{"id":2,"date":"2010-11-17T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:37:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DianthaParker_headshot_v1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DianthaParker_headshot_v1.jpg 447w, http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DianthaParker_headshot_v1-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m a newsroom manager and editorial consultant, with deep experience in audio and digital media as an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">editor, reporter, producer, and host.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most recently, I&#8217;ve been a supervising editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/\">Marketplace.<\/a> I also work independently with organizations, small teams and individual clients to create compelling audio and multimedia &#8212;\u00a0 driven by great characters and unexpected outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/atwar.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/22\/in-a-little-known-wwii-battle-a-fathers-experience-becomes-a-daughters-journey\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was a digital <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news editor, producer, and reporter. I also managed and contributed to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/atwar.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/diantha-parker\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At War<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, The Times&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forum for exploring the experiences and costs of geopolitical conflict. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, I was on the small team that rebuilt the Times&#8217;s audio department, which later launched <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Daily, Still Processing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and other podcasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/search\/index.php?searchinput=diantha+parker\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I was a producer and editor at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All Things Considered,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weekend Edition Saturday, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Talk of the Nation, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and one of the creators of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait Wait&#8230;Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 2001-2008 I was a reporter at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbez.org\/search\/site\/diantha?page=20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WBEZ &#8211; Chicago Public Radio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, covering business, criminal justice, the military, and national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve also taught audio reporting and production at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Columbia University Journalism<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> School, where I&#8217;ve had the great pleasure of helping other people fall in love with the medium.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Drop me a line <a href=\"mailto:parker.diantha@gmail.com\">here<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/diantha-parker-9a75b12\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a newsroom manager and editorial consultant, with deep experience in audio and digital media as an editor, reporter, producer, and host.\u00a0 Most recently, I&#8217;ve been a supervising editor at Marketplace. I also work independently with organizations, small teams and individual clients to create compelling audio and multimedia &#8212;\u00a0 driven by great characters and unexpected &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dianthaparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}