Tina Antolini

Coming Up

Audio storytelling at the intersection of journalism, culture, and sound is where Tina Antolini has worked for nearly 20 years, shaping reports through pacing, atmosphere, and close attention to detail. The craft here is longform narrative, live journalism, and culture reporting, with NPR’s “Rough Translation” and “State of the Re:Union” among the projects in her body of work; the latter earned her a Peabody Award in 2015. Education in story structure and listening runs through Stanford, Hampshire College, and Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, which together formed the groundwork for her editorial discipline. At NPR, Tina Antolini worked as a producer, translating sound into narrative and building the architecture of reports from inside the edit. At Gravy, as founding host and producer, the work took on the rhythms of food, place, and memory. At Pop-Up Magazine, she served as senior story producer, working where journalism meets performance and where timing is part of the form. Culture coverage at The New York Times is the current lane for Tina Antolini, and the title points to the range required of the role: audio journalism inside a newsroom with global reach. It extends the same habits that define her earlier work — turning lived experience into form, and form into something a listener can stay with.

Where They Are Now

At The New York Times, Tina Antolini continues in the space where reporting depends on voice, rhythm, and point of view as much as on information. Experience across NPR, Gravy, Pop-Up Magazine, and public radio gives her a practical command of how stories enter, develop, and hold in the ear. That is a useful fit for culture coverage, where context and atmosphere matter alongside the headline facts.

Signature

Tina’s signature dishes include Gravy, Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel, Rough Translation, and State of the Re:Union. Read together, these projects show the range of her reporting: food, place, identity, and public storytelling. Gravy connects to her work with the Southern Foodways Alliance; Shaya: An Odyssey of Food and My Journey Back to Israel point to intimate personal narrative; and Rough Translation and State of the Re:Union mark her long run in public radio and the immersive style that has shaped it.

In Their Words “I served as senior story producer at “Pop-Up Magazine,” a live narrative journalism show that toured theaters around the United States, and was the founding host and producer of “Gravy,” a podcast with the Southern Foodways Alliance.” “I’ve worked in public radio and podcasting for almost 20 years, producing shows like NPR’s “Rough Translation” and “State of the Re:Union,” for which I won a Peabody Award in 2015.”

Honors

Tina’s honors include James Beard Foundation Award, Livingston Award for National Reporting finalist, Peabody Award, and National Edward R. Murrow Award. They reflect a career recognized for rigor as much as reach, built through careful story construction and a consistent command of narrative form.