Ben Calhoun

Ben Calhoun
Ben Calhoun at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards
Born	1979 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education	Oberlin College
Occupation	Radio Journalist
Notable credit(s)	Chicago Public Radio, National Public Radio, The TakeAway

Benjamin Chang Calhoun (born 1979) is an American radio journalist and a producer for the public radio program This American Life. He is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Calhoun has taught at Loyola University Chicago and given lectures at Northwestern University. He is best known for his work on Chicago Public Radio, and has contributed to NPR's Radiolab, Morning Edition´, All Things Considered, and Day to Day, as well as WNYC's The Takeaway.

Born in Milwaukee, Calhoun earned a bachelor's degree in English in 2001 from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where he was the station manager for WOBC-FM, the student-run and operated station on campus.

Calhoun began his journalism career when he joined Chicago Public Radio as an unpaid intern during the summer of 2000. He was later hired full-time, and was promoted from newsroom coordinator to deputy news director in 2003.

From 2004 until 2008, Calhoun helped direct election coverage for Chicago Public Radio. He routinely appeared on episodes of the Week in Review with Joel Weisman on WTTW-TV's Chicago Tonight program, where he provided commentary on current political news. Even though much of Calhoun's work appeared on Chicago Public Radio, where he focused on politics and government, it was featured by National Public Radio, the BBC Radio, the CBC Radio, Radio New Zealand, and other syndicated programs including The World.