Dan Gediman is the executive producer of the radio series This I Believe, which is aired weekly in the United States on several NPR news programs, including All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Sunday, and Tell Me More. Previously, he was a reporter and producer whose work has been heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Marketplace, Soundprint, Jazz Profiles, and This American Life, for which he produced a profile of his brother, a Tom Jones impersonator. During his 25-year radio career, Gediman has won many of public broadcasting’s most prestigious awards for programs such as Breaking The Cycle: How Do We Stop Child Abuse and I Just Am Who We Are: A Portrait of Multiple Personality Disorder. He also worked with legendary radio playwright Norman Corwin to produce 13 by Corwin and 50 Years After 14 August, which won the duPont-Columbia Award.
“This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. These short statements of belief, written by people from all walks of life, are archived here and featured on public radio in the United States and Canada, as well as in regular broadcasts on NPR. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow”…
“We hear parents writing essays that are letters to their newborn children expressing the hopes and dreams they have for them. And we hear the stories of faith that guide people in their daily experiences”, says Gediman.
At iFEST08 he will explain us the project of This I believe: how it began, how is it progressing and what are they planning to do in the next years.
