John Voci
Sr. Director RadioJohn Voci has worked in all areas of public media including radio, TV and digital, since 1977. He joined WGBH Boston in 1981 working in a variety of capacities over thirty-two years. He managed WGBH’s expansion and development of three broadcast services and six radio channels as well as the station’s move to new facilities in 2007. John has produced radio programs for National Public Radio, Public Radio International and WGBH; television projects for WGBH’s Basic Black; and was Technical Director for many of the station’s pioneering digital broadcasts. He joined NEPR in 2014 and in 2016, launched Media Lab, the station’s youth training initiative. He was also Executive Producer of Words in Transit, the station’s multi-platform series on immigration and for the podcast In Contrast. He is currently producer of Word Matters, a podcast on the history and etymology of words produced in collaboration with Merriam-Webster.
John is also a certified Project Management Professional specializing in project management for clients in broadcast and digital media.
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At a protest centered around the death of George Floyd in 2020, composer J.J. Peña Aguayo saw bomba musicians leading the way. -
Like many Puerto Ricans living away, composer Omar Surillo can’t visit home as often as he’d like. But his music brings memories of home and childhood to the listener. -
The rhythms of the bomba, Puerto Rico’s traditional dance music, are the underpinnings of composer Johanny Navarro’s work, "Belén: Un Canto Sagrado a mis Ancestros" (“A Sacred Chant to my Ancestors”). -
Composer Christian Quiñones, who participated in El Puerto Rico IV, said his music channeled a dichotomy between beauty and the fear of letting go. -
In a former industrial building in Florence, Massachusetts — near jewelry designers, a T-shirt maker and a school devoted to archery — is Feeding Tube… -
After 50 years, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is remembered for the crowd of some 450,000, the fields of mud from the intermittent rain, the historic… -
In Contrast will return with a new episode on September 11th with author Andri Snær Magnason. -
In Contrast is taking a summer break this July. Look forward to the next episode released on August 8 with poet Forrest Gander. While you're waiting for… -
The final episode of this series of "Words in Transit" features stories of immigrants from Bhutan and Slovenia and their work today to help other new… -
A woman from Ghana and a man from the Ivory Coast are grateful for the opportunities they’ve found here, but also feel that we can learn much from their…
