Multimedia and audio production for the web

Shannon Geis is a freelance audio and multimedia producer and an oral historian. She was born and raised in rural Nebraska and moved to New York City to attend New York University where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and politics in May 2010.

Shannon has a wide range of journalism experience, including experience in public radio, local news, magazine feature writing, and copyediting. She has been published in a number of local New York City publications, including The Local-Fort Greene,The Brooklyn Paper, The West Side Spirit, and Our Town.

Shannon got her first taste of radio reporting at NET Radio, the NPR affiliate station covering most of Nebraska. As a student at NYU, she hosted a weekly news show called Earshot on WNYU, the college radio station. She finished a semester at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in December 2012, where she studied documentary radio and multimedia storytelling. She recently spent time working at WNYC’s Studio 360, a weekly radio show focused on creativity.

She is recently worked on a project with NPR’s State of the Re:Union focusing on the stories of rural Americans. She continues to work as a freelance radio producer, doing work for WNYC, NPR, Marketplace, and others. Her stories have aired on several local public radio stations, including, WMPG in Maine, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KLCC in Oregon.

Shannon recently finished a Master’s degree in Oral History from Columbia University.