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WXXI/Finger Lakes reporter for the Innovation Trail.

I grew up listening to my father play bits and pieces of his favorite classical music while I went to sleep. I think that is why I liked to listen to it while I studied at the University of Illinois where I graduated with a degree in advertising. I have traveled to Israel on a youth scholarship and lived in South Carolina for five years where I worked for one of the first FOX - TV affiliates.

Growing up, my life could be summed up in one word...SPORTS. Football, baseball, basketball, and track (I learned golf later). At Central Catholic High we were 1976 state champs in football when I was a sophomore. In 1977 I started center field for Lafayette's first Colt World Series champion (baseball). Onto Ball State, where college football was much of my life. After I realized I was not going to play for the Yankees or Cowboys, I decided on a career in marketing.

Mark Stencel is managing editor for digital news. He is responsible for overseeing the journalism on NPR's website and other platforms and gizmos.

Alex Blumberg is a contributing editor for NPR's Planet Money. He is also a producer for the public radio program This American Life, and an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University. He has done radio documentaries on the U.S. Navy, people who do impersonations of their mothers and teenage Steve Forbes supporters. He won first place at the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival for his story "Yes, There is a Baby." His story on clinical medical ethicists won the 1999 Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) award for best radio documentary.