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Civil Conversations Project has been described in southwestjournal.com as "an ever evolving effort to help others host the kind of nuanced an empathetic discussions they hear on ''On Being''",<ref name=Thomas/> and a "lab for returning civility to civic life",<ref name=Thomas/> with a website containing conversation starters, video of live events, and interviews.<ref name=Mook/> Tippett describes the program as about "equipping people, wherever they may live, to create new conversational spaces".<ref>{{cite news|author=Smith, Megan|date=Fall 2014 |title=The Wisdom Seeker|newspaper=Cake and Whiskey|page=88}}</ref> |
Civil Conversations Project has been described in southwestjournal.com as "an ever evolving effort to help others host the kind of nuanced an empathetic discussions they hear on ''On Being''",<ref name=Thomas/> and a "lab for returning civility to civic life",<ref name=Thomas/> with a website containing conversation starters, video of live events, and interviews.<ref name=Mook/> Tippett describes the program as about "equipping people, wherever they may live, to create new conversational spaces".<ref>{{cite news|author=Smith, Megan|date=Fall 2014 |title=The Wisdom Seeker|newspaper=Cake and Whiskey|page=88}}</ref> |
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The project’s resources have been used by [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name=Mook> In 2014, The Civil Conversations Project lead an international pilot program to bring the concepts of the project to a variety of settings, including [[Northern Ireland]] and [[Jordan]].<ref name=Mook> |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
Revision as of 16:54, 4 February 2015
Other names | First Person (2001–2003) Speaking of Faith (2003–2010) |
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Genre | Interview |
Running time | 51 minutes |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
Executive producer(s) | Krista Tippett |
Recording studio | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Original release | September 22, 2001 – present |
No. of episodes | 283 |
Other themes | "Seven League Boots" by Zoe Keating |
Website | www.onbeing.org |
Podcast | On Being Podcast |
On Being is a Peabody Award-winning public radio conversation and podcast, a Webby Award-winning website and online exploration, a publisher and public event convener. Hosted by Krista Tippett, On Being looks at what it calls the "animating questions at the center of human life: What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live?"[1]
Radio program and podcast
Format
On Being is an hour-long radio show and podcast, hosted by Krista Tippett.
Tippett has interviewed guests ranging from from poets to physicists, doctors to historians, artists to activists.[2] Her guests include the 14th Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rosanne Cash, Wangari Maathai, Yo-Yo Ma, Paulo Coehlo, Brian Greene, John Polkinghorne, Jean Vanier, Joanna Macy, Sylvia Earle, and Elie Wiesel.[3]
In 2006, On Being became the first national public radio show to offer unedited interviews alongside the produced radio show in their podcast and on their website.[4]
History
Tippett first proposed the idea for her show to Minnesota Public Radio in 1998.[5] The program became a monthly series in 2001[6] and a weekly national program distributed by American Public Media (APM) in 2003.[7] In 2010, the show's name changed from Speaking of Faith to On Being. In 2013, Tippett left APM to start the non-profit production company, Krista Tippett Public Productions, which she described as "a social enterprise with a radio show at its heart".[4][8]
As of July 2014, On Being aired on 334 public radio stations across the United States,[9] and the On Being podcast reached a global audience of 1.5 million listeners a month.[9] On Being was listed in the iTunes top ten podcasts of 2014.[10]
Content
The Columbia Journalism Review said of On Being and Tippett, "To listen to her show is to hear how intelligent and thoughtful religious people can be when they are allowed to be subjective and not merely regurgitate dogma."[11]
After the economic recession of 2008, On Being produced a program on "Repossessing Virtue", an exploration of the spiritual and moral aspects of the economic downturn and flaws that have been exposed in financial systems.[failed verification][12][who?] Other series have included "Revealing Ramadan" and "Living Islam" and "The Civil Conversations Project." In 2014, On Being produced two radio specials. "Science on Human Frontiers" included interviews with Brian Greene, Natalie Batalha, S. James Gates, Sylvia Earle, and Esther Sternberg. Most recently On Being produced a special series on "The American Consciousness," a collection of live interviews at the Chautauqua Institution with Michel Martin, Richard Rodriguez, Imani Perry, and Nathan Schneider.
Social enterprise
Krista Tippett Public Productions was founded in 2013 by Krista Tippett as a non-profit production company with a 4,000-square-foot studio and live event space on Loring Park in Minneapolis.[8] KTPP manages the production and funding of the program, which is distributed by APM.[4]
The Civil Conversations Project
In 2012, On Being began a series of interviews and live events which became The Civil Conversations Project. The initial four-part series was a collaboration of the Brookings Institution, the Humphrey School, and the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. The project grew out of a sentiment that Tippett heard from many Americans who felt that our "civic life is broken, that bipartisan consensus is inconceivable".[13] Tippett says that "conduct in public spaces may be as important as the positions we take"; and "How do we walk in disagreement while keeping as much of our society intact as we can?"[13]
Civil Conversations Project has been described in southwestjournal.com as "an ever evolving effort to help others host the kind of nuanced an empathetic discussions they hear on On Being",[8] and a "lab for returning civility to civic life",[8] with a website containing conversation starters, video of live events, and interviews.[4] Tippett describes the program as about "equipping people, wherever they may live, to create new conversational spaces".[14]
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- George Foster Peabody Award for its radio and online production "The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi" in 2007.[citation needed]
- Webby Award 2014, 2008, 2005[citation needed]
- Wilbur Award, Religion Communicators Council, for “Religion in a Time of War,” and “Progressive Islam in America.”[16]
References
- ^ "About On Being". Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ^ Janssen, Mike (August 27, 2007). "Formal religion doesn't fence in Faith". Current.
In each episode, Tippett interviews one or several guests who hail from myriad disciplines—including poetry, physics, medicine, history and activism, as well as many religious traditions.
- ^ Adcox, Brooke (October 2011). "Spirited Away". Oklahoma Today.
- ^ a b c d Mook, Ben (September 8, 2014). "Naysayers be Damned, Public Radio's On Being Thrives as 'Social Enterprise'". The Current. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^ Block, Zachary (September/October 2003). "First-Person Singular". Brown Alumni Magazine.
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(help) - ^ Miller, Kay (November 2, 2002). "Radio for the Soul". The Star Tribune. p. B5.
- ^ Robinson, David (August 21, 2003). "Main Line Faith: 'Speaking of Faith' comes to Philadelphia". Main Line Times.
- ^ a b c d Thomas, Dylan (August 11, 2014). "On Being More Than Just a Radio Show". The Southwest Journal. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- ^ a b Boorstein, Michelle (July 30, 2014). "'On Being' host Krista Tippett on the Spiritual Life of a Religion Reporter". Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ "iTunes Best of 2014". December 9, 2014.
- ^ Beckerman, Gal (May/June 2004). "Why Don't Journalists Get Religion?: A tenuous bridge to believers". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
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(help) - ^ Tippett, Krista (January 22, 2009). "An Inner Life With New Meaning". Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ a b Sturdevant, Lori (September 15, 2012). "How do we break down our walls?". Star Tribune. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ Smith, Megan (Fall 2014). "The Wisdom Seeker". Cake and Whiskey. p. 88.
- ^ Bailey, Sarah Pulliam (July 31, 2014). "Krista Tippett, Host Of 'On Being' Faith Broadcast, Awarded National Humanities Medal". The Huffington Post. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ "Faith, Life, and Learning". Minnesota Monthly. April 2004.
Further reading
- Radio Program About Faith Defies the Skeptics The New York Times (May 28, 2010)