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Jim Briggs III is the senior sound designer, engineer and composer for Reveal. He supervises post-production and composes original music for the public radio show and podcast. He also leads Reveal's efforts in composition for data sonification and live performances.
Prior to joining Reveal in 2014, Briggs mixed and recorded for clients such as WNYC Studios, NPR, the CBC and American Public Media. Credits include “Marketplace,” “Selected Shorts,” “Death, Sex & Money,” “The Longest Shortest Time,” NPR’s “Ask Me Another,” “Radiolab,” “Freakonomics Radio” and “Soundcheck.” He also was the sound re-recording mixer and sound editor for several PBS television documentaries, including “American Experience: Walt Whitman,” the 2012 Tea Party documentary "Town Hall" and “The Supreme Court” miniseries. His music credits include albums by R.E.M., Paul Simon and Kelly Clarkson.
Briggs' work with Reveal has been recognized with an Emmy Award (2016) and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards (2018, 2019). Previously, he was part of the team that won the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma for its work on WNYC’s hourlong documentary special “Living 9/11.” He has taught sound, radio and music production at The New School and Eugene Lang College and has a master's degree in media studies from The New School. Briggs is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Do officials need to reconsider their approach to building where the risk of wildfire is highest?
Last October, more than 170 wildfires ripped across Northern California. It was the deadliest fire incident in the state’s history.
On Jan. 25, 2018, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists edged the “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight – one step closer to a potential nuclear apocalypse.
Since 2000, a quarter-million black Chicagoans have moved out of the city. We’re taking a close look at those challenges in this week’s episode.
In dozens of cities across the country, lenders are more likely to deny loans to applicants of color than white ones.
Bernard Madoff may be a fading memory from the past, but for reporter Steve Fishman, the fallen financier’s story holds lessons for today.
As the #MeToo movement sweeps across Hollywood, Washington and the world of media, it’s easy to ignore the sexual abuse of women in low-profile jobs.
Reveal investigates government policies that let people build in harm’s way, make it difficult to move them to safety and fail to tally the dead.
This week, we look into places that offer sanctuary to those immigrants – and what the conflict between federal and local policies means for them.
We’re commissioning raps about President Trump’s proposed border wall. Here’s how to share yours.
