Producer Appreciation Weeks: Katerina Barton

The Takeaway

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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As part of our Producer Appreciation Weeks, Host Melissa Harris-Perry talks with the professionals behind the scenes who bring you the stories you value and the shows you love. Producer Katerina Barton revisits some of her favorite segments that she's produced throughout the past two years on The Takeaway: Gordon Plaza Residents Fight for Relocation from Toxic Land What is Driving the Truck Driver Shortage? What Does Queer Mean? Holiday Movie Prescriptions The Savannah Bananas Play Ball Katerina joined The Takeaway as an intern in 2020 and came back as a temp producer in 2021, before she became an associate producer in 2022. She has produced nearly 300 segments for The Takeaway. Prior to joining the Takeaway, Katerina earned a duel master's degree at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism in Global & Joint Program Studies: Journalism & European/Mediterranean Studies Institute, worked as a reporter at a weekly paper in central Texas, and spent a year teaching English on a small island in Indonesia as part of a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship. Find her on Twitter @KaterinaBarton.

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0:00.0	I'm Melissa Harris-Perry, and this is The Takeaway. Thanks for starting your week with us.
0:09.9	Late last month, we announced some sad news to you, our takeaway listening community.
0:16.2	After 15 years as the only daily national radio show and podcast produced by WNYC, the executives here at
0:25.8	New York Public Radio have decided to cancel the takeaway. Our very last episode will air on June
0:32.7	2nd. And as part of this cancellation, WNYC chose not to reassign any member of our fantastic team of radio makers and sonic storytellers.
0:45.3	But listen, we just can't let this all go down without taking some time to showcase the truly extraordinary team of professionals who've been bringing you the
0:55.9	stories that you value and the shows that you love. So for the next two weeks before the final
1:02.1	episode, we're going to be highlighting some of the work of our fabulous producers. We're calling it
1:08.4	our producer appreciation weeks. And trust me, you do not want to miss these episodes. We're calling it our producer appreciation weeks. And trust me, you do not want to miss these episodes.
1:14.5	We're starting it all off today with our producer, Katerina Barton. Hey, Melissa, great to be here
1:20.5	behind the mic with you. Yes, now you're one of the four people on our current team who've been
1:26.6	here at theaway the longest.
1:29.1	I mean, I have nothing on Jay and Vince. They've been here for 15 years at WNYC. But yeah,
1:34.9	I started back in January 2020 as an intern at the takeaway and around the same time that
1:40.0	our line producer, Jackie Martin, also started. And then I came back in 2021 and started working with you and this amazing team.
1:48.1	I totally remember that.
1:49.6	And it is an amazing team.
1:51.7	And Katarina, you're definitely one of the stars.
1:53.8	I hope you know just how much I've relied on your sophisticated news judgment,
1:58.5	your careful research, your clutch writing, your flawless editing,
2:02.8	and one of the most important roles you've played for this team has been articulating our
2:07.1	mission and helping all of us to think about the reasons why we make this show.
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