Christina Stella
Christina is available for
These days, I mostly produce long-form narrative audio, but my experience also includes broadcast features and interview shows.I also provide services in mixing, sourcing, fact-checking, field engineering, and investigative research.
- Fact Checking
- Editing
- Engineering
- Producing
- Recording
- Reporting
- Voice
- Writing
About Christina
I'm a radio reporter, editor, and producer based in Philadelphia, PA. But I'd say my career started in middle school with a tub of coffee ice cream.
Once I was old enough to be home alone, I'd get off the school bus, grab the carton of Mocha Chip from our freezer, and head upstairs to listen to The Moth Radio Hour in my room. The daily ice cream eventually left the picture; my love of audio did not.
My work has been heard nationally on NPR, Science Friday, BBC, and on public media stations across the country via America Amplified and Harvest Public Media. As a producer, I've been honored regionally and nationally by the Nebraska Broadcasters Association, the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association, the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters, the Asian American Podcasters Association, and the Public Media Journalists Association.
I currently provide soup-to-nuts producing and editing services for podcasts. Right now, my clients include Things That Go Boom (Inkstick Media/PRX), Us & Them (West Virginia Public Broadcasting/PRX), and The Children's Hour. I'm known for diving into any topic with reckless abandon, but I particularly love stories about food, agriculture, disability, and grey areas.
Christina's Portfolio
Meatpacking workers have been ordered back on the job to plants where COVID-19 cases had spread. While OSHA issued new safety guidelines, some wonder whether they protect workers or employers.
Lexington, Nebraska is just one of many rural communities that has long dealt with food insecurity. The global pandemic both intensified need in the town of 11,000 residents and presented new challenges in getting people food.
More than 12 percent of Americans, or 42 million people, need help getting enough food to eat. That help comes from a federal program called SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps. Today, SNAP gets caught up in political debates and election cycles.
On this Us & Them episode, host Trey Kay talks with three people, a retiree, a mom and a lawmaker who all say that nutritional support has made a difference in their lives.
An investigative radio documentary produced by Nebraska Public Media News reveals how residents of one community are putting up a big fight to save their small village from pollution.
In the mid-19th century, explorer John Wesley Powell observed what he called "a wonderful transformation": a dramatic and specific point at which the Eastern United States turns into the West, where green shifts to brown, humidity to dry air, fertile soil to barren dirt. Scientists today say climate change has pushed the variation nearly 150 miles to the east, putting new regions firmly into weather patterns that discourage the usual means of agricultural production.
America’s war on communism in southeast Asia dragged the entire region into the fray, and the impacts are still an ever-present danger. But here’s what we didn’t get into before: The legacy of that violence here — in our own communities.
Today, much of the nationwide push to preserve and highlight southeast Asian heritage is being led by a younger generation, raised in America by refugees. They’re opening restaurants, taking over family businesses… and embracing their own definition of true southeast Asian food.
Experience
Skills
- Mixing
- Tape Syncs
- Story Editing
- Scrubbing and Audio Editing
- Reporting
- Producing
- Interviewing
- Field Recording
- Field Producing
- Fact Checking
- Booking
- Audio Engineering
- Voiceover
Equipment
- I use a Zoom H5 paired with an AudioTechnica AT897.
Previous Work
- Reporter/Producer at Nebraska Public Media (08/2021)
- Associate Instructor at WHYY (06/2019)