Annie Wu

Expertise: Digital news content, audio journalism

Education: University of California, Los Angeles – Bachelor of Arts
University of Maryland, College Park – Master of Arts

Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: The atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Experience:

Annie Wu’s career in public media began in Washington, D.C., at National Public Radio and WAMU. She’s been a general assignment reporter, a show producer, an editor, news director and now she leads Ideastream Public Media’s first digital content team focused on web, social media, newsletters and video.

Highlights:

• Working in public media journalism since 1995.
• First cohort of fellows selected for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative in 2019.
• Won a Gracie award from the Alliance for Women in Media in 2021.
• Produced an audio documentary, “The Orphan Train,” distributed by the then-nascent Public Radio Exchange that became PRX’s most licensed piece of 2004.

Why trust Ideastream Public Media?

The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.