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Alicia Zuckerman has loved audio since she was a kid listening to comedy albums and call-in radio advice shows she probably shouldn't have been listening to. She is Editorial Director at WLRN where she edits narrative and investigative audio journalism. She routinely reminds reporters to find and make moments of joy, which is how she learned you can grow mangoes on a balcony, and about the popularity of Manischewitz in the Caribbean. In 2020, she was named Editor of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists Florida chapter.

30 years after Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Miami as a Category 5 storm, there are many lessons learned and lessons we are still learning about these powerful storms and the way their impact.

More than 40 people lost their lives and thousands of families were left homeless after Hurricane Andrew swept through South Florida

Alicia Zuckerman Alicia Zuckerman began making radio at around seven years old in rural New York State using two cassette recorders and appropriated material from Casey Kasem’s American Top 40. It was a couple more decades before she started getting paid to make radio, as a reporter and producer for NPR’s . At WLRN, she oversees narrative and investigative audio journalism and was co-creator of WLRN’s award-winning public affairs program,  Under the Sun, a series of documentary features and audio postcards .  She currently serves as president of (PMJA, formerly PRNDI). She routinely ...

Together, gosh, my partners were talking to him all day yesterday about some things we are doing. it's interesting -- what we were talking about, we were talking about the fact that he was adopted. i was adopted. talking about his father-in-law growing up in the same neighborhood i grew up in. his kids went to the same school i went to. we were talking about all those kinds of things an was interested to know about my life growing up because his kids were growing up in that same life. and it was just something really was -- he was alive about life and so excited about anything and everything h...