John Dankosky

Submitted by medialab on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 14:45

"As a kid I wanted to be Dr. Johnny Fever."

John Dankosky has been working in radio - mostly public radio - for 20 years. Since coming to Connecticut in 1994, he has helped to build WNPR's award-winning newsroom, cultivating one of the most talented news staffs in public radio. He has reported for National Public Radio on presidential elections, crime, education, drug abuse, immigration and more. He has edited award-winning documentaries on Connecticut history, 9/11, and the mental health of children, and has been involved in editorial planning for Public Radio News Directors, Inc., The Public Radio Exchange, and NPR's Local News Initiative. He has won awards for reporting, hosting Where We Live, and "overall station excellence" from the AP.

Since 2004, Mr. Dankosky has served as an adjunct journalism professor at Quinnipiac University. He has also worked as an editor at NPR in Washington, and at stations in Boston and Pittsburgh. He's a native of the "Steel City," and tells anyone he meets about the Steelers, the Pirates, and Primanti Brothers sandwiches. He is an amateur drummer, who regularly plays music with other WNPR musicians, and dreams of being Charlie Watts or Elvin Jones, or even...well, decent. He lives in Winsted with his wife Jennifer, and cats, Daisy and Dirk.

Courtesy of cpbn.org

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John Dankowsky is a New

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 14:57.

John Dankowsky is a New England treasure. He never fails to pique my interest in any subject he tackles. Unlike all the blowhards on the left and the right that fill the airwaves with incivility, acrimony, ad hominem sound bitesand partisan politics, Dankowsky models the ideal host and interviewer. He has a respect for people and ideas. His restrained, judicious enthusiasm is palpable, along with a total lack of ego. I am a great admirer of this autodidact. If only we could "sentence" skinheads, rabid members of the Christian Right, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Lou Dobbs listeners to mornings filled with his thoughtful explorations, these people would come away with a far better sense of what this country shooud be - and could be.