32, Journalist
Why He’s Interesting: Ideastream producer and host Gabriel Kramer started at the company in 2015 after graduating from Kent State University. He now reports on topics of diversity and inclusion for audiences of all ages. “I got into journalism because I cared about community. I felt like communities are overlooked — stories about people of color are so overlooked — and I wanted to be able to help change those things.”
Pinoy Pride: Kramer’s father is a Medina native, while his mother moved to Northeast Ohio in the ‘80s from the Philippines. The journalist has embraced his Filipino heritage as a member of many local and national organizations, including the Asian American Journalists Association, the executive committee for the Cleveland Asian Festival and the OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates. He’s also the Ohio chapter president of the Filipino American National Historical Society and was chosen as a 2024 immersion delegate for the Filipino Young Leaders program.
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News for Kids: When Ideastream’s Rick Jackson retired in 2023, Kramer took over hosting the company’s 55-year-old children’s program, NewsDepth — where he shares current events in an educational format for young viewers. “NewsDepth is not the busiest part of my job, but it’s my favorite part of the job.”
Major Doc: For the past three years, a big chunk of Kramer’s workload has been producing a documentary about the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Cleveland’s annual celebration of authors whose recent publications look at diversity and racism. The documentary has been distributed nationally by American Public Television since the pandemic first disrupted the Awards’ in-person ceremony in 2020.
Trivial Pursuit: You can also catch Kramer every Tuesday night at Larchmere’s Academy Tavern, where he hosts a popular trivia series, featuring questions he writes himself.
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