Virginia Prescott
Host, Word of MouthVirginia Prescott is the Gracie Award-winning host of Word of Mouth, Civics 101, The 10-Minute Writers Workshop podcasts, and the Writers on A New England Stage series on New Hampshire Public Radio. Prior to joining NHPR, she was editor, producer, and director for NPR programs On Point and Here & Now, and directed interactive media for New York Public Radio.
Throughout her radio career, Virginia has worked to build sustainable independent radio in the developing world and has trained journalists in post-conflict zones from Sierra Leone to the Balkans. She has been honored for her contributions with a Gracie award for her work on Word of Mouth, a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University, and was a member of the Peabody Award-winning production team for Jazz from Lincoln Center with Ed Bradley. Virginia loves working in public radio, but regrets that so many good outfits go unnoticed.
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How Much Talent Does America Really Have?America’s got talent! So does Britain…Pakistan, Nigeria, Greece, Vietnam, Sweden, Slovakia and a number of other countries in on the “Got Talent”, “Idol”… -
Returning Adopted ChildrenAdopting a child is for many people the culmination of a dream. But it takes work, and money – international adoptions can run from $15,000 to $40,000,… -
War Play: Video Games And The Future Of Armed ConflictThe "military-entertainment complex" has been quietly developing for decades. The Pentagon helped sponsor the first personal computers, a few big-budget… -
A Week Without Food: What It's Like To Live On "Soylent."Imagine a world where eating and preparing food was a thing of the past. Sounds like the stuff of science fiction, right? Well, that world might be closer… -
Has This Public School District Found The Formula For Educating American Kids?Like most touchy issues, few people agree on precisely how to cope with America’s public school system. Proposed solutions for some failing districts… -
"Pirate Joe" On Why Trader Joe's Wants To Shut Him DownIn June, the Concord Patch squashed a rumor making the rounds in New Hampshire’s capital: the truth is that gourmet grocer Trader Joe's is not opening a… -
A Biologist's Plea To Hollywood: Make 'Real' Animals The StarsTurbo is a big budget, animated, kid’s comedy about a snail’s dream to win the Indy 500, though the movie didn’t do as well as studios had hoped, one… -
When Giant Animals Die Off, Ecosystems SufferFifteen-thousand years ago, nearly 100 species of large animals known as ‘megafauna’ roamed the amazon forest before going extinct. A team of researchers… -
'GPS Spoofing' Is More Dangerous Than It SoundsWith all great innovations comes the potential for mischief. With so much of our social, commercial, and government infrastructure already online, it’s… -
Reviewing Google GlassLast February, Google sent out invitations for developers and consumers to “test drive” its new Google Glass technology – a head mounted computer that can…
