About

For two decades, John Haas has worked at media powerhouses including NPR, Marketplace, and BiggerPockets. John developed and story edited the first season of the Peabody Award-winning podcast Buried Truths and later became its executive producer.

In 2023, John became Director of the BiggerPockets Podcast Network, which reaches millions of people monthly through six shows (including the #1 real estate podcast in the world) and three YouTube channels.

John started his media career in Washington, DC as a producer for two nationally-syndicated NPR shows—Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi and Talk of the Nation—then served as senior producer of the international affairs program America Abroad. He spent seven years in Los Angeles as national editor for Marketplace, regularly filling in as senior producer of Marketplace Morning Report. In 2014, he became news director for WABE in Atlanta and was promoted to Director of Radio and Television, while leading the podcast division and executive producing Buried Truths, Bottom of the Map, Political Breakfast, City Lights with Lois Reitzes and Closer Look with Rose Scott.

John also created and executive produced the national call-in show America Amplified: Life, Community, and COVID-19 and developed the nationally distributed series America Amplified: Election 2020. John’s innovation includes teaming up with NPR to executive produce the Georgia Senate Elections Special in January 2021, which aired live on hundreds of radio stations across the country.

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Awards

  • 2021 American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award (WABE podcast Buried Truths)
  • 2020 Radio Television Digital News Association’s National Edward R. Murrow Award (WABE podcast Buried Truths)
  • 2018 Peabody Award (WABE podcast Buried Truths)
  • 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism (WABE podcast Buried Truths)
  • 2014-2018 Atlanta Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists, Edward R. Murrow, and Georgia Associated Press awards for multiple WABE special series and documentaries, including What Defines Atlanta?, Atlanta Remembers: The 1996 Olympics, Gridlocked: What’s Moving Atlanta?, and Georgia’s New Cities
  • 2009 and 2011 Third Coast International Audio Festival awards for editing the Marketplace stories “Fidele Musafiri: Coltan Miner” and “The Five Percent Rule: The Military’s Use of Tobacco”

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