Robin Gianattassio-Malle
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Robin Gianattassio-Malle | |
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| Born | California |
| Alma mater | San Francisco Art Institute |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Visiting Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) and the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Founder of Blue Egg Media |
| Website | http://www.blueeggmedia.com |
Robin Gianattassio-Malle is an American journalist and producer specializing in the use of aural and visual media and is founder and executive director of Blue Egg Media,[1] established in 2008.
Gianattassio-Malle lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former director of The Center for Word, Text and Image,[2][3] she is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute[4] and at the California College of the Arts (CCA),[5] where she teaches courses using interview as a medium for the Upper Division Interdisciplinary Department as well as the Visual Criticism Department.[citation needed]
Education
[edit]Gianattassio-Malle earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts[6] from the San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California. In 2000, she was one of twelve journalists awarded a John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship,[7] at Stanford University in Stanford, California where she conducted independent research and participated in J.S. Knight journalism seminars and discussions with Donald Kennedy, Condoleezza Rice, and Anna Deavere Smith.[citation needed]
Journalism career
[edit]Gianattassio-Malle's career began as a reporter, producer and host with the National Public Radio (NPR) and Pacifica Network and was a founding member of the KPFA apprenticeship program,[8] recently rebranded as First Voice Media.
In 1988, Gianattassio-Malle became the founding producer and director of Forum,[9] a live two-hour daily live call-in program at NPR Affiliate San Francisco KQED-FM. She produced and reported on a wide range of issues focused on local, national and international affairs and developments in business, politics, technology, arts, and sciences.
Several media arts awards were given to Gianattassio-Malle in the early 1990s from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to produce Silver Threads 1989, Weaving New Images of Aging,[10] a documentary featuring women from around the globe, Original Treasure 1990,[11] a radio documentary on inter-generational friendship and TimeIn TimeOut 1993,[12] a documentary on living with life-threatening illness. During that same period, Gianattassio-Malle produced and directed The Persian Gulf: A National Debate, hosted by Alex Chadwick and distributed via satellite over the NPR network.[citation needed]
During the mid-nineties, Gianattassio-Malle produced and guest hosted the Commonwealth Club of California, a national weekly radio broadcast with topics ranging from politics, culture, society and economics, distributed to over seventy-five U.S. radio stations.[citation needed]
Gianattassio-Malle was awarded the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Asilomar Media Fellowshipand the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, Multi-cultural Producer Forum Fellowship.[citation needed] In 2010 she received a fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.[13] Gianattassio-Malle's residency at the STUDIO, produced a multimedia public interest program focused on the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserves in Pennsylvania, the economic development, and the environmental and social impact on the region.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Home". blueeggmedia.com.
- ^ http://www.sfai.edu/page.aspx?page=87 [dead link]
- ^ http://www.sfai.edu/Publication/Inform.aspx?InformID=3 [dead link]
- ^ "Robin Giannattassio- Malle". San Francisco Art Institute. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
- ^ "Faculty - Robin Gianattassio-Malle". California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
- ^ http://www.sfai.edu/page.aspx?page=299 [dead link]
- ^ "Knight Fellowships Class of 2000". Stanford University. Retrieved 2011-03-14. [failed verification]
- ^ http://www.kpfa.aapprentic.org/ [dead link]
- ^ "Public Radio". [failed verification]
- ^ http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1989.pdf | Page 98 of the Annual Report or page 123 in Adobe Reader [dead link]
- ^ http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1990.pdf |Page 152 of Annual Report [dead link]
- ^ http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1993.pdf | Page 104 of Annual Report or page 101 in Adobe Reader [dead link]
- ^ "Robin Gianattassio-Malle – the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry".