Jacob Soboroff

Jacob

I'm the AMC News correspondent, host of KCET's SoCal Wanderer, and executive director of Why Tuesday? I co-hosted NBC's School Pride and have contributed reporting to CNN, NPR's Weekend Edition and the PBS series WIRED Science. I'm a member of the City Year Los Angeles associates board. I got my BA in politics and MA in political theory and philosophy from New York University. During college, I was an advance man to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and presidential candidate Howard Dean. Watch my reel at jacobsoboroff.com/reel.







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Little known radio secret: the “cough” button. (Taken with Instagram at NPR West)

Little known radio secret: the “cough” button. (Taken with Instagram at NPR West)

205 notes  18/01/12  #NPR  #Why Tuesday

I’ll be live on NPR’s Tell Me More in 30 minutes. Just got here. (Taken with Instagram at NPR West)

I’ll be live on NPR’s Tell Me More in 30 minutes. Just got here. (Taken with Instagram at NPR West)

0 notes  18/01/12  #Why Tuesday  #NPR

“Father Dollar” Maurice Chase has died at 92. In 2009 I interviewed him for NPR about the thousands of dollars in cash he has given away on L.A.’s skid row.

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This is a quick interview I did about video blogging with Aram Zucker-Scharff for United Press International’s student journalism initiative UPIU after the D.C. Media Makers event Wednesday night at NPR in Washington. At DCMM, I spoke about Why Tuesday? and how we used video blogging. Here’s the video of my speech: Part 1; Part 2.

1 note  26/02/10  #NPR  #Why Tuesday

Here’s video of the second half of my speech to D.C. Media Makers Wednesday night at NPR in in Washington about Why Tuesday? and our efforts. Click here for the first half.

Notes  26/02/10  #NPR  #Why Tuesday

Here’s video of the first half of my speech to D.C. Media Makers Wednesday night at NPR in in Washington about Why Tuesday? and our efforts. Click here for the second half.

Notes  26/02/10  #NPR  #Why Tuesday

Yesterday I visited KCRW during a taping of Left, Right and Center and made this video while hanging out. In the video are Arianna Huffington and host Matt Miller. Thanks to KCRW producer and PR director Sarah Spitz for having me.

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My vlog for this week’s NPR Weekend Soapbox: Skid Row with “Father Dollar.” He has given away free money on LA’s Skid Row for the last 24 years! Full blog post on NPR here.

Notes  18/04/09  #NPR

I was interviewed by Zadi Diaz for PBS Engage at SXSW about AMC News, Why Tuesday? and NPR Soapbox.

Notes  18/03/09  #AMC News  #NPR  #Why Tuesday

Vlogging from SXSW for NPR

Yesterday I spent time roaming the halls of the Austin Convention Center for NPR Weekend Soapbox and caught up with Steve Garfield, one of the very first video bloggers, Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf of the popular video blog EPIC FU, blogger Robert Scoble, Fred Davis, part of the “brain trust” that founded and launched Wired Magazine, and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig. I spoke to them about everything from publicly financed elections to web video formats.

Watch the vlogs below, or on NPR.

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