About the Documentary
Rachel Gotbaum, Reporter
Rachel Gotbaum is a special correspondent for WBUR-FM in Boston. She also hosts and produces webcasts for The New England Journal of Medicine and files stories for National Public Radio. Before coming to Boston, Gotbaum worked for KQED-FM in San Francisco. She has also covered Marin and Alameda counties for the San Francisco Chronicle. Gotbaum has filed stories for The New York Times, Marketplace, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Before becoming a reporter, Gotbaum sang jazz in Italy and gospel music in Oakland, CA. She has won numerous awards for her coverage of AIDS, stem cell research, ambulance diversion and the closing down of nursing homes. In 2007, she won a national RTNDA award for her radio documentary chronicling the history of Boston's old city hospital and the creation of the Boston Medical Center.
Gotbaum graduated from Wesleyan University and received a Master of Journalism from the University of California Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley.
She is an avid fan of food and cooking.
Anna Bensted, Executive Producer
Anna joined WBUR in 1999, serving first as Managing Editor for daily news before shifting to the production and editing for national distribution of Inside Out documentaries. During her nine years in this role, Inside Out has won a number of national awards, including the duPont Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, the Robert Kennedy Journalism Award for Radio and the Overseas Press Club Award for Radio. Prior to working at WBUR, where she is also Assistant Program Director, Anna garnered fifteen years of public radio experience in the UK where she worked for the BBC.
George Hicks, Technical Director, Studio Producer
Working at WBUR since 1997, George Hicks served as technical director for NPR's The Connection, Car Talk, Only A Game, On Point and PRI's Here & Now. Earlier, Hicks spent fifteen years as a freelance engineer / producer, recording diverse jazz and classical artists such as Stan Getz with the New England Conservatory Orchestra, Keith Jarrett with the Handel & Haydn Society, and The Klezmer Conservatory Band with Yitzhak Perlman. In 2000, Hicks plunged into long-form radio as technical director / producer of WBUR's Inside Out Documentaries. Inside Out has won many RTNDA, PRNDI and AP awards, as well as DuPont-Columbia, RFK Memorial, and Overseas Press Club honors. Recently, in an ironic turn to the (very) short-form, Hicks produced the first thirty-five weekly episodes of 11 Central Ave, the award-winning radio comic strip. In addition to composing and performing theme music for 11 Central Ave, Hicks also provided incidental music for Snakeheads and Slavery: Inside Out and Haunting the Quabbin: Inside Out.
Ibby Caputo, Production Assistance
Ibby Caputo is a healthcare journalist and an intern at Inside Out. Her work has been aired on The Cape and Islands NPR stations (WCAI, WZAI, WNAN) and on Wyoming Public Radio, and published in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic Journal-Constitution, The West Australian, the Jerusalem Post, and other national and international publications. Ibby graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 2007.
Jesse Costa Multimedia Producer
Jesse Costa studied photography, graphic design and multimedia production at the School at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Maine College of Art. His work has been featured in various publications, including Photo District News. Jesse joined the New Media Department at WBUR as Multimedia Producer in early 2007 and has been having a blast.