Radio Health Journal is an award-winning, contemporary radio magazine focusing on the latest in health, science, and technology. Featuring interviews with renowned medical experts, doctors, scientists, and professors, Radio Health Journal has a 25+ year track record of providing you with information you can trust. Radio Health Journal is currently airing on over 550 radio stations and available on your favorite podcast platform. Sign-up to become an affiliate here.
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Meet the producer & hosts
Reed Pence
Reed Pence has been reporting on medicine since 1983, when he became host/producer of the Associated Press Radio Network’s daily health feature. Since 1992, Pence has been host and lead producer of Radio Health Journal. His work has won numerous local and national awards. He was part of a team sharing the National Award for Enterprise Reporting from the Associated Press and is a seven-time winner of the Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club. Reed is a Kappa Tau Alpha honors graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Nancy Benson
Nancy is one of the founding hosts of Radio Health Journal when the program debuted in 1992. She continues to host the program to this day. A former news reporter/anchor for WMAQ radio in Chicago, she has won numerous awards for reporting. Since joining the faculty of the University of Illinois, where she is Professor of Journalism, Benson has also become heavily involved in training journalists internationally. Previously, she worked in Rome as a public affairs consultant with the United Nations World Food Program.
Shel Lustig
Shel began his career in informational radio programming at Chicago’s NPR affiliate, WBEZ, where he was a longtime host and producer of news magazine programs. At the PIA Radio Network, he produced Health Care and PIA Public Affairs before co-founding MediaTracks Communications. Lustig has won awards from organizations as varied as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Education Writers Association, and the International Radio Festival of New York.
