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Niagara Peace & Dialogue Awards 2008
Media Award
Torey Malatia
President & General Manager Chicago Public Radio
Torey joined the staff of Chicago Public Radio in July 1993 as vice president of programming, soon appointed station manager in 1995. In 1996, he became president and general manager. He is the first non-profit leader ever to receive the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall Of Fame. In 1995, he co-founded, with Ira Glass, This American Life, a weekly radio series for which Glass and Malatia jointly received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1996. He has also received the 2003 Public Radio International (PRI) Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In 2001, he was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame as the first not-for-profit representative to receive this honor.
Under his leadership, Chicago Public Radio has developed its most significant national initiatives and programs including The Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2000, Sound Opinions, in 2005, Wait, Wait. . . Don’t Tell Me!, a co-production with National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. in 1998. In addition he has created numerous award-winning local programs, among them Metropolis, in 1994, Odyssey and Eight Forty-Eight, both in 1998.
Torey has an M.A. and B.A. in English Literature from Arizona State University and has done postgraduate work at the University of Toronto in Middle English literature at U of T’s Medieval Centre.
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