Recent reporting featured on NPR
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NPR, "Dirty nickel: The health costs of mining in Indonesia”
Indonesia is in the midst of a nickel boom and I went to the country’s largest industrial park to see how the growth of the industry is impacting locals, especially when it comes to air pollution. -
NPR, “Indonesia's capital of the future faces doubts in the present”
Indonesia is racing to build a new capital, and I visited to see whether the city is living up to its promises. -
NPR, "In Indonesia, a fishing village replants mangrove forests one seedling at a time"
Over the last 30 years, 40% of Indonesia's mangroves have been cut down mainly to create fish and shrimp farms, destroying local ecosystems. But I visited one small indigenous fishing village in Sulawesi that is changing that.
Reported Audio from WNYC - The Takeaway
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The Takeaway, “Narcan: How To Save a Life”
For this story, I spoke with Joanna Kaufman, whose brother, Benjamin, died in 2019 from a fatal opioid overdose. I also recorded a Narcan training from Elena Rotov, an overdose prevention coordinator at the Brooklyn-based harm reduction center After Hours Project.
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The Takeaway, “What’s Behind the Rise of Sober Bars?”
Along with my co-producer Ryan Wilde, we spoke with folks in the non-alcoholic beverage industry and customers at a sober bar in New York City. We look at what makes a sober bar still a bar, and discover the deeper importance of having a physical space for people to connect and come together in alcohol free environments.
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The Takeaway, “Deaf Concert-Goers Can Feel the Beat”
Along with my co-reporter Ryan Wilde, we reported on how concerts can be more accessible to the Deaf community. We also tried on some new haptic technology from Music: Not Impossible that could help make concerts and experiencing music more accessible.
Freelance Audio Production
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StoryCorps Studios, “San Diego Fire Chief Robert Logan speaks with his friend and colleague, Capt. Jason Shanley”
I produced this story with Storycorps Studios about how San Diego Fire Chief Robert Logan climbed the ranks to where he is today and what it meant for him to come back and serve the community where he grew up.
More produced work from WNYC - The Takeaway
The Takeaway: Gordon Plaza Residents Fight for Relocation from Toxic Land
We spoke with two residents, Jesse Perkins and Marilyn Amar, of the Gordon Plaza subdivion in New Orleans, who were fighting to be relocated from the toxic land their homes were built on by the city.
As an Associate Producer on this show, I scheduled, recorded, and conducted all of the interviews in this segment, wrote the script, assembled the audio cuts, and coordinated the final mix with our host, audio engineers, and technical directors.
The Takeaway: The Kinetic Movements of Kinetic Light
Kinetic Light, a disability art collective, performed a duet called Under Momentum at Lincoln Center in February. The performance shows the joys of continuous motion, the allure of speed, and the beautiful futility of resisting gravity and is performed on a series of ramps, and the artists interchange between wheelchair and floor movement. We spoke with Alice Sheppard, founder of Kinetic Light, who performed in Under Momentum, about the performance, the joys of moving the body, and access in the arts.
As an Associate Producer on this show, I sound designed the opening music of the segment, scheduled the interview with the guest, prepped the guest questions, and wrote the rest of the script.
The Takeaway: Almost A Year After the Russian Invasion, What’s Next for Ukraine?
We checked-in with these voices on the ground in Ukraine about how life has changed for them and how they’re reflecting on this one-year mark of the war.
We spoke with Christopher Miller, Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and author of the forthcoming book about Ukraine, “The War Came To Us,” and Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times. Olena Shevchenko, Head of Insight Ukraine, an LGBTQ advocacy group based in Ukraine, and Mariia Sirychenko, who in Kyiv when the city was attacked and left two days later to the safety of Lviv. Nearly a year later, she’s back in Kyiv.
As an Associate Producer on this show, I scheduled and pre-interviewed two guests, and recorded and conducted the other two interviews in this segment. I wrote the script, assembled the audio cuts, and coordinated the final mix with our host, audio engineers, and technical directors.
I produced nearly 300 segments for The Takeaway which can all be found at www.wnyc.org/people/katerina-barton/