Join us at Radio Central on Saturday, June 21, at 2:30 to hear from Russell Johnson from Connected Traveller. Russ will be speaking on:
How Radio Inspired My Wanderlust
When Russ Johnson first encountered a mysterious green blob on the map called Borneo as a ham radio operator at age 13, little did he know that Radio would inspire a career in broadcasting and take him to some sixty countries as a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Russ will share his radio and travel adventures through stories, recordings and pictures.
As a child, Russ listened to 50 thousand-watt voices from afar crackling through the speaker of the Bakelite radio in his room, heard the beeping signal of Sputnik, and became a ham operator (W6NFC). Following a career in broadcasting at WCCO, KOVR, KRON, KABL, and NPR, and teaching broadcast journalism at San Francisco State, he started a media production and consulting company that took him around the world for clients including the UN and American Express, and to the real Borneo, where he lay in a riverboat on the equator gazing at the stars of both hemispheres and musing about the mysteries of earth.
Russ’ groundbreaking web magazine, https://connectedtraveler.com, featured audio and video as early as 1994. It received coverage on CNN, CBS, the BBC, Time, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. In the 2000s, Russ created and streamed Connected Traveler Radio, a world culture and music radio station.
For nine years, Russ streamed Connected Traveler Radio, a world culture and music radio station, on his own invention, the World Vibrations Radio Station and Podcaster, a VCR-sized device which was touted in numerous publications as a means to “democratize radio.” It was adopted by colleges, school districts, music producers and recommended by UNESCO for use in developing countries.”
He is author of the travel memoir “Tales of the Radio Traveler” and hosts the humor podcast “Gone Astray,” with a book of the same name.
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