Frannie Monahan is a journalist and audio producer based in Boston, MA. She is currently a podcast producer for WBUR, where she launched and produces the station’s daily news podcast, The Common.
Previously, she worked with WBUR’s Project CITRUS, a Google News Initiative-funded project exploring the future of on-demand audio on emerging tech platforms. At CITRUS, Frannie focused on segmented broadcast audio and finding ways to make content originally made for radio more portable across digital platforms. With CITRUS she also helped develop, co-produced and hosted WBUR’s daily coronavirus news podcast, Coronavirus, Briefly. During her time at WBUR, Frannie also helped launch and worked as a producer on the Boston-area insert of NPR’s daily localized news podcast, Consider This.
Before WBUR, Frannie was also the associate producer of WGBH’s award-winning local news program Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. She has also worked for a variety of other radio institutions large and small as a producer and reporter, including NPR, KLCC and Citi FM in Accra, Ghana.
Germany-born and West Coast-raised, Frannie is a graduate of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication where she majored in journalism with a focus in audio. Outside of cutting tape, Frannie enjoys playing cello and milking goats on her family's organic dairy.
Photo by Jenna Sterner