Miki Meek

American radio producer and journalist

Miki Meek
NationalityAmerican/Japanese
OccupationRadio producer

Miki Meek is an American radio producer and journalist best known as a producer for the radio program This American Life. She was an intern and then freelanced for the show before joining the staff in December 2012. She has worked as an online producer and editor at National Geographic and The New York Times. Meek has won two Emmy Awards for documentary programming.[1]

Early life and career

Meek was born to a Japanese mother and a White American father.[2] She grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in West Mountain, Utah.[3] In her early teens, the family moved to Japan and she attended an international school, where she bonded with other biracial students.[2] Ultimately in 1997,[4] she graduated from Payson High School in Utah County, Utah.[5] Meek speaks Japanese.[2] As an adult, she changed her name to Miki, her mother's nickname for her, explaining, "It is definitely more me. It gives a nod to my Japanese side.”[2]

While still in college, Meek started her journalism career as a newspaper stringer for The Salt Lake Tribune.[6] She next found work as an online producer and editor National Geographic, specializing in interactive and visual storytelling; she ultimately helped launch the magazine's first website.[6] Meek transferred to The New York Times in 2008, serving in a similar role, where she stayed until 2011.[6]

Meek was one of the producers who earned a 2010 Emmy Award for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries for One in 8 Million.[7] She won the award again the following year for the documentary 14 Actors Acting.[8] In 2014, she and 15 other contributors created the Instagram account @everydayusa, with the goal of answering "“What does America mean to me?" to people of varying backgrounds.[3] In 2019, she was one of the producers awarded a 2019 duPont-Columbia Award two-part episode "Our Town" of This American Life.[9]

Awards

  • Emmy for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries (2010) – One in 8 Million[7]
  • duPont-Columbia Award (2019) – "Our Town" episode of This American Life[9]
  • Gerald Loeb Award for Audio (2022) – "'We're Coming for You': For Public Health Officials, a Year of Threats and Menace"[10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Staff". This American Life. Archived from the original on March 17, 2019. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Frank, Cassandra (February 21, 2010). "Choosing Racial Sides ... American Society Forces Its Children To Make The Tough Choices". www.usaonrace.com. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  3. ^ a b Instagram staff (July 4, 2015). "Instagram". www.facebook.com. Retrieved April 13, 2019. {{cite web}}: |author1= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Hiskey, Lana (March 2017). "Payson High featured on national radio show". Serve Daily. 6 (58): A1–A3. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  5. ^ Mann, Court; Clements, Derrick (February 17, 2017). "Ira Glass tells 'What Say Ye?' podcast about visiting Payson High School". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on June 4, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "2014 Eyes of History: Multimedia Contest". White House News Photographers Association. 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  7. ^ a b "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS AT THE 31st ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS, DOCUMENTARIAN FREDERICK WISEMAN RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AND PBS NEWSHOUR HONORED WITH CHAIRMAN'S AWARD | The Emmy Awards - The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". Emmy Online. Archived from the original on June 17, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  8. ^ "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS AT THE 32nd ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS LARRY KING RECIEVES [sic] LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS | The Emmy Awards - The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". Emmy Online. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Winners of the 2019 duPont-Columbia Awards | School of Journalism". Columbia. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  10. ^ Daillak, Jonathan (September 30, 2022). "Winners of the 2022 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson at New York City Event" (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. PR Newswire.
  11. ^ Barry-Jester, Anna Maria; Meeks, Miki (April 23, 2021). "The Herd, Act One: Hazardous to Your Health Official". This American Life. Episode 736. Transcript.

External links

  • Miki Meek on Twitter
  • Miki Meek's work for The New York Times
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Gerald Loeb Award for Video/Audio (2014–2015)
(2014–2015)
  • 2014: Mike Goldrick, Jeff Piper, Tisha Thompson, Rick Yarborough
  • 2015: Jeremy Carroll, Felipe Escamilla, Vicky Nguyen, Kevin Nious, David Paredes, Julie Putnam, Mark Villarreal
Gerald Loeb Award for Audio (2016–2023)
(2016–2019)
  • 2016: Annette Elizabeth Allen, Chris Arnold, Uri Berliner, Neal Carruth, Heidi Glenn, Alyson Hurt, Avie Schneider, Lori Todd, John Ydstie, Ariel Zambelich
  • 2017: Alex Blumberg, Lisa Chow, Alexandra Johnes, Luke Malone, Molly Messick, Simone Polanen, Kaitlin Roberts, Bruce Wallace
  • 2018: David Brancaccio, Katie Long, Nicole Childers, Ben Tolliday, Daniel Ramirez, Paulina Velasco
  • 2019: Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, Liz Essley White, Joe Yerardi
(2020–2023)
  • 2020: Najib Aminy, Fernando Arruda, John Barth, Jim Briggs, Andrew Donohue, Byard Duncan, Will Evans, Mwende Hinojosa, Esther Kaplan, Al Letson, Melissa Lewis, Katharine Mieszkowski, David Rodriguez, Kevin Sullivan, Taki Telonidis, Matt Thompson, Hannah Young, Rachel de Leon, Reveal staff
  • 2021: Najib Aminy, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Andy Donohue, Byard Duncan, Rosemarie Ho, Gabe Hongsdusit, Amy Julia Harris, Eren K. Wilson, Esther Kaplan, Al Letson, Katharine Mieszkowski, Sarah Mirk, Amy Mostafa, Claire Mullen, Brett Myers, Amanda Pike, David Rodriguez, Ike Sriskandarajah, Laura Starecheski, Kevin Sullivan, Matt Thompson, Shoshona Walter, Hannah Young, Narda Zacchino
  • 2022: Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Miki Meek
  • 2023 (tie): Rachel Adams-Heard, Jeff Grocott, Allison Herrera, Davis Land, Samantha Storey, Victor Yvellez
  • 2023 (tie): Jacob Borg, Russell Finch, Stephen Grey, Nikka Singh, Wondery Miniseries Team
Gerald Loeb Award for Video (2016–2023)
(2016–2019)
(2020–2023)
  • 2020: Bill Angelucci, Lisa Cavazuti, Cynthia McFadden, Daniel Nagin, Christine Romo
  • 2021: Anna Auster, Rebecca Blandón, Shaunagh Connaire, Thomas Jennings, Hannah Kuchler, Nick Verbitsky, Annie Wong
  • 2022: Liz Day, Samantha Stark
  • 2023: Till Daldrup, Robert Libetti, Jane Lytvynenko, Alistair MacDonald, Costas Paris, Lisa Schwartz, Emma Scott, Christopher S. Stewart, Ben Weltman, Avani Yadav