Bio

I’ve been a writer, award-winning journalist, podcaster, and international communications professional for nearly 20 years working in the U.S. and Europe. I am a proponent of cultural literacy, exchange, and understanding. I like to work for and with organizations looking to help build communities stronger, with a mission that respects the humanity of its clients and the potential of us all. I’m author of Kneading Journalism: Essays on baking bread and breaking down the news, published in 2023.

In January 2022, I began a global content leader role for a major professional services firm.

My past journalism work was published by, among others, NPR, the BBC, PRI, Deutsche Welle, Unabridged Press, and Swissinfo. I’ve also produced a vlog series on bread baking and storytelling, and I created the award-winning Faith Full Podcast

From November 2020, I’ve served as Co-President of the Board of Directors for the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association. In 2021, I was named a “NextGen Leader” by the German Marshall Fund, and attended the Young Professionals Summit at Brussels Forum.

Photo of Tony Ganzer taken by Laura Watilo Blake for Edible Cleveland.

In December 2021 I stepped away from the microphone after 8 years as anchor for the National Public Radio station in Cleveland, having overseen afternoons as the most listened-to day part. I was honored by the Ohio AP Media Editors as “Best Anchor/Host” for work in 2020.

I was also a founding member of a group of non-profits, academics, and globally-minded citizens to launch series of free conversations about global affairs, one of which was picked up by C-SPAN. 

From 2010 to June 2013 I was a Zurich-based correspondent for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s English-language service World Radio Switzerland.  I reported about a Swiss-Egyptian in revolutionary Cairohistory-making night flight of Solar Impulsethe future of Swiss banksthe reality of Swiss gun control; and I’ve interviewed bank CEOs and Nobel laureates.  

I earned an M.B.A from Youngstown State University, with an emphasis in digital marketing, and an M.A. in International Relations and World Order (with Merit) from the University of Leicester.  I earned my B.Sc. in Journalism from the University of Idaho.

My journalism work over the years received honors from  the Religion Newswriters Association (RNA); and garnered a second place National Headliner Award in 2017three Edward R. Murrow awards from the RTDNA in 2014; a third place National Headliner Award in 2014; five Edward R. Murrow awards in 2013; among others.

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Earlier in my career I worked for the NPR station in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a stringer for the regional Northwest News Network.

In 2008, I was awarded the Arthur F. Burns fellowship, spending two months with Deutsche Welle Radio in Bonn, Germany.  My major project compared U.S. and German guest worker realities by asking “Can a guest worker program work?” I returned to Germany in December that year to tour renewable energy sites, eventually leading to an in-depth series comparing Arizona energy policy to European practice.

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In 2009, I was awarded a Robert Bosch fellowship for young American leaders, sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The fellowship facilitated high-level meetings with world leaders and power brokers in major European cities. I worked with editorial teams at West German Public Radio WDR focusing on arts, culture, and immigrant communities.  At Bavarian Public Radio I worked with editorial teams with a daily talk show broadcast on radio and TV; with an immigrant-focused editorial team; and with the Munich editorial team. I even traveled to Oslo to offer analysis on U.S. President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize for WDR.  

In addition to radio, I like to bake bread; regularly play acoustic guitar and write my own music; I’m a former sailing instructor; I’m an Eagle Scout; and I hold multiple SCUBA certifications from PADI as a Rescue Diver.


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You might also like this from The Rotarian, of Rotary International, which published a piece about me in December 2011, prompted by a thank you note.

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