Assistant Professor
Radio and Television Journalism
News Director, KBIA

409 Jesse Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200

• Phone: 573-882-3431
• Cell: 619-987-0719
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JANET SAIDI is an assistant professor of radio-television journalism and news director at KBIA, one of the most successful NPR affiliates in the country. After working for 10 years as a writer and producer, she came to KBIA in 2006 from California, where she was the associate producer for the four-hour series "Remaking American Medicine," broadcast nationally on PBS in October 2006. Saidi also co-produced and -hosted a nightly culture magazine on San Diego's NPR-affiliate station for three years. She has written for the Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Times and wrote a regular column, "Magazine Scene," about the magazine industry for the Books section of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Saidi spent nearly a decade living in England, where she earned a master's degree in literature from University College, London.