Sarah Kramer is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and editor with a track record of creating compelling content across media and leading successful projects and teams.
Currently, Sarah is an independent producer, working in both video and audio. Most recently, she has developed, launched and produced both narrative and interview format podcasts, including "Getting Even" with host Anita Hill, from Pushkin Industries; "This is Jeopardy: The Story of America's Favorite Quiz Show" from SONY's Somethin' Else and the first slate of shows for BRICradio, BRIC’s podcast network. She has also consulted on audio strategy for ProPublica, leaving them poised to launch a show.
Her recent video work includes a documentary short on her father, “Period. New Paragraph.,” which premiered at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and a series of 20 documentaries for Time’s ambitious "100 Most Influential Photos" project, which included an exhibit and a live event. One of the pieces, Untitled (Cowboy) was also featured at LACMA. Sarah has also worked for Vanity Fair and independent production companies, developing documentaries.
She was formerly an editor, producer and reporter at The New York Times for nearly a decade where she created narrative-driven work across media. Sarah launched original interactive web series, reported and wrote front-page stories, and senior produced short documentaries, including a video “Where Everybody Can Play Together”which accrued 10 million views in less than a month. She won the paper's first Emmy for one of her web-based projects, “One in 8 Million,” setting a precedent for digital innovation.
Prior, Sarah was the second person hired at StoryCorps where she developed StoryCorps' signature style and sound and created award winning public media content. As the founding senior producer, she and her team produced and edited the first hundred weekly broadcasts for NPR’s Morning Edition (now one of the longest running series on any NPR news magazine); launched the weekly StoryCorps podcast (iTunes top 100 within one week of premiere); and created the first book, The New York Times’ bestseller “Listening is an Act of Love,” (Penguin 2007) and won the first StoryCorps Peabody. And as the second person hired, she launched the first StoryCorps recording booth, hired the first 12 person team of facilitators, the six-person production staff and was integral in the hiring of the first 80 staffers.
She is a winner of the Third Coast Audio Festival's Listener Impact Award and her past audio work was featured on Morning Edition, This American Life, Marketplace and All Things Considered. She launched her career in documentary films for PBS and HBO. Her early credits include field producer, associate producer and researcher on films, including the Sundance-award winning “Miss America,” the Emmy-award winning “In Memoriam: September 11, 2001,” and Ric Burns’ “New York: A Documentary Film.”
Sarah is a fellow of the Sundance Institute’s New Frontiers Program and has taught multiple courses at both The New School and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
