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Adam Ragusea
Birth Name:Adam Conrad Ragusea
Birth Date:22 March 1982
Birth Place:Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]
Occupation:YouTuber
Professor of journalism (former)
Education:
Channel Name:aragusea
Channel Display Name:Adam Ragusea
Years Active:2010–present (first started producing food videos in 2017)
Genre:Cooking, science journalism
Subscribers:2.4 million
Views:652 million
Silver Button:y
Silver Year:2019
Gold Button:y
Gold Year:2020
Diamond Button:n
Stats Update:19 February 2024

Adam Ragusea (; born March 22, 1982) is an American YouTuber who creates videos about food recipes, food science, and culinary culture. Until 2020, Ragusea was a professor of journalism at Mercer University.[2] [3]

Early life and education

Ragusea grew up in State College, Pennsylvania. Ragusea attended the Eastman School of Music but left before the end of his first year. He finished his bachelor's degree in music theory and composition at Penn State University in 2004.[4] He completed all coursework towards a Master of Music at Indiana University Bloomington, but did not graduate.[5]

Career

Journalism

Ragusea began as a reporter in public media for the Indiana University-owned WFIU, before moving to WBUR-FM in Boston, and then Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB).[6] While at GPB, he served as the organization's Macon Bureau Chief and host of the local Morning Edition.[7]

Adam Ragusea was a journalist in residence at Mercer University from 2014 until February 2020, teaching introductory and advanced journalism, and media production classes, while coordinating with regional news outlets partnered with the university's journalism program.[8] [9] [10] During his time at Mercer, Ragusea was the longtime host of and contributor to Currents The Pub, a trade podcast covering the public media industry.

YouTube

Ragusea created his YouTube channel on February 12, 2010, and his first videos were food recipes, made with the intention of sharing with his friends.[11] His videos began to garner attention for his "straight-to-the-point" style that is influenced by his background in journalism.[12] He also cites SpongeBob SquarePants as an influence on his style of comedy, describing it as "edgy but fundamentally [...] just a beam of bright sunshine".[13] He launched "The Adam Ragusea Podcast" with the first episode "Dorian Yates Drumsticks" releasing on February 25, 2022. Ragusea announced that he would drop from his usual 2 videos a week along with the podcast to only 1 video a week plus the podcast on December 19, 2022 in a video titled "The next phase of our relationship".

Personal life

Since mid-2021, Ragusea has lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife, novelist Lauren Morrill, and their two children. He previously lived in Macon, Georgia.[14] [15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ragusea . Adam . August 3, 2020 . Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them) . YouTube . I grew up in central Pennsylvania not far from where Milton Hershey lived, there's an amusement park there called Hershey Park..
  2. News: Thomas . June . How Journalist Adam Ragusea Became a YouTube Star . 2 July 2021 . . 8 June 2020 . en.
  3. News: How YouTuber Adam Ragusea Learned to Talk to the Camera Working . 2 July 2021 . . 7 June 2020 . en.
  4. Web site: Ragusea . Adam . September 28, 2020 . How flash-freezing preserves food quality . YouTube . That's doctor John Coupland, a food science professor at my alma mater Penn State.
  5. Web site: Ragusea . Adam . December 21, 2020 . How I became the Mariah Carey Christmas chord guy (and why I hate it) . YouTube . [...] I finished all my coursework for my masters, but I never graduated..
  6. Web site: Adam Ragusea. September 15, 2020. Georgia Public Broadcasting. May 10, 2020 . en.
  7. News: Press Publish 13: Adam Ragusea on podcasts and the pessimist's case for public radio's future . October 20, 2020 . . August 19, 2015.
  8. Web site: How Adam Ragusea's journalism background helps him in his YouTube career. February 12, 2020. YouTube. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200830034206/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb7GSuat22E&gl=US&hl=en . August 30, 2020 . April 27, 2020.
  9. Web site: Food videos bring Mercer professor millions of views. Rammohan. Janani P.. July 4, 2019. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. English. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200611040545/https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/dining/food-videos-bring-professor-millions-views/iuB0lADQP5GgzOpZKNoJHJ/ . June 11, 2020 . April 27, 2020.
  10. Web site: The CCJ Team - Mercer University. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160909223955/http://ccj.mercer.edu:80/team/ . September 9, 2016 . April 27, 2020.
  11. Web site: Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator. WMAZ-TV. February 13, 2020 . April 28, 2020.
  12. Web site: He was teaching at Mercer when a video he posted on YouTube went viral. Now, he's a full-time YouTube creator.. WMAZ. February 12, 2020 . April 28, 2020.
  13. Web site: The professor that went viral. Ragusea. Adam. July 2, 2019. YouTube. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Where I take a lot of inspiration from oddly enough is Spongebob Squarepants ... that show is like there's so much acidity in it, like ... it's edgy but fundamentally it's still just a beam of bright sunshine, you know, I want to be Spongebob upon the world..
  14. Web site: About .
  15. Web site: Adam Ragusea on Instagram: "Greetings from Tennessee! Folks have been asking, so I figured I should clear things up and confirm that we did move to Knoxville a few…" . 2022-02-01 . Instagram . en.

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