| Mr. Rick Karr |
| Rick Karr is a television, radio and print journalist who specializes in examining technology's impact on culture. He's writing a book-length history of technology's impact on the aesthetics and economics of pop music called TechnoPop: How Technology Makes and Un-Makes Pop Music and developing the book as a public-television series. Karr is currently a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal’s PBS series Journal Editorial Report and culture and technology correspondent for the public radio show . He’s been teaching at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 2004. Karr worked for 12 years as a correspondent, host, and engineer for National Public Radio, and spent one year as media and technology correspondent for the PBS series NOW with Bill Moyers. His print journalism has appeared in The Nation, New Musical Express, Stereo Review, and elsewhere. He studied at Purdue University and the London School of Economics. He’s also a recording engineer, record producer, songwriter and founding member of the musical collective Box Set Authentic. |
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