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Faces Of NPR: Alex Curley

An Inside Look into NPR's Assistant Producer in Programming, Alex Curley.
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Faces Of NPR is a weekly feature that showcases the people behind NPR, from the voices you hear every day on the radio to the ones who work outside of the recording studio. You'll find out about what they do and what they're inspired by on the daily. This week's post features NPR's Assistant Producer in Programming, Alex Curley.

The Basics:

Name: Alex Curley

Twitter Handle: @AlexCurley

Job Title: Assistant Producer in Programming

Where You're From: North Wilkesboro, North Carolina: Home of Lowe's, Doc Watson, and that front page New York Times article that one time.

An Inside Look:

You're an Assistant Producer in Programming. What does that mean?

Like the channel on Sirius/XM (Channel 122) and the two international channels we run from Washington, DC, which are and our channel on the Armed Forces Network. For these three channels, I do anything from scheduling programming, maintaining the automation systems, copy-editing and producing stories for air, scheduling promos, and anything else that comes with running radio stations.

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