Producer Appreciation Weeks: Katerina Barton




The Takeaway show

Summary: <p>As part of our Producer Appreciation Weeks, Host Melissa Harris-Perry talks with the professionals behind the scenes who bring you the stories you value and the shows you love. </p> <p>Producer <a href="https://twitter.com/KaterinaBarton">Katerina Barton</a> revisits some of her favorite segments that she's produced throughout <a href="https://www.wnyc.org/people/katerina-barton/">the past two years</a> on The Takeaway:</p> <ol> <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/gordon-plaza-residents-fight-be-relocated-toxic-land">Gordon Plaza Residents Fight for Relocation from Toxic Land</a> <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/what-driving-truck-driver-shortage">What is Driving the Truck Driver Shortage?</a> <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/what-does-queer-mean">What Does Queer Mean?</a> <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/holiday-movie-prescriptions">Holiday Movie Prescriptions</a> <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/savannah-bananas-play-ball">The Savannah Bananas Play Ball</a> </ol> <p> </p> <p>Katerina joined The Takeaway as an intern in 2020 and came back as a temp producer in 2021, before she became an associate producer in 2022. She has produced nearly 300 segments for The Takeaway. Prior to joining the Takeaway, Katerina earned a duel master's degree at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism in Global &amp; Joint Program Studies: Journalism &amp; European/Mediterranean Studies Institute, worked as a reporter at a weekly paper in central Texas, and spent a year teaching English on a small island in Indonesia as part of a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship.</p> <p>Find her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/KaterinaBarton">@KaterinaBarton</a>.</p> <p> </p>