Career Robyn Semien

1 career

1.1 film , television
1.2 radio
1.3 awards

career
film , television

semien worked editor , producer of film , television, including associate editor on first season of american life s television documentary series showtime, , producer on second season in 2008. semien producer on 2012 video project, american life: 1 night @ bam.

radio

semien joined american life s radio team in 2007. s drawn notice reporting , producing on wide array of topics, card-counting in blackjack , father s car (for latter, listener-voted favorite in american life s 400th-episode competition among show s producers see develop best radio story based on idea pitched producer s parents) race , policing (named atlantic s round-up of exceptional works of journalism 2015), treatment young, non-offending pedophiles, , school inequality , violence. julie snyder , ira glass, semien co-produced acclaimed 2013 harper high school two-part episode of american life chicago high school 29 students had been shot in previous year. episode made best of lists @ slate, atlantic, newsweek, , propublica, among others. shortly after episode aired, first lady michelle obama visited school, , , president barack obama invited harper high students white house.

awards

semien , collaborators on harper high school episode won peabody award, judges calling work vivid, unblinking, poignant , gut-wrenching”; dart center prize journalism , trauma (“profoundly moving” , “extraordinarily comprehensive , compassionate ); jack r. howard award radio in-depth coverage; alfred i. dupont-columbia university award ( immersive, , intercut lively use of sound[; t]hese elements offered valuable insights ); fred m. hechinger grand prize distinguished education reporting education writers association; , third coast international audio festival s gold award best documentary.

in 2014, semien, luke malone , ira glass won third coast international audio festival s radio impact award story on struggles of young, non-offending pedophiles in teens , 20s , doing treatment. semien produced, malone reported , glass edited. same piece, semien, malone , glass finalists society of professional journalists deadline club 2015 award best radio or audio reporting , third place in national headliners award best radio stations documentary or public affairs.

in 2008, semien nominated producer, american life s television team, international documentary association s award best continuing series.