Denmark
Podcasting changed my life. Well, at least my career. As it has changed a lot of peoples use of audio and video. I have not only become my own broadcaster and media provider, I have seen podcasters grow huge audiences and communities around their podcasts. Podcasters know better than most people how important it is to engage their audience through social media. My goal is to help even more people succeed ind doing that. Audio is my passion, but video should also be podcast and more should take advantage of the growing number of smartphones and handheld devices with built-in iPods and other podcatchers.
Karin Høgh, Copenhagen, Denmark
Owner of PodConsult: http://podconsult.dk
Podcast: PodJournalen http://www.podblog.dk/podjournalen/
http://facebook.com/podconsult
Twitter @karinhoegh
Mail: admin.dk@podcast-award.eu
France
Eva Esztergar* is a journalist-writer in print and broadcast media, editor of “Journal Podcast” and the daily mail “Le Petit Journal de Monaco.”
She is a member of the Union of Francophone Press (Vice-President of the UPF Monaco, founding president of the Hungarian UPF) of 06 Mediterranean Press Club and Press Club of Monaco, a member of Mensa Riviera.
Primer: A like Animals, like Blue B (the Great), C as Heaven (also blue), D and E as Mother Nature as … etc. ERS
citations:
Excellence and competitiveness are perfectly compatible with honesty and integrity … (John Francis Jr., says Jack Welch)
Make your dream devour your life so that life does not devour your dream. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
* Pronounced without the “z”
Mail: admin.fr@podcast-award.eu
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
Ulli Harraß is Co-Founder of the EPA and “radioman”. For over 15 years he worked for public- and private stations in Germany. He is journalist, audio- and video-producer and owner of a small agency, which produces podcasts for companies. He believes that the future of audio-podcasting has just begun!
Mail: admin.de@podcast-award.eu
Italy
Martina Fantauzzo lives in Milan and works in a national italian radio as an author. She’s interested in podcasting since she wrote a research for an university, comparing podcasting of RTSI (radio of the italian part of switzerland) and podcasting of Radio RAI, the public italian radio service.
Mail: admin.it@podcast-award.eu
Netherlands
Maurice Zondag is host and producer of several podcasts. He started podcasting from his car in 2005 with the Daily Carcast, and the weekly indy music podcast the Sunday Sundown. A highly rated music podcast in the early days that was on the playlist of many pioneering podcasters and music producers.
He now hosts and produces 3 shows, where two are about Formula 1, one in his native language Dutch, and one in all favorite English (F1Cast), and one show about his hobby Virtual Sim Racing (CrashCastFM). The Dutch F1Cast has won the Dutch European Podcast Award in 2010, and came in 2nd overall. Maurice is a true ambasador of podcasting!
Mail: admin.nl@podcast-award.eu
Poland
Michel Mertens is Co-Founder of the EPA and a radio fan and producer. He is an awarded audio producer in the radio scene and worked for some private radio stations. As a huge black music fan he managed to start his own webradio back in the days where he produced at least 250 cinema podcasts in 3 years. He is a true born varsovian child. In 1985 he moved to Germany.
Mail: admin.pl@podcast-award.eu
Spain
José Antonio Gelado is a journalist and broadcaster who pioneered the diffusion of Internet and techonology at mayor spanish radio stations Networks (COPE and Cadena Ser). He launched one of the first online radio stations and the first podcaster in spanish with Comunicando.
He won the Best Podcast Award (2007) at 20blogs contest and the Personality Award (2009) in the European Podcast Awards.
Gelado has contributed to several books about podcasting and Web 2.0 and is frecuent speaker at conferences and workshops on podcasting. He works as Communication and Projects Director at Nxtmdia, tutor of podcasting at the Master of Corporate and Institutional Communication at the University of Alcala (UAH) and he analyzes the tendencies of teleworking and mobility world at the blog Oficina Móvil in a mayor spanish newspaper.
Mail: admin.es@podcast-award.eu
United Kingdom
Having worked for a long time on internet radio and podcasting projects, Dave Thackeray christened himself “The Podcast Guy”. A journalist (1996 vintage) passionate about all things audio, Dave spends most of his work time advising businesses how to use podcasting and internet broadcasting to connect more closely to their customer communities.
As UK Ambassador to the European Podcast Award Dave is focused on generating greater awareness of podcasting. Dave is passionate about demonstrating to private companies and charitable organisations how podcasting can create amazing levels of trust, engagement and loyalty among their customers.
Americans have said he sounds like Ewan Macgregor, but Dave is happy being known simply as ‘That Guy’.
Dave’s website is www.ThePodcastGuy.com and you can also connect with him on Twitter – @thepodcastguy.
