Alana Casanova-Burgess

Teaches at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Alana Casanova-Burgess is a producer for WNYC Studio's On The Media, a national public radio show and podcast about free speech, the power of the press, and the danger of spin. She previously spent nearly five years with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, the best local news talk show in the land, where she produced segments on everything from police-community relations to art and neuroscience (plus a public radio national election network). In 2016, On the Media earned the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel award for a special hour about the opacity of the Supreme Court. Her work has also been recognized by the ONA, PRNDI and the Council on Contemporary Families. She has recently reported for On the Media from Puerto Rico and Brazil. Alana is a bilingual native New Yorker with roots in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Dominican Republic, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. When she’s not thinking about radio, she’s booking airplane tickets and getting the **** out of here.