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 – Basketball
Episode 46 – Sissies
Episode 105 – Take A Negro Home
Episode 110 – Mapping
Episode 123 – High Cost of Living
Episode 141 – Invisible Worlds
Episode 143 – Sentencing
Episode 149 – Bedside Diplomacy
Episode 155 – Hoaxing Yourself
Episode 164 – Crime Scene
Episode 169 – The Pursuit of Happiness
Episode 172 – 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
Episode 182 – Cringe
Episode 200 – Hearts and Minds
Episode 217 – Give It to Them
Episode 238 – Lost in Translation
Episode 251 – Brother's Keeper
Episode 266 – I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
Episode 268 – My Experimental Phase
Episode 293 – A Little Bit of Knowledge
Episode 324 – My Brilliant Plan
Episode 327 – By Proxy
Episode 333 – The Center for Lessons Learned
Episode 361 – Fear of Sleep
Episode 370 – Ruining It For the Rest of Us
Episode 372 – The Inauguration Show
Episode 386 – Fine Print
Episode 388 – Rest Stop
Episode 428 – Oh You Shouldn't Have (served as guest host)
Episode 429 - Will They Know Me Back Home?
Episode 432 - When To Fold 'Em
Episode 433 - Fine Print
Episode 434 - This Week 05.05.2011
Episode 442 - Thugs
Episode 475 - Send a Message
Episode 480 - Animal Sacrifice
Episode 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).