Phyllis Joffe


Phyllis Joffe was an American radio and television producer, journalist and educator. She was a regular contributor to the NPR programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She taught journalism at Columbia University [Graduate School of Journalism] in New York City, as well as at Wesleyan University and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
Joffe managed the video production company Video NewsReal, through which she co-produced and co-directed the 1978 documentary film Seabrook 1977 with Robbie Leppzer. From 1994 until her death, she co-produced radio poetry readings and interviews for the Connecticut-based Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, alongside writer Nancy Cobb and sound technician David Budries.

Education

She graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned a master's degree in child psychology from Southern [Connecticut State University].

Death

Joffe died on August 17, 2002, in Astoria, New York, from cardiac arrhythmia.