https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/zach-gottehrercohen daily 0.75 2015-10-26 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/zach-gottehrercohen/street-scenes monthly 0.5 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1566186859222-TK0CC4KF5RB21C30GTCJ/tumblr_n9l2xnMSi81sjwwzso1_500.gif Zach Gottehrer-Cohen - Storytelling with many voices - Audio Most of my experience in audio comes from my work at WNYC, as a producer for Brian Lehrer, All Of It, and various special Live Radio programs. I have also made some individual forays into longform explanatory projects, with an exploration of how modern web tools insulate us from propaganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1619974163062-355WJYQWGPYWX2U5Q5OT/Screenshot+from+2021-05-02+12-45-22.png Zach Gottehrer-Cohen - Storytelling with many voices - Interactives A story is more likely to resonate with an audience if they’re given the opportunity to participate in its telling. Data offers unique opportunities to invite audiences in. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I produced Gothamist’s infection maps and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1566182171175-KWLU9SZCPXYRNFZGNZ61/nine-eleven.jpg Zach Gottehrer-Cohen - Storytelling with many voices - Local Reporting From the summer of 2017 to the winter of 2018, I was a reporter and then assistant editor covering three Long Island communities. Here are some stories that stuck with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/80af1c79-33fc-4974-a7e6-fdffed7dfcd9/a1436339125_16.jpg Zach Gottehrer-Cohen - Storytelling with many voices - Music I make music and sound art under the artist name rubberFoot. My musical trajectory has been jam bands > Americana > world folk > experimental/contemporary classical > electronic ambient and beyond. I’ve dabbled in singer-songwriter/bedroom producer modes, as well as algorithmic music, live looping, and both electronic and folk ambient. I also make royalty-free scenic tracks for podcasts and other content creators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1566180723097-JTCEWBHMYRO3G60PATF0/Monte+Nido+flags.jpg Zach Gottehrer-Cohen - Storytelling with many voices - Photography While I was reporting on Long Island, I acted as the photographer for many of my stories. Here’s a collection of my efforts to create powerful images that help tell my stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1619973195331-8ZRYAMOMKKC4FKM741TD/Screenshot+from+2021-05-02+12-32-56.png Zach Gottehrer-Cohen - Storytelling with many voices - Engagement Projects Engagement is about creating opportunities to turn an audience into a community. WNYC is blessed with an active and engaged listenership, and the generous contribution of their voices have been the building blocks of the work I’m proudest of, including a crowdsourced “Reading Their Names” audio memorial to New Yorkers who died of COVID-19, and a time capsule of our pandemic year. https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/broadcast-audio daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/broadcast-audio/brian-lehrer-a-daily-politics-podcast monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/c64f762c-2923-47f3-8371-b3ecf34c857d/BL.jpg broadcast / audio - Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - A live-to-tape repackaging success story https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/broadcast-audio/brian-lehrer-a-daily-politics-podcast-93fb7 monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/7e45d501-5fd4-4be1-bfcf-60defb229a8c/AS.jpg broadcast / audio - All Of It, with Alison Stewart - Arts, Culture Society, Lifestyle https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/broadcast-audio/local-pop-up-midterm-special-with-brigid-bergin-2022 monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/broadcast-audio/hold-on-a-national-conversation-about-mental-health monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/broadcast-audio/brian-lehrer-a-daily-politics-podcast-93fb7-9amgm monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/d856d21a-e25d-4a5d-ae08-0548018a5a4a/DigitopiansLogo.png broadcast / audio - 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Making connections This was a story we had to approach from several angles. A company that provides surveillance cameras to border security agencies was hacked. At issue are concerns about privacy, cybersecurity, trafficking and immigration. We matched a tech reporter with a former immigration official to ensure we had all the bases covered, and to enable a conversation across areas of expertise. (The Takeaway) Some of my favorite segments have multiple voices. Here’s one where we kept the speakers separate because they spoke to two issues that were each confusing on their own, and were distinct enough that crosstalk would be counterproductive. (The Takeaway) And here’s one where two people who agree on a problem, but disagree about the solution, come together to talk about it respectfully. Truly the bread and butter of public radio. 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(The Takeaway) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1567640551065-UB5SDP99VC4QHQPCXTNI/Floods.jpg WNYC - Covering humanity A series of storms in March 2019 left much of the Midwest flooded, with acres of farms and ranches utterly washed out. For a guest, we settled on an agriculture reporter from Lincoln, NE, and had also hoped to include the voice of someone whose crops and livestock were directly affected. It was their story to tell. I spent the morning cold-calling cattle ranchers listed by local Chambers of Commerce. I was asking them to take a break from draining and clearing their fields and pastures to tell a New York City radio station about it. Unsurprisingly, and understandably, they didn’t. Our reporter guest carried the segment on his own, and you could actually hear the humanity of those affected — his sources and friends — come through in his interview. The lesson for me was that making the hardest calls is the only way to know you did your best to serve the story, its subjects and the listeners. (The Takeaway) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1576533665006-YPTT53R8J94S5VSMX9F5/impeachment_1600x1200_4wWvLWI.png WNYC - Daily Podcasts I’m one of a team of two producers taking the lead on Brian Lehrer’s daily politics podcast, which we spun off from his topic specific impeachment podcast. My role is cutting the best 20 minutes from the 30/40-minute discussions from the live show. During impeachment, I handled audience engagement (our listener voicemail and “Listener Articles of Impeachment” project), booking and planning for different angles of this singular topic, and navigating live-to-tape production in an environment where our live discussions were frequently pre-empted by congressional hearings. As a learning experience, my journalistic takeaways are that talk-therapy is important for a nation going through an existential crisis, and that while wall-to-wall coverage can feel grating, it’s critical to have asfull a record as possible of these moments of national reckoning. https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/about daily 0.75 2024-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1566278205088-YB1D87THZQ4R8HOPB9F9/bitmoji-20181119033015.jpg About - About Me https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/maps daily 0.75 2019-09-04 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/engagement-projects daily 0.75 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1619975998853-WN4REIR2OG7XJLH7FLBY/AP_20149829646301.jpg Engagement Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/8d59e65d-5468-4314-994f-3ae8808a480e/Screenshot_2023-07-30_11-22-27.png Engagement Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1619976082694-677S8WLQ5BY9SH30MOQN/Image_from_iOS_117.2e16d0ba.fill-661x496.jpg Engagement Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/1619975243662-9EP921HSXUSCSV8VBJHP/Screenshot+from+2021-05-02+12-32-56.png Engagement Projects https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/about-wexley daily 1.0 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5a039dff86bf0001fb5d7a/f98c19d0-9327-42ad-b006-737333b056e7/unnamed.png about https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/contact-wexley daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/community-reporting daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/audience-engagement daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/data-journalism daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.zgottehrercohen.com/music-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-13