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| Meet the Staff of Pacific Time |
Cynthia Gouw, Reporter and Producer
Cynthia Gouw is a three-time Emmy Award–winning television reporter who comes to KQED's Pacific Time from KPIX San Francisco's Channel 5 Eyewitness News. Prior to KPIX, she anchored the morning show and reported for KXTV Sacramento, served as the weekend anchor and weekday reporter at KDFW Dallas and performed as a fill-in anchor and reporter at KERO Bakersfield. She also served as a fill-in host on KABC Los Angeles' newsmagazine show Eye on L.A. She also hosted on E! Entertainment Television. At the beginning of her journalism career, she worked at Los Angeles' KPFK–Pacifica Radio as a newswriter.
George Lewinski, Series Producer
Lewinski began his broadcasting career in 1966 in his native city of Montreal. In a long stint with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he produced news and current affairs at the CBC's British bureau, then returned to Canada and served as foreign editor for the network's television and radio services. In 1986, he was appointed senior editor of World Report, the CBC's major newscast. Lewinski later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and began his 10-year term as foreign editor of Marketplace, directing the business program's foreign coverage during the end of Communism in Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the rise and fall of the "Asian Tigers." Marketplace's live broadcast from Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall received a New York International Festival prize for radio. Lewinski is also an instructor of radio reporting for University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
Nina Thorsen, Producer/Director
Prior to Pacific Time, Thorsen was an editor and producer for KQED Public Radio News. She was the deputy foreign editor of Marketplace alongside Lewinski for eight years. Thorsen began her career with Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. She later produced music programming for Minnesota Public Radio and worked in program development for Public Radio International. Thorsen is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in communications. She has won an award for her piece on the Japanese television show Iron Chef (Radio-Television News Directors Association) and an honorable mention for producing a series called "The Japanese Language: Bridge or Barrier" (Overseas Press Club).
Sydnie Kohara, Guest Host
Sydnie Kohara is a long-time TV producer, reporter and host. She has been most recently a host of CNBC's CNET News.com. She has also been its international correspondent in London, and covered markets from Frankfurt to Hong Kong, as well as Paris and other capitals. She was the anchor of CNBC's Asia Nightly News in Singapore. Her San Francisco roots extend to long periods with the ABC network and KGO-TV, where she also inaugurated the station's business show, Marketplace. She received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Reporting for coverage of the 1989 earthquake. A native of Louisiana, Sydnie Kohara graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Ceil Muller, Technical Producer
Ceil Muller started working in public radio while attending Antioch College in Ohio. She went on to National Public Radio, first as assistant producer for Folk Festival USA, then as engineer for NPR's New York City bureau. After leaving New York, Muller worked as technical director for the National Council for the Traditional Arts music tours. She moved to San Francisco in 1990 and began working for KQED Public Radio. Muller received the 2000 Clarion award and an award from the Los Angeles Press Club, among others. She covered the Society for International Development conference in Sri Lanka in 1979.
Raul Ramirez, Executive Producer
Ramirez, KQED Public Radio's news and public affairs director, is a veteran newspaper reporter and editor who has supervised KQED Public Radio's news and public affairs coverage since 1991. He is a former Freedom Forum Fellow in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii's Center on Asian and Pacific Studies. His stories on the journey of a Chinese immigrant family from Guandong Province to California for the San Francisco Examiner won the Thomas Storke award from the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
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