Alix Spiegel is an American public radio producer and science journalist.
10 Facts About Alix Spiegel
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Alix Spiegel is currently a senior audio editor for The New York Times.
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Alix Spiegel grew up in Baltimore, Maryland in a secular Jewish household.
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Alix Spiegel's father was the great-grandson of Joseph Spiegel, the founder of the Spiegel Catalog.
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Alix Spiegel's great-aunt was civil rights activist Polly Spiegel Cowan.
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Alix Spiegel played the violin from a very young age and initially considered a career as a musician.
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In 1995 Alix Spiegel began correspondence with the show's producer, Ira Glass, who took her on as an intern.
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In 1996 the show changed its name to This American Life and was picked up nationally by Public Radio International, by which time Alix Spiegel was producing pieces for the show.
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Alix Spiegel has appeared as an occasional contributor to This American Life until the launch of her show Invisibilia.
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Alix Spiegel's science reporting has been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker.