John Barth is the Chief Content Officer at PRX, where he finds fresh talent for PRX shows and partners and develops new shows for broadcast and on-demand listening.
John oversees a national program portfolio including two daily shows – The World and The Takeaway, the latter produced at WNYC. And, he has been instrumental in creating The Moth Radio Hour and the duPont-Columbia Award-winning investigative program Reveal. He has also launched non-fiction podcasts with Esquire, The Smithsonian Institutions, Outside magazine among others.
He was the founding producer of the business program Marketplace, then ran AOL's news operations and business, and was in charge of original content for Audible.
He’s been a reporter and news director at public radio stations in Missouri, Minnesota, and Philadelphia and reported for NPR and Business Week. John advises the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and has taught there as an adjunct.
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