Phyllis Joffe

Phyllis Joffe (1943/1944 – August 17, 2002) was an American radio and television producer, journalist and educator. She was a regular contributor to the NPR programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.¹ She taught journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, as well as at Wesleyan University and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.¹

Joffe managed the video production company Video NewsReal, through which she co-produced and co-directed the 1978 documentary film Seabrook 1977 with Robbie Leppzer.² From 1994 until her death, she co-produced radio poetry readings and interviews for the Connecticut-based Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, alongside writer Nancy Cobb and sound technician David Budries.²³

She graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned a master's degree in child psychology from Southern Connecticut State University.¹

Joffe died on August 17, 2002, in Astoria, New York, from cardiac arrhythmia.¹