


Host of Public Radio’s Radiolab
Jad Abumrad
https://barclayagency.com/speakers/jad-abumradBIOGRAPHY
Jad Abumrad is the host and creator of Radiolab, a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times a month as a podcast.
Abumrad employs his dual backgrounds as composer and journalist to create what’s been called “a new aesthetic” in broadcast journalism. He orchestrates dialogue, music, interviews and sounds into compelling documentaries that draw listeners into investigations of otherwise intimidating topics, such as the nature of numbers, the evolution of altruism, or the legal foundation for the war on terror.
He’s won three George Foster Peabody Awards, and in 2011 Abumrad was honored as a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the Genius Grant). The MacArthur Foundation website says: “Abumrad is inspiring boundless curiosity within a new generation of listeners and experimenting with sound to find ever more effective and entertaining ways to explain ideas and tell a story.”
Jad also created and hosted three seasons of More Perfect, a series about untold stories of the Supreme Court, which The New York Times called “...possibly the most mesmerizing podcast.” And in 2019, Jad Abumrad created Dolly Parton’s America a Peabody Award-winning 9-part series that explores a divided America through the life and music of one its greatest icons. Alongside his radio work, Abumrad continues to work as a composer and remixer and is currently hosting a radio show on Apple Music.
LINKS
New York Times: Is There Anything We Can All Agree On? Yes: Dolly Parton (2019)
All Things Considered: Can Dolly Parton Heal America? (2019)
Rolling Stone: What a New Dolly Parton Podcast Has to Say About Life in the United States (2019)
Billboard: 'More Perfect' Podcast Announces Compilation Album Inspired by 27 Amendments (2018)
New Yorker: “More Perfect,” Where “Radiolab” Meets the Supreme Court (2017)
New York Times: The Creator of ‘Radiolab,’ a Lapsed Composer, Returns to Music (2017)
Time: Inside the Genius of Radiolab and Why It’s So Addictive (2016)
New York Times: ‘More Perfect,’ a Spinoff of ‘Radiolab,’ Comes to WNYC (2016)
San Francisco Chronicle: NPR’s Jad Abumrad brings his creative fears center stage (2014)
Wired: Sound Scientist: Inside the Home Studio of Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad (2014)
Globe and Mail: Jad Abumrad: The man who made public radio sexy (2012)
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