Portal:Philadelphia/Selected biography/January 2008
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Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio. Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly yet often probing interview style and for the diversity of her guests. She has a reputation for researching her guests' entire lives and asking them about lesser known aspects of their early careers. After growing up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York she began her radio career in 1973 at WBFO in Buffalo, New York. She moved to WHYY-FM in Philadelphia in 1975 to host and produce Fresh Air which began being distributed nationally by NPR in 1985.