Stefano Kotsonis

Stefano began his career in broadcasting on the PBS current affairs program, The Kwitny Report, which was awarded the George Polk Award for Television Investigative Journalism. He moved overseas in 1989 to work as a freelance reporter and producer for the CBC, The European, USA Today, BBC, and others. He was named Amman Bureau Chief for CNN in 1991. He reported from the Caucasus, Middle East, Europe, and Africa, covering the Gulf War, Mideast Peace Process, the wars of Yugoslavia and the Somali famine. After returning to the United States in 1996, he reported for Reuters TV and produced TV documentaries, among them PBS’s “Islam: Empire Of Faith.” Since 2001, Stefano has worked in public radio, on WBUR’s Here & Now and On Point. Stefano first started playing guitar at 12, when he saw an older boy command the attention of all the girls at a wedding reception. The miracle is that he doesn’t play better after so many years of faithful love for the instrument.