Growing up in New Jersey, Archivist Andy Lanset was probably the only 8-year-old who spent all of his paper route money on records and wind-up phonographs at the flea market and then cataloged them all in a 3x5 card file. Since then, he has gone on to amass an archive of his own as well as to collect, organize, and preserve thousands of recordings, photographs, and station-related ephemera for the WNYC and WQXR archive collections.
Since establishing the Archives in 2000, Andy has been working in-house with recordings in nearly every possible format. At the same time, he has been reaching out to former producers around the country for New York Public Radio materials that have migrated over the stations' long history.
After receiving a B.A. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Purchase, Andy began his public radio career in 1981 as the staff reporter for WBAI. By the mid-1980s, he was freelancing reports, features, and documentaries for NPR, CBC, BBC, Monitor Radio, and other public radio outlets. He produced several award-winning documentaries for NPR, including Scottsboro: A Civil Rights Milestone, which aired in 1992.
During the 1990s, Andy worked closely with David Isay and Henry Sapoznik on the Peabody award winning Yiddish Radio Project. He has also evaluated and preserved audio materials for NYU's Wagner Labor Archives, Columbia University, Cornell University, Union Theological Seminary, The Cleveland Public Library, The YIVO Institute, and other specialized and academic collections. Andy also has an MS and archives certificate from The Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Sciences. In October, 2009 he was awarded the Archivists' Roundtable of Metropolitan New York Award for Archival Achievement for his work at WNYC. You can e-mail Andy at alanset@nypublicradio.org.
Andy Lanset appears in the following:
'Andy in the Archives' - Contralto Marian Anderson
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Better Late Than Never: A Talk WNYC Censored in 1934
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Opening of the Fiorello H. La Guardia Telecommunications Center
Friday, December 11, 2020
Paul Robeson Heard Over WNYC During WWII
Thursday, December 03, 2020
Lola Hayes and "Tone Pictures of the Negro in Music"
Monday, August 31, 2020
1938 WNYC Clock Radio Alarm
Sunday, August 16, 2020
"WNYC Mobilizes For Harlem Emergency"
Saturday, August 01, 2020
A Brief History of How the NYPD Polices Protests Against Police Brutality
Friday, June 19, 2020
WNYC Airs Frank Talk on Racism in 1939
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
When Anti-Lynching Legislation was Discussed on WNYC in 1938.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Public Radio's First Program Distribution Network is Born at WNYC
Friday, May 29, 2020
1937 Vision: WNYC, The Flagship Station of a Non-Commercial Cultural Network
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Elaine Lambert Lewis and Folk Songs for the Seven Million
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
Diane Wolkstein and Stories From Many Lands
Monday, March 23, 2020
Andy in the Archives
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
'Andy in the Archives'
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Andy in the Archives: February 28 in NYPR History
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
Andy in the Archives
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Andy in the Archives: Malcolm X
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
