Joe DeCeault

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Joe DeCeault is a producer for WBEZ’s award-winning weekday morning newsmagazine, The Morning Shift. He has been a full-time producer with the program since 2007 when it was called Eight Forty-Either, but has produced segments for the program since he began in early 2003.  His job includes working with the show’s contributors, and producing music, film and technology segments. He was also a finalist for the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Radio in 2008. Joe also provides production and editorial assistance to Filmspotting, a radio version of the popular weekly film discussion podcast that airs Saturday nights on WBEZ.

Before his position with The Morning Shift, Joe helped out with programs including Sound Opinions, and produced numerous weekend and music specials.

Prior to joining WBEZ, Joe was station manager and music director at Triton College’s radio station, WRRG 88.9 FM. There, he was an adjunct faculty member teaching radio.

Originally from Oak Park, Joe resides in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago.

Recent stories by this author

Fifth House Ensemble combine music with social media

Feb. 20, 2012
Less than a decade ago, social media forms like Facebook, Twitter and others were non-existent.  Yet today, they’re as ubiquitous as, say, music in our lives.  Both music and social media serve as narrative forms, in many senses.  And, each often play a role in our own individual (and

3 at 3: Survival in three parts with John Cochran

Feb. 15, 2012
Part 1 – Stop, Drop and Roll (but not necessarily in that order)Though I’ve been biking to work for (more-or-less) a year straight through, I wouldn’t call myself an avid bike rider.There are several different cultures within the bike rider world, but I don’t quite fit into any that

Eight Forty-Eight 12.28.10

Dec. 28, 2010
Producer Joe DeCeault guest hosts this special encore edition of "Eight Forty-Eight". First, regular film contributors Hank Sartin and Christy LeMaster talk film in Chicago in 2010.

The Soft Shop

Feb. 8, 2007
Music: Waylon Jennings - "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" It looks like a fabric store's going out of business sale. Piles of brightly colored materials, tangled knots of yarn, and heaps of shiny silver emergency blankets spill into the hallway of a cozy Humboldt Park apartment.

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