Jake Warga

Jake Warga

Independent Producer

Contact: Website

An award-winning Independent Journalist currently based in Ifrane, Morocco. With an M.A. in Visual Anthropology I bring a unique sensitivity and curiosity to the many cultures I visit around the world. With a microphone in one hand, a camera in the other, I collect stories for Public Radio and images for various outlets.


Jake Warga on KCRW

Two soldiers on the run in Vietnam take two drastically different paths, and a producer asks soldiers in Iraq, ''What's on your iPod?''

War and the Warriors

Two soldiers on the run in Vietnam take two drastically different paths, and a producer asks soldiers in Iraq, ''What's on your iPod?''

from UnFictional

There's a quick and violent event, followed by the rippling aftermath. Plus, an independent journalist's stream-of-consciousness telling of a street mugging, his own.

And Then What Happened?

There's a quick and violent event, followed by the rippling aftermath. Plus, an independent journalist's stream-of-consciousness telling of a street mugging, his own.

from UnFictional

More from KCRW

On this Martin Luther King Jr.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Mahershala Ali has worked for 20 years, earning Oscars for “Moonlight” and “Green Book.” But the new drama “Swan Song” is his first leading film role.

from The Business

As in past years , this is a list of favorite books of the year. Critics who use the term "best books" are not thinking.

from Bookworm

Actress and now director Maggie Gyllenhaal wanted to set her new drama “The Lost Daughter” in Maine, but New Jersey offered a better tax credit.

from The Business

Documentarian Jonas Poher Rasmussen long wanted to tell the story of his friend, who fled Afghanistan as a child and ended up alone in a Danish town.

from The Business

This year’s Golden Globe Awards will still happen in Beverly Hills, but with no red carpet and no media access. It will be a very pared-down, glamor-free ceremony.

from Hollywood Breakdown

Newly minted LA Opera conductor Lina González-Granados often works with young singers outside of performance halls and says the LA Opera does a good job of bringing music to other…

from KCRW Features

Writer Noah Hawley on how fiction can create empathy.

from The Treatment

When Bob Iger officially leaves Disney at the end of the year, he’ll be succeeded by Susan Arnold, the first woman and first openly gay person to lead the Disney board of directors.

from Hollywood Breakdown