Katie Simon
Senior Producer, Jazz Night in AmericaKatie Simon is the Senior Producer for Jazz Night in America, a multi-media, nationally syndicated program produced by WBGO, NPR Music and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
She is the recipient of two Peabody awards, a Columbia-duPontaward, and three Emmy nominations for her work at the public radio project, StoryCorps. She got her start in radio as a stringer in the WBGO News Department and as a Production Assistant for JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She holds a graduate degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
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In the heart of the Ironbound section of Newark, in an old brick factory building, sits the Shifman Mattress Company. Shifman has been making mattresses…
