Miki Meek Explained

Miki Meek
Nationality:American/Japanese
Occupation:Radio producer
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Miki Meek is an American radio producer and journalist best known as a producer for the radio program This American Life. She was an intern and then freelanced for the show before joining the staff in December 2012. She has worked as an online producer and editor at National Geographic and The New York Times. Meek has won two Emmy Awards for documentary programming.[1]

Early life and career

Meek was born to a Japanese mother and a White American father.[2] She grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in West Mountain, Utah.[3] In her early teens, the family moved to Japan and she attended an international school, where she bonded with other biracial students.[2] Ultimately in 1997,[4] she graduated from Payson High School in Utah County, Utah.[5] Meek speaks Japanese.[2] As an adult, she changed her name to Miki, her mother's nickname for her, explaining, "It is definitely more me. It gives a nod to my Japanese side.”[2]

While still in college, Meek started her journalism career as a newspaper stringer for The Salt Lake Tribune.[6] She next found work as an online producer and editor National Geographic, specializing in interactive and visual storytelling; she ultimately helped launch the magazine's first website.[6] Meek transferred to The New York Times in 2008, serving in a similar role, where she stayed until 2011.[6]

Meek was one of the producers who earned a 2010 Emmy Award for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries for One in 8 Million.[7] She won the award again the following year for the documentary 14 Actors Acting.[8] In 2014, she and 15 other contributors created the Instagram account @everydayusa, with the goal of answering "“What does America mean to me?" to people of varying backgrounds.[3] In 2019, she was one of the producers awarded a 2019 duPont-Columbia Award two-part episode "Our Town" of This American Life.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff . This American Life . April 13, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190317225803/https://www.thisamericanlife.org/about/staff . March 17, 2019 . live .
  2. Web site: Frank . Cassandra . Choosing Racial Sides ... American Society Forces Its Children To Make The Tough Choices . www.usaonrace.com . April 13, 2019 . February 21, 2010.
  3. Web site: Over the past year, a group of photojournalists have been telling stories about Americans you won’t see on the news. [...]]. www.facebook.com . April 13, 2019 . July 4, 2015.
  4. Hiskey . Lana . Payson High featured on national radio show . Serve Daily . March 2017 . 6 . 58 . A1–A3 . April 14, 2019.
  5. News: Mann . Court . Clements . Derrick . Ira Glass tells 'What Say Ye?' podcast about visiting Payson High School . April 14, 2019 . Daily Herald . February 17, 2017 . en . https://web.archive.org/web/20170604035813/http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/celebs/ira-glass-tells-what-say-ye-podcast-about-visiting-payson/article_c1bfc759-ad4d-5d74-84ee-ec4602c3cb43.html . June 4, 2017 . live .
  6. Web site: 2014 Eyes of History: Multimedia Contest . White House News Photographers Association . April 14, 2019 . 2014.
  7. Web site: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Announces Winners at the 31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, Documentarian Frederick Wiseman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award and PBS Newshour Honored with Chairman's Award . Emmy Online . April 13, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180617193252/http://emmyonline.com/news_31st_winners . June 17, 2018 . live .
  8. Web site: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Announces Winners at the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Larry King Lifetime Achievement Award. Emmy Online . April 13, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190203030423/http://emmyonline.com/news_32nd_winners . February 3, 2019 . live .
  9. Web site: Winners of the 2019 duPont-Columbia Awards. Columbia University . April 14, 2019.
  10. Winners of the 2022 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson at New York City Event . Daillak . Jonathan . September 30, 2022 . . PR Newswire.
  11. The Herd, Act One: Hazardous to Your Health Official . April 23, 2021 . Barry-Jester . Anna Maria . Meeks . Miki . Miki Meek . . 736 . Transcript . https://www.thisamericanlife.org/736/transcript.

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