-: My name is Trenae Nuri
and I'm a producer at WHYY's Radio Times.
As a producer for Radio Times,
I work really close with Marty Moss-Coane,
so I prep her before the show,
so I'm usually giving her like
a big folder full of articles.
I'm emailing her video clips
and audio clips about the topic
that we're gonna discuss for the next day.
So the next day, we come in.
She's already prepped.
She knows what's gonna happen
or she's read the book if we're interviewing an author.
So, also, I book guests for the show,
so I have to make sure that
they can come to our Philadelphia studio
or we can connect with them through a landline or cellphone.
Sometimes we can get them in
another NPR studio around the country.
I also have to manage the phone lines,
which can get really busy
depending on the particular topic of the day,
so I ask people, "Radio Times,
"what's your comment or question?"
and they'll tell me what they want to say on air.
So I have to quickly summarize what they're gonna say.
I usually put a smiley face
if I want Marty to take that one next.
And I'm also monitoring our social media,
so I'm looking at our Tweets, our Facebook comments,
our emails, and our texts
and I'm gathering all that and posting that on a screen
and Marty reads that out throughout the show.
So, we're a live one-hour program,
so there's a lot of moving parts.
We can't do things over again,
so it keeps me on my toes and keeps me busy.
When you're in the news, there really is no ending,
but I work from about 8:30 to 1:30
and then I close it up
and I say, "Okay, I'm gonna now spend time with my family,"
but I do keep track all the time of Twitter
and I love watching the Nightly News at like 6:30.
I'm watching 60 Minutes,
just so that I can be aware of a lot of different topics.
We like to read a lot of newspapers.
I love the New Yorker.
So reading different things, being active in your community,
keeps me up on what's going on.