Ashley Sterner

Background

About Ashley Sterner

I'm a public radio person. I've dedicated my professional life to public radio, to public service through radio, and to serving the institutions that make public radio possible. Experience: On-air hosting and engineering. More than two decades of experience delivering news and hosting breaks live, on-air. Proficient in engineering my own board, and engineering network and live talk-show programming. Reporting and interviewing. Significant experience reporting and editing news stories. Currently conduct regular interviews for WYPR’s “Maryland Morning”. Have hosted live call-in shows on breaking news topics. Audio editing. Mastery in writing, recording and editing audio, for spots, stories, and hour-long programs. Proficient in Adobe Audition. Radio fundraising. Skilled in all on-air aspects of public radio fundraising campaigns, from pledge drives to online auctions. Significant experience in all types of script-writing and spot production, as well as live on-air pitching, pre-scripted and/or edited fundraising specials, non-pre-emptive giving campaigns of nearly every sort, online fundraising promotion, and more. Web / new media. Proficient in online content production, with experience hosting a news blog and maintaining daily web pages for news and other program content. Audience analysis. Skilled in analysis of Arbitron data (for both PPM and survey markets), and application of that analysis for station promotions, fundraising, and program production and development. Automation and public radio content distribution. Nearly a decade's experience with the ENCO automation system; some experience with DAVID. Significant experience with Content Depot and other forms of content distribution.