Jim O’Grady is a reporter, host, and editor at New York Public Radio and a contributor to Gothamist.
His work for broadcast has won two Edward R. Murrow Awards and multiple prizes from the Associated Press, New York Press Club, The Deadline Club, and the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) Contest.
His piece on the mechanics of gentrification in New York City for the podcast There Goes the Neighborhood won the 2017 PRNDI Award for Best Podcast Episode. And his episode on masculinity and Trump voters for The United States of Anxiety won the New York Press Club Award for Best Reporting About the U.S. Presidential Race.
His radio stories have also aired on National Public Radio, On the Media, The Takeaway, Latino USA, Only A Game, Studio 360, and MetroFocus.
O’Grady was a reporter for The New York Times for six years, before and after 9/11. He covered local and national news and was a contributor to the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning special section, “A Nation Challenged.”
He is also an accomplished live storyteller. O’Grady has won 14 Moth StorySLAMS and is a Moth GrandSLAM champion. His story about fake mobsters in Staten Island was featured on This American Life. His New York Times essay about telling effective stories to a live audience is taught in college classes.
He co-authored the biography, Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan. The New York Times praised the book as “an ambitious joint biography with wonderful material about the Berrigans’ father and the brothers’ rebellion against society and the church.” He reflected on Phil Berrigan’s legacy in this New York Times op-ed. His reflections on Daniel Berrigan after his death in 2016 appeared in Politico, America, and The Nation. O’Grady is also the author of the biography, Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor.
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Jim O'Grady appears in the following:
Public Libraries Eye Next Phase Of Reopening … But Not Until May
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
On Cusp Of New Baseball Season, Reflections On Joy And Torment Of Mets Fandom
Thursday, April 01, 2021
As Covid Ravaged New York, Street Artists Fought Back
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
On Saint Patrick's Day, Irish Bars That Remain Still Struggle To Survive
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Twenty-Eight Years Later, Lessons From The First World Trade Center Bombing
Friday, February 26, 2021
Unemployed Musicians Rally Outside Governor Cuomo's Office To Call For More Aid
Friday, February 26, 2021
Immigrant Artists And Their Output Had Been Booming In New York ... Until The Pandemic
Friday, February 12, 2021
New York To Kickstart Performing Arts' Return With 300 Events In 100 Days
Monday, February 08, 2021
The Jazzier Penn Station, In Newark, Gets A Makeover
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
As Whales Populate The City's Harbors Again, A Look At Why NYC Was Never A Whaling Town
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
There's More To Balto The Pandemic-Stopping Blizzard Dog Than You Know
Thursday, December 17, 2020
NYC's Non-Profit Arts Groups May See Some Financial Relief
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Other Covid Symptom: Struggling Arts Programs In The Public Schools
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
What's Gained and Lost When Santa Goes Virtual
Friday, November 27, 2020
Champagne and Soft Serve Ice Cream Flow in NYC Following Biden's Election
Sunday, November 08, 2020
Pro-Voter Group Promotes Truly Odd Political Bedfellows: The 2020 Election … And Joy
Friday, October 30, 2020
Veteran 'New York Times' Reporter Jim Dwyer Dies at 63
Thursday, October 08, 2020
New Podcast Looks at the Run Up to 9/11
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Blindspot
Saturday, September 12, 2020
What Led to 9/11
Friday, September 11, 2020
