Leital Molad - Senior Producer

Leital has been with Studio 360 since it was hatching as a pilot in early 2000, and helped bring it to the airwaves with the launch team in 2001. In her decade at the show, Leital has worked as a producer, editor, reporter, and engineer, traveling as far as Tokyo and Cody, Wyoming for special editions of the program. She was the sound designer of the Peabody Award-winning episode American Icons: Moby-Dick and won an AP award for producing Kurt Andersen's interview with musician-poet Patti Smith. She holds a master's degree in journalism from NYU, and currently teaches a podcasting course at the School of Visual Arts’ Design Criticism program. She occasionally moonlights for other WNYC projects, like the Battle of the Boroughs talent competition, where she does her best Simon Cowell on the judges’ panel. Leital is a native Texan and got her start in radio at KVRX, the student station at the University of Texas at Austin.

David Krasnow - Senior Editor

David began producing stories for Studio 360 in 2001 with a profile of experimental musician Pauline Oliveros.  He joined the staff in 2003 after many years in print media as an editor and writer, covering music, design, American history, land use, science, and health care. Formerly the reviews editor of Artforum, he has written for the Village Voice, Jazz Times, Metropolis, The New York Observer, and The Wire, and remains a contributing editor for Bomb.  He teaches radio writing to print journalists at Mediabistro and has discussed how to pitch features at the Third Coast International Audio Festival.  Among his stories for Studio 360 are features on Andy Warhol’s soup cans, the folk ballad “John Henry,” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner” for the American Icons series.  He was first on air at 17 on his college station, WESU. 

Michele Siegel - Associate Producer

Michele has been with Studio 360 since its very first broadcast in the fall of 2000. She's produced stories on everything from the urban design battle facing New Orleans after Katrina to the boot camp survival story of an oboe player in the US Army Band. In 2008 she was awarded a USC-Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship in Los Angeles. She's also served as an "audio doctor" at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago. Prior to diving into radio she was a program coordinator for the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.

Derek John - Associate Producer

Derek joined Studio 360 in 2004 and is currently the show's News Editor. The Kansas native first caught the radio bug from a local doo-wop deejay who called himself "the daddio of the rad-dio." Derek eventually hosted his own radio shows at KU's legendary KJHK, before moving to New York in 2001.  He worked for PBS' Bill Moyers and NPR's On the Media before freelancing all over public radio on subjects ranging from early hip-hop to the future of books. His reporting has taken him from the bowels of Grand Central Station to a hot rod shop in the Mojave Desert and won numerous awards. Recent productions include a feature on Tea Party protest music, the first ever 3-D radio broadcast, and a documentary on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. His writing has appeared in New York, The New York Sun, and the Village Voice. He holds a Masters in Cultural Reporting & Criticism from NYU, where he currently teaches a radio reporting course.

Jenny Lawton - Associate Producer

A proud native of the Second City, Jenny joined Studio 360 in 2007. Since then, she's produced the show's American Icons special on I Love Lucy, lots of stories in the Aha Moments series, and a portrait of the Japanese tea ceremony from Kyoto. She also serves as editor of studio360.org and coordinates the show's internship program. Jenny started recording interviews as a Watson Fellow in India and Spain, researching the origins of flamenco dance. She cut her teeth in journalism at Chicago Public Radio, where she filed stories on culture, politics, technology, and the environment for WBEZ as well as NPR's Morning Edition and PRI's The World, among other programs. Jenny was awarded a USC-Annenberg/NEA Arts Journalism Fellowship, and lectures about radio and sound design at NYU and her alma mater, Kenyon College.

Josh Rogosin - Senior Broadcast Engineer

Hailing from Burbank, California, Josh joins Studio 360 after working as technical director at Marketplace Money in Los Angeles.  In Washington, D.C., he ran the sound board for The Shakespeare Theatre and worked on several NPR news magazines as well as the Radio Expeditions series.  He grew up performing at his parents’ regional theatre in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he caught the bug for everything arts and culture.  Apart from his love of recording sound, Josh enjoys taking pictures and playing guitar.