Jerome Socolovsky

Jerome Socolovsky is NPR's Audio Journalism Trainer and the author of Sound Reporting (2nd edition): The NPR Guide to Broadcast, Podcast and Digital Journalism.

He’s been a journalist for so long that one of his first big stories was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Socolovsky has also been on the scene covering the Arab Spring protests in Cairo, the Balkan war crimes trials in The Hague, a civil war in Yemen, papal visits to Madrid and Havana and other world-changing events. He covered Spain and Portugal for NPR from 2002 to 2010 and has been editor on Morning Edition and the national, international and culture desks. He has also been a reporter for the AP, UPI and Voice of America and served as Editor-in-Chief of Religion News Service.

Socolovsky has received awards and honors from the Association of International Broadcasters, the Religion News Association and the Associated Church Press. He has graduate degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in public administration and religious studies. He speaks five languages in addition to his native English and Spanish, and long ago gave up a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania to pursue his true love: journalism. [Copyright 2025 NPR]