Miguel Macias
Assistant Professor
Television and Radio
Miguel Macias is a radio producer, sound designer, musician and video producer based in Brooklyn. Macias is an assistant professor at the Department of Television and Radio and director of radio for Brooklyn College Radio. Originally from Sevilla, Spain, he moved to the United States in 2001. After completing his M.F.A. in TV production, he joined New York Public Radio as an associate producer. In 2006, he became an associate producer and director for APM's The Marketplace Morning Report. In 2008 he joined Youth Radio as the Los Angeles Bureau Chief, and in 2009 he became a faculty member at Brooklyn College. Macias has produced documentaries, features and live radio. His credits include NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition; PRI's The World and This American Life; and ABC Radio National. For his work with WNYC's Radio Rookies he received a Peabody Award. Miguel aspires to tell stories told thousands of times, in a way they have never been told.
Show Scholarly Activities and Professional Accomplishments
Areas of Expertise:
Radio, sound design, video, transmedia journalism.
Creative Work
Production work for a Web interactive documentary that will explore the culture of work in Spain, its role in the current economic crisis, and how the crisis is impacting that culture of work for a certain generation of Spaniards. The project will also explore the importance of context in understanding foreign news coverage. 2013
Pre-production work for a new documentary and transmedia project that will go into production in 2013. "Your Brain on Immigration" will be a transmedia project that will explore the development of an alternative immigrant identity by emigrants who leave their countries past their teenage years. Macias is particularly interested in the parallelism that this process might have with that of having a double personality, and the mechanism that the brain uses to deal with two cultures, languages, social norms, habits, even attitudes. 2012
Production work for a documentary that is investigating the long-term consequences of the past internal conflict in Peru and the ongoing conflict in Colombia. 2011
Other Professional Activities
Coverage of the week of protests that a group of teachers from Andalucia (the southern region of Spain) staged in December 2012 to protest against the decision of the Junta de Andalucia (government of the region) to fire 4,502 public school teachers. Link to videos: http://radiofreeradio.net/docentesinterinos/english. 2013
Coverage of the 15M movement protests in Seville, Spain. http://radiofreeradio.net/sevilla19junio/ 2011
Coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement in New York. http://radiofreeradio.net/occupytimessq/; http://radiofreeradio.net/occupywallstreet/ 2011
Youth Radio's Bogota Series. In August 2009 I traveled to Bogota to conduct a two-week multimedia workshop with a group of teenagers. They were members of the nongovernmental organization Taller de Vida, which works with youth directly impacted by the violent internal conflict. Many of them have been members of the insurgency or paramilitary groups that are still active in Colombia. In New York, I worked to edit, translate, subtitle and design the multimedia Web posts for all seven stories on Youth Radio's website, http://www.youthradio.org/radio-juventud. 2010
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