Award-winning radio documentarian and Mankato native John Biewen will discuss “Building Community Through Documentary Radio” and “Radio’s New Golden Age” in talks Monday, Nov. 22, at Minnesota State Mankato and Blue Earth County Library.
Biewen, director of the audio program at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, will talk about “Stories Told in the Dark: Building Community Through Documentary Radio” at 7 p.m. Nov. 22 in Ostrander Auditorium of Centennial Student Union.
At 2:30 p.m. that day he will discuss “Radio’s New Golden Age” in the Blue Earth County Library.
The events, sponsored by KMSU 89.7 FM and funded by the Minnesota State Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund through a legislative appropriation, are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public.
Biewen teaches at Duke University and produces documentaries for National Public Radio and other audiences. His work has earned many honors, including two Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Awards for Outstanding Coverage of the Disadvantaged and the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award.
His book, “Reality Radio,” is available at Minnesota State Mankato’s Barnes & Noble campus bookstore.
Biewen has reported on social, cultural and economic issues across the United States and in Europe, Japan and India. He began his career in the 1980s covering agriculture and rural issues for Minnesota Public Radio. In 1990 he co-produced “Season of Discontent,” a Unity Award-winning documentary about the lives of Hispanic farm workers who migrated between south Texas and northwestern Minnesota.
In 1997-‘98 he covered the Rocky Mountain West as a staff reporter for NPR News. In 1998 he became a founding correspondent and producer with American Radio Works, in 2001 co-producing “The Global Politics of Food.”
He earned a degree in philosophy from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 15,393 students, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system.
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