Amy Martin
Amy Martin
radio journalist
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Amy Martin is the founder and executive producer of Threshold, a public radio show and podcast that tackles one pressing environmental issue each season. Launched in 2016, Threshold has received a Peabody Award, a national Edward R. Murrow Award, and a citation from the Overseas Press Club, among other honors.

Amy is also the founder of Auricle Productions, an independent, nonprofit journalism organization, which serves as the home for Threshold.

Amy’s reporting has been heard on All Things Considered, Reveal, Here and Now, The World, The Takeaway and other programs.

In 2016-17, Amy was a Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She gave a TEDx talk at the University of Montana in 2015.

Amy was raised on an Iowa farm. She grew up listening to NPR on WVIK fm, the same station where she later got her first job in radio. She studied philosophy at Augustana College.

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THRESHOLD

 
 

ADDITIONAL WORK

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WHY THRESHOLD?

This is a pivotal moment in human history. The decisions we make now will define the next century, if not the next millennium. In the future, we’ll look back at this time and wonder how the people alive today could have talked about anything other than the health and well-being of our only home.

But now, as the tides literally begin to rise around us, the enormity of the changes can be hard to discern. Our lives are busy. We’re distracted. With millions of voices shouting (and tweeting) in our ears, it’s very difficult to hear the deeper rhythms at work. We don’t lack data — we consume mountains of information each day. What we lack is context and perspective.

That’s why I created Threshold. My goal is to make a show where listeners can learn without feeling preached to, empathize with people they didn’t expect to like, and imagine things they didn’t think were possible. I want to find and tell the complicated, beautiful, heartbreaking and fascinating stories of how humans relate to everything outside of our own species-centric bubble — all of this stuff we call “the environment.” I want to bring more people into the conversation, and transform scientific data into stories that live and breathe. I want Threshold to be a place for honest inquiry, deep thinking, and emotionally alive exploration of our relationships with the natural world.

I want to tell the truth about our environmental situation, and grapple with it.

- Amy Martin

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