Jim O’Grady is a reporter, host, and editor at New York Public Radio and a contributor to Gothamist.
His work for broadcast has won two Edward R. Murrow Awards and multiple prizes from the Associated Press, New York Press Club, The Deadline Club, and the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) Contest.
His piece on the mechanics of gentrification in New York City for the podcast There Goes the Neighborhood won the 2017 PRNDI Award for Best Podcast Episode. And his episode on masculinity and Trump voters for The United States of Anxiety won the New York Press Club Award for Best Reporting About the U.S. Presidential Race.
His radio stories have also aired on National Public Radio, On the Media, The Takeaway, Latino USA, Only A Game, Studio 360, and MetroFocus.
O’Grady was a reporter for The New York Times for six years, before and after 9/11. He covered local and national news and was a contributor to the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning special section, “A Nation Challenged.”
He is also an accomplished live storyteller. O’Grady has won 14 Moth StorySLAMS and is a Moth GrandSLAM champion. His story about fake mobsters in Staten Island was featured on This American Life. His New York Times essay about telling effective stories to a live audience is taught in college classes.
He co-authored the biography, Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan. The New York Times praised the book as “an ambitious joint biography with wonderful material about the Berrigans’ father and the brothers’ rebellion against society and the church.” He reflected on Phil Berrigan’s legacy in this New York Times op-ed. His reflections on Daniel Berrigan after his death in 2016 appeared in Politico, America, and The Nation. O’Grady is also the author of the biography, Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor.
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Jim O'Grady appears in the following:
How Saints Can Help Us Sinners
Monday, September 16, 2024
'Straight Line Crazy' explores power broker Robert Moses' legacy
Thursday, December 01, 2022
Woman Who's Worked As Security Guard in Shelters Has Seen Homelessness From Both Sides
Thursday, November 04, 2021
20 Years Later: Post-9/11 Policing
Tuesday, September 07, 2021
9/11 and the Rise of the NYPD | PART ONE The Launch of the City's Police Department
Sunday, September 05, 2021
Advocates Decry Governor Cuomo for Barely Using Clemency, a Tool to Redress The Wrongs of Mass Incarceration
Monday, August 23, 2021
The Extras Of "In The Heights" On What The Film Means To The Community
Friday, June 11, 2021
Court Rules City Can Move Homeless Men From Upper West Side Hotel
Thursday, June 03, 2021
Brooklyn Comic Says Nets Are Borough's New Dodgers
Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Like Revivified Cicadas, Knicks End Playoff Dormancy
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Gracie Mansion Is A Free House - Why Don't Mayors Want To Live There?
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
New York City Libraries To Begin "Phase Two" Reopening May 10th
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Public Libraries Eye Next Phase Of Reopening … But Not Until May
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
On Cusp Of New Baseball Season, Reflections On Joy And Torment Of Mets Fandom
Thursday, April 01, 2021
As Covid Ravaged New York, Street Artists Fought Back
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
On Saint Patrick's Day, Irish Bars That Remain Still Struggle To Survive
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Twenty-Eight Years Later, Lessons From The First World Trade Center Bombing
Friday, February 26, 2021
Unemployed Musicians Rally Outside Governor Cuomo's Office To Call For More Aid
Friday, February 26, 2021
Immigrant Artists And Their Output Had Been Booming In New York ... Until The Pandemic
Friday, February 12, 2021
New York To Kickstart Performing Arts' Return With 300 Events In 100 Days
Monday, February 08, 2021
