Jay Allison is an American independent public radio producer and broadcast

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

. His work has been featured on radio programs such as ''

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'', as well as

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's ''

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'', and ''

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''. Allison is the Executive Director of Atlantic Public Media, which produced and administers Transom.org and the

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PRX, and is the "Curator" and co-producer, with Dan Gediman, of ''

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''. He is also the "Curator" of the radio program, Heart of the Lan

He was the 1996 recipient of the CPB's Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding contributions to public radio,CPB: Recipients of the Edgar R. Murrow Award
the only independent producer to have received it. He has also received five Peabody Awards. Allison and Gediman collected some of the best essays from the ''This I Believe'' series and published them in the books ''This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women'' () and ''This I Believe II'' ().

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