Emily Reddy / WPSU Producer

Emily Reddy

Ed Sirianni and his wife, Cheryl.

Stories
01-23-2013

Vigil Marks One Year Since Paterno’s Death

Joe Paterno supporters braved single digit temperatures Tuesday night to mark one year since the former Penn State coach’s death. WPSU’s Emily Reddy reports several hundred fans attended a vigil to remember Paterno.

StoryCorps
01-21-2013

StoryCorps DuBois: Joanne Giffin Talks with her Daughter Paula

WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In October, we stopped in DuBois. Paula Giffin talked to her mother Joanne Giffin about how she met Paula’s father.

BookMark
01-17-2013

Bombshell: Women and Terrorism by Mia Bloom

Bombshell examines the stories and motives of female terrorists. Our reviewer, Paige Deckert, is a PhD candidate at Penn State University Park. She’s also a research assistant at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Penn State.

StoryCorps
01-16-2013

StoryCorps DuBois: Jenny Lisak Talks with her Friend Carol Houser

WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In October, we stopped in DuBois. Jenny Lisak talked with Carol Houser, her best friend of 51 years, about their time together in Catholic school, their time working in predominantly male professions, and their current fears about fracking in their town.

StoryCorps
01-14-2013

StoryCorps DuBois: Yola Sekula Talks with her Son Paul

WPSU is traveling to towns across central and northern Pennsylvania to collect oral history recordings. In October, we stopped in DuBois. Yola Sekula talked with her son Paul about her parents and about how she met the love of her life.

Stories
01-11-2013

Sandusky Lawyers Ask for a New Trial

Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer is asking for a new trial. He says the defense didn’t have adequate time to analyze the more than 12,000 pages of documents from the Attorney General’s office and the Grand Jury. WPSU’s Emily Reddy reports.

Stories
01-11-2013

Behind the Scenes at the PA Farm Show with a Livestock Photographer

This week at the Pennsylvania Farm Show hundreds of cows, goats and pigs will be shown off. And while you can tell the humans in the winner’s circle to “say cheese,” it’s harder to get the animals to look their best. At last year’s Farm Show WPSU’s Emily Reddy learned the tricks to photographing livestock from a pro.

This I Believe
01-10-2013

I Believe Hardship Presents Opportunity
Bill Zeruth
State College, PA

I believe hardship presents opportunity. I am a father to three boys, a loving husband to a beautiful wife, and an educator with the awesome responsibility to instruct our youth. But my life hasn’t always been so pleasant.

BookMark
01-03-2013

Learn Something New Every Day by Kee Malesky

WPSU’s own Emily Reddy usually hosts BookMark. Today she reviews a book that could be just the thing to help you with your New Year’s resolutions: Learn Something New Every Day: 365 Facts to Fulfill Your Life, by Kee Malesky.

Bio

Emily Reddy is a radio producer at WPSU. You can hear her feature stories during Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Emily also produces WPSU’s radio series This I Believe, BookMark, and StoryCorps and serves as a fill-in on-air host.

Before coming to WPSU, Emily anchored the evening news and filed reports for WMNF in Tampa, Florida. She also served as a general reporter in Washington D.C. for WAMU and as a Washington Capitol Correspondent for WNPR.

While in graduate school, Emily produced segments for the daily news magazine Here & Now out of WBUR in Boston. She earned her M.S. in broadcast journalism from Boston University.