Tamar Charney’s consulting company, Charney LLC, works with media outlets, industry leadership organizations, and national networks to ensure that communities have the journalism they need. Services include custom audio-storytelling workshops (with a specialization in training print journalists to work with audio), digital strategy and audience development training, one on one coaching, editorial guidance, facilitation, and strategic recommendations to leadership. 

Tamar’s work at the local, regional, and national level as a station-based programming and content leader, key national player in developing content for emerging platforms, and podcast creator gives her a unique viewpoint on how media, particularly public media can harness its power in the digital space.

At Michigan Radio, she was a newscaster, reporter, and editor before becoming Program Director. At NPR, she pioneered content on new platforms such as apps and smart speakers including NPR’s state of the art personalized listening app NPR One. Tamar was an executive creator of NPR’s Coronavirus Daily which was the network’s fastest growing podcast to date. During her years at NPR she led NPR One, the newsroom’s digital effort, NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network, and its cinematically produced history podcast Throughline in the work honored with a Peabody Award. In addition to leading Throughline she worked on NPR’s It’s Been A Minute and Code Switch and was part of the team that developed Life Kit.

Tamar holds a master’s degree in telecommunications specializing in social effects of new media from Michigan State University and a BA from University of Michigan. She was the lead author on the chapter Uses and Gratifications of the Internet in Lin, C & Atkin, D.(Eds.)  Communication Technology and Society (pp. 379-408.) 

She gives talks and presentations at industry conferences worldwide about the confluence of technology and journalism.