Producer, 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 a producer and anchor at KBIA, where her role also includes coaching and editing student reporters. Janet has worked for the past 10 years as a writer and producer. She joined KBIA from California, where she was the series associate producer for the four-hour PBS series "Remaking American Medicine," broadcast nationally on PBS in October 2006. Janet 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 as a books, culture and features writer, and wrote a regular column - "Magazine Scene" - about the magazine industry for the Books section of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Janet spent nearly a decade living in England, where she earned a Master's in Literature from University College, London (UCL). She is a self-described public-broadcasting egghead who got her start on the talent side very young - as a preschooler on PBS' "Romper Room."