ABOUT
Bill Healy is an award-winning investigative journalist.
He has produced two podcasts with the Invisible Institute in Chicago: “You Didn’t See Nothin” and “Somebody”.
“You Didn’t See Nothin” won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting, Peabody Award, Third Coast Award, National Magazine Award and IDA Award.
“Somebody” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting and won a Third Coast Award, National Magazine Award, IDA Award, Scripps Howard Award and Headliner Award.
For many years Bill edited StoryCorps for Chicago’s public radio station, WBEZ, where he also supported the Special Projects and Investigations Desk, crafting radio and multimedia series on the foster care system, race, drugs, and incarceration.
Over the course of his career Bill has worked on stories with NPR, the BBC and “This American Life”.
Bill won the 2024 Studs Terkel Community Media Award from Public Narrative for his body of work, which “combines deep narratives with investigative insight, spotlighting Chicago’s vital issues and shaping public understanding.”
His photojournalism has been featured in newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post, in magazines, as well as in books.
Prior to becoming a journalist, Bill taught fifth grade in Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens community and worked at a high school in the Pilsen neighborhood.
He has taught oral history at the University of Chicago, and regularly teaches documentary audio storytelling at Northwestern.
Bill graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Sociology and has two Master’s degrees from Northwestern - in journalism and in education.
He lives in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood with his husband Ben.
Contact :
billhealymedia@gmail.com
708-214-1065
@chicagoan