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Miguel Macias
Associate Producer, Marketplace Morning Report
Miguel Macias is a radio producer, sound designer, musician and video producer based in Los Angeles.
In 2006 Miguel moved from Brooklyn to LA where he joined the team of American Public Media's Marketplace. He is currently the overnight associate producer for the Marketplace Morning Report (yes, that means that he works in the middle of the night).
Miguel received a Peabody Award in 2006 as the associate producer for WNYC's Radio Rookies. He worked for New York Public Radio WNYC for nearly two years. Before that Miguel had moved from Sevilla, Spain to New York in 2001.
He started working as the assistant to Martin Spinelli, the director of the Radio Studies Program at CUNY's Brooklyn College, while simultaneously earning his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Department of Television and Radio. During that time he was deeply involved in the construction of the new studios of Brooklyn College Radio and the development of the Radio Studies Program. Miguel also worked as a radio instructor at Camp Ballibay for the Performing Arts.
In 2004 Miguel joined the interns' team at WNYC's Radio Lab and soon after became part of the Radio Rookies staff. Miguel has produced long format radio pieces, features as well as live radio. Among the most important to him are Chasing Love — a one-hour radio documentary that explores the relationship between capitalism and romantic love in western society — and Ayacucho — a half hour documentary about the Shinning Path of Peru and memory.
Miguel is also extremely proud to be a volunteer for the NGO Madre. As such, he has trained indigenous radio reporters in Peru and instructed video editing to teenagers in Colombia.
Miguel's credits include NPR's All Things Considered, PRI's The World, PRI's This American Life and ABC Radio National. Always a skeptic, at times a cynic, when no one looks sometimes, a nihilist and secretly, he dreams with one day becoming a revolutionary or a fireman.
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"I disagree with Diana Nyad, who told Bob Moon today that Americans are not interested in Wimbledon because there are so few Americans playing. I love watching tennis, no matter who is playing. I have watched tennis for years, but the networks toy with us, creating drama rather than showing the match. Oftentimes, televised matches end precisely when the allotted time expires, even if they have to cut and splice. When they don't, as happened in a Nadal match last weekend, we were left hanging at the end of two sets, as NBC switched to women's golf. I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't switch to MSNBC as was suggested. It's enough to make me turn off the TV and read about the matches online."
