Nancy Updike is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on radio programs including This American Life and All Things Considered and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, LA Weekly, The Boston Globe, and Salon.com.
Updike's work has been featured in the following episodes of This American Life:
Episode 13 – Love (autobiographical story)Episode 25 – BasketballEpisode 46 – SissiesEpisode 105 – Take A Negro HomeEpisode 110 – MappingEpisode 123 – High Cost of LivingEpisode 141 – Invisible WorldsEpisode 143 – SentencingEpisode 149 – Bedside DiplomacyEpisode 155 – Hoaxing YourselfEpisode 164 – Crime SceneEpisode 169 – The Pursuit of HappinessEpisode 172 – 24 Hours at the Golden AppleEpisode 182 – CringeEpisode 200 – Hearts and MindsEpisode 217 – Give It to ThemEpisode 238 – Lost in TranslationEpisode 251 – Brother's KeeperEpisode 266 – I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to HelpEpisode 268 – My Experimental PhaseEpisode 293 – A Little Bit of KnowledgeEpisode 324 – My Brilliant PlanEpisode 327 – By ProxyEpisode 333 – The Center for Lessons LearnedEpisode 361 – Fear of SleepEpisode 370 – Ruining It For the Rest of UsEpisode 372 – The Inauguration ShowEpisode 386 – Fine PrintEpisode 388 – Rest StopEpisode 428 – Oh You Shouldn't Have (served as guest host)Episode 429 - Will They Know Me Back Home?Episode 432 - When To Fold 'EmEpisode 433 - Fine PrintEpisode 434 - This Week 05.05.2011Episode 442 - Thugs Episode 475 - Send a MessageEpisode 480 - Animal SacrificeEpisode 526 – Is That What I Look Like? (served as guest host)
Updike won a Peabody Award in 1996 for her work as a producer on This American Life. She won the Edward R. Murrow Award for news documentary (2005), and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award (2004) for her hour-long documentary about private contractors in Iraq: "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help" (This American Life episode 266).
