Journalist, audio producer, and host of the Peabody Award-nominated podcast “Scene on Radio” John Biewen joined the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University as Director of Storytelling and Public Engagement on May 1.

After 20 years as a reporter and correspondent for NPR News, American Public Media, and Minnesota Public Radio, Biewen began working as an audio producer and educator at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies in 2006.

In 2015, Biewen launched the podcast “Scene on Radio.” In his second season as host and producer, he chose the theme “Seeing White,” an examination of how race has been constructed throughout history. While Biewen’s work previously engaged with race — notably, in “Little War on the Prairie,” his account of the 1892 Dakota War that was first broadcast on “This American Life” in 1992 — “Seeing White” marked the first time he chose to focus on whiteness rather than people of color.

Along with Michael Betts II, UNC-Wilmington Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Biewen will collaborate with the Kenan signature program America’s Hallowed Ground to produce a multi-episode podcast about the 1898 race massacre and coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC.

Learn more: https://sceneonradio.org