Laura Sydell is a radio broadcaster for NPR. She is a former senior technology reporter for Public Radio International's Marketplace, and a regular reporter on for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. She was recently a Freedom Forum Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley, teaching about reporting on culture.

Previous work and awards

While she lived in New York, Sydell worked on Undercurrents on the Pacifica Radio Network, and had articles published in many other publications. She has also reported for other radio shows, including Crossroads.

While a staff reporter for WNYC, her work won awards from The Newswomen's Club of New York , The New York Press Club , and The Society of Professional Journalists. Her radio documentaries of activists have similarly won acclaim American Women in Radio and Television , The National Federation of Community Broadcasters , and Women in Communications .

Education

Born and raised outside of Dallas, Texas, Sydell is a 1983 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hobart and William Smith, and later earned a law degree from the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. In 1999, she spent a year in the fellowship program at Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program.

References

Much of this information came from Sydell's official NPR biography as of late 2004.

See also:

• Careers choices of a few HWS history majors
• Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism
• Columbia's National Arts Journalism Program

External link

• Sydell's story on Wikipedia, broadcast on Weekend Edition February 20, 2005