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:
Christie R. Bohnsack: WNYC's First Director
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Civil Rights Music For King's Time, And Ours
Monday, January 16, 2023
WNYC: The Station That Dodged Bullets
Monday, April 25, 2022
William Warfield Live in the WNYC Studio
Thursday, February 24, 2022
WNYC's New Studios in 1937
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
French Philosopher Jacques Maritain Speaks Out Against Anti-Semitism Over WNYC
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Novik Tours Postwar European Broadcasters
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
An Award for WNYC, a Concert, and the Raised Hackles of a Times Reviewer
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
WNYC's 1979 Storytelling Festival
Monday, September 06, 2021
Einstein Listened
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Paul Strand on WNYC's Art In New York
Sunday, July 18, 2021
A Shorthand Contest on the Radio?
Wednesday, June 02, 2021
A 1939 Snapshot of WNYC
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Promoting Tidy Streets and Tidy Minds: The Junior Inspectors Club of the Air
Thursday, April 29, 2021
The McCarthys Step Out: A Police Safety Program
Thursday, April 08, 2021
Explorer Dentist Worries Big Sugar
Monday, March 22, 2021
Police Honor Men
Sunday, March 07, 2021
'Andy in the Archives' - Contralto Marian Anderson
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
