Marcos Sueiro Bal

Marcos Sueiro Bal is the Archives Manager at New York Public Radio.

Marcos is a member of the technical committees of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), and was part of the Collection Management Task Force that drafted the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan in 2012. In 2011 he co-translated the definitive text on audio preservation, IASA's Guidelines for the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. He is a member of the Standards Committee of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and has taught Audio Preservation at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science. In 2011 he mastered and restored Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, and in 2008 was nominated for a Grammy for his work on Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette. Marcos has worked at the Alan Lomax Archives, Columbia University Libraries (where he developed AVDb, a preservation prioritization tool), the Center for Black Music Research, Masterdisk mastering studios, and Emory University.

Marcos Sueiro Bal appears in the following:

The 2022 IASA Conference in Mexico City

Thursday, November 03, 2022

Audiovisual Archivists meet in Mexico City under the slogan "Archives of the Future: Open, Sustainable and Equitable"
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Tinseltown, Talkies, and the Celluloid Frontier

Thursday, March 26, 2020

A 1960s radio series captures the glamour and madness of early Hollywood, but with cool restraint.
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Behind the Scenes at The Daily Show

Monday, March 16, 2020

On the Media was there as the show took flight.
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Did ‘Seinfeld’ Put the Polish Back on The Big Apple?

Monday, March 09, 2020

Forget Giuliani: Did Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer make New York safe for America again?
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“It Gutted Me Like a Fish”

Monday, March 02, 2020

Charles Bowden on the emotional toll of crime reporting.
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“They all will follow...I’m Moses”

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Rebels without a pause, Chuck D. and Public Enemy take the “side road” to push the music industry into the Internet age
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Not your garden variety police brutality: On the Media on the Abner Louima case

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

“You like seeing instant justice delivered . . . until you get Abner Louima” - Jim Dwyer
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“Dad, if I went to Dartmouth, do you think I’d be mugged?”

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

How the world viewed America in 1995.
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“My radical solution is that we consider women human beings”

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Gloria Steinem vs. “The People vs. Larry Flynt”
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The Birth of a Cable News Nation: On the Media on the debut of Fox News

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

When Giuliani helped Fox News get into your home.
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Like a fish trying to imagine what reality would be like without water

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Oh, how quaint: On the Media analyzes America’s television addiction
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Bernie Sanders On the Media and Everything Else

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

"Who is the leader of the American working class today? Nobody knows", says Sanders.
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Portrait of Paul Manafort as a “convention fixer”

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

“I much prefer a man who tells me straight to my eyes that he’s going to manipulate me” --Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
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The Longest Shutdown Before The Longest Shutdown

Friday, January 25, 2019

Escaping the last longest shutdown.
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¡El español es fácil!

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

WQXR pioneered Spanish classes in 1943.
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Bob, Where Do You Keep Your Grammys®?

Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Saving the world's audio heritage is a group effort among passionate characters.
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Philip M. Hauser: A Demographer Looks at Civil Unrest

Saturday, February 03, 2018

Looking at the ratios before the riots.
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So Ya Think Ya Know Yer Morning Edition Hosts?

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Soterios Johnson is gone. Can you identify these six earlier hosts?
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The 1931 Files

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

An aural glimpse of WNYC's early history.

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