported for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” and “Good Morning America. (1996-99). Although she was based in Los Angeles, ABC News sent Clayson around the world, to cover the NATO air strikes against Kosovo, the refugee crisis in Macedonia and the Indonesian riots and subsequent fall of the Suharto government.
Jane’s high profile domestic assignments at ABC News included Senator Robert Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign and O.J. Simpson’s civil trial.
Jane began her broadcast news career as an anchor and reporter with KSL-TV in Salt Lake City. Her news series and documentary on American doctors work on behalf of children in China earned the coveted Edward R. Murrow award for the station.
She has been honored with many more journalism awards, including an Emmy. In May of 2004, she was presented an honorary Doctorate degree from Utah State University.
Jane left her network news career in New York City in 2005 to join her husband in Boston and begin a family. She returns to journalism at WBUR as host of “Radio Boston.”
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David Boeri
Host
So what do you do after you win just about every award there is in broadcast journalism? You become the host of a new public radio show, of course.
After Edward R. Murrow awards, Emmy awards, Radio and Television News Directors Association awards, Society of Professional Journalists awards and after being named Boston’s Best Political Reporter, David Boeri is making Radio Boston his next venue for award-winning journalism. David has reported stories such as the wars in El Salvador and Kosovo, environmental issues in Belize, politics in Canada and organized crime in Boston. At the Radio Boston office, we try not to eavesdrop on the calls he gets from the many sources he’s developed through the years.
While David’s television work at WCVB-TV and WGBH-TV is legendary, his entire career in broadcasting is impressive. In the early days of public radio in Alaska, he worked at KFSK in Petersburg where he would sign off with “you’re listening to KFSK, the only station on your dial.” David is a writer at heart and he’s contributed to publications such as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, Oceans, Yankee, Boston Magazine, and The Boston Phoenix. David is the author of two books.
After several years as a commercial fisherman in Boston, he wrote “Tell it Good-bye Kiddo: The Decline of the New England Offshore Fishery”. He later lived and hunted with Eskimo whalers in Northwestern Alaska and authored “People of the Ice Whale” (E.P. Dutton; Harcourt, Brace) about an endangered culture’s hunt for an endangered whale. David’s breadth of experience, skilled reporting and engaging style will be the hallmark of Radio Boston.
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Mark Navin
Senior Producer
Mark has been a part of the WBUR team for some 20 years now, serving the station in a variety of different roles. He got his start as a producer on the WBUR version of Weekend Edition, and went on to fill such diverse roles as Director of Production, Morning Edition Senior Producer, and Executive Producer for News. As Senior Producer of Here and Now for 5 years, Mark transformed the show from a regional program to a national one, and built audience and station carriage numbers while assembling a staff of talented and dedicated radio producers, editors and hosts. Over the last couple of years, Mark has worked on special projects and political coverge, most recently helping to coordinate WBUR’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
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Adam Ragusea
Associate Producer
A composer by training, Adam got his start in radio as a classical music announcer at WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana. From there he moved into news, where he hosted talk programming and filed stories for All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and On the Media. Adam came to WBUR in the summer of 2008, first as a fill-in anchor and then in the newsroom. He brings particular passions for urban planning, transportation, and arts & culture topics to his work on Radio Boston. He lives with his wife Lauren and their dog Lucy in Cambridge.
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Jessica P. Alpert
Assistant Producer
Jessica moved to Boston in 2008 and has lived many places since leaving her native Texas. After graduating from college, Jessica worked as a federal employee, documentary film festival producer, oral historian, college teaching assistant, traveling saleswoman, and klezmer musician.
Her work and projects have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Bust, Barnard Magazine, PDN.edu, and Public Radio International (PRI).
As a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador, Jessica collected and studied oral histories from the Jewish Community based in San Salvador.
Jessica received her B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University’s Barnard College and her M.A. in History from Indiana University. She learned how to make radio from the phenomenal folks at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. To learn more about Jessica’s projects, both current and past, please visit www.jessicaalpert.com
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Tim Skoog
Technical Director
“I know that there will be a place to go
and a way to go
and nothing need ever be
lost” – Charles Bukowski
An avid Bukowski reader, Tim is the audio artist here at Radio Boston. He takes our stories, voices, sounds, words, music, tape and ideas and creates what we call radio pictures. They might seem like simple recordings, but they’re actually a complex mix of sound, stories and voices interwoven into the pieces we present to you each week. Tim has been at WBUR for 10 years and we knew his audio magic would help create a signature sound for Radio Boston. We have given him a small, padded, sound-proof room here at WBUR, which he keeps dimly lit and works wonders with his equipment on our tape. Tim is also a musician and is spearheading our effort to create a local show with all local music. He doesn’t like to talk much about himself except to say he lives in Boston, drinks beer, and returns library books late.
