Jake Shapiro's Bio

Jake Shapiro fell into the Public Radio world in a most serendipitous way. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in 1993, Jake worked on Christopher Lydon's mayoral campaign. When Lydon needed help in 2000 on his WBUR show, The Connection, Jake teamed up with him once again. An AIR member is born...

During those 7 years in between, Jake filled his days researching and developing website resources for the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies and the Davis Center for Russian Studies. For two years he was program coordinator for the Moscow Institute where he oversaw a program for American and European college and graduate students in Moscow. Not surprisingly, Jake is fluent in Russian.

After The Connection with Christopher Lydon ended its run on WBUR, Jake continued working with Lydon to help launch the Media Production Company, Lydon McGrath Inc. From there, he moved onto the Associate Director position of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he oversaw multiple projects related to intellectual property, distance learning, digital media, and Internet architecture, as well as holding responsibility for core strategic and administrative duties. He remains a Berkman Center Fellow.

Jake is also an independent musician (guitar and cello) and composer and co-founded independent record label L-Shaped Records, LLC, the artist networking site GigSwap.com, and the Boston rock band Two Ton Shoe.

Jake calls his most recent work at Public Radio Exchange (PRX) a "perfect mix of all his past experience." PRX is an online service for peer-review and digital distribution of public radio programming that creates a new web-based bridge between producers and stations in the manner of Henry Peirse's Global Radio News. Beta testing is currently taking place.

Audio
  Digital Libraries [intro] (00.59.6). Stream: DigitalLibraries.rm
  One Glass Eye [song] (05.06). Download: MP3 [4.7mb]