Campaign Audio Curator
Charles Lane is a freelance radio and print reporter who files frequently with WSHU, NPR news magazines, such as All Things Considered, Day to Day, and Justice Talking, as well as Here & Now, VOA, Radio Netherlands, and Soundprint. He also writes for the Religion News Service, Catholic World Report, and Penthouse among others. He has produced five full length documentaries, the latest was about church music.
Charles’s reporting has been funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, and the PRX/NEA Reversioning Fund. He studied Patristic History at Oklahoma State University. He now lives in Harlem with his wife and her cat.
As Campaign Audio Curator Charles will work with PRX to find, select, annotate, and promote public radio and other audio material on Campaign ’08 and related issues. The collection will include produced pieces, interviews, raw audio from campaign appearances, issue-based and local or regional stories that can be edited or excerpted for re-use by stations and other project partners. An initial campaign collection is underway and located here: http://www.prx.org/articles/905