Michael De Bonis
Digital Media ProducerMichael De Bonis develops and produces digital content including podcasts, videos, and news stories. He is also the editor of 星空无限传媒's award-winning project. He moved to Columbus in 2012 to work as the producer of All Sides with Ann Fisher, the live news talk show on 89.7 NPR News.
He began his journalism career at WBEZ in Chicago with a production internship at the station's daily news magazine show. In subsequent years, he worked as a reporter and producer on several projects including the pop music talk show Sound Opinions. In 2011, he was awarded the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for Excellence in Radio Reporting for his work as a producer on WBEZ鈥檚 science podcast Clever Apes.
Michael was born and raised in Rockland County, NY. He graduated in 2002 from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Philosophy. He lives in Clintonville with his wife and son.
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Curious CbusAt times when school levies and property tax relief are hot-button political issues, a persistent myth about Ohio Lottery profits and education tends to resurface. One listener asked 星空无限传媒鈥檚 "Curious Cbus," 鈥淲asn鈥檛 the state lottery supposed to replace property taxes as a method of school financing?鈥� -
Curious CbusLincoln Village is a neighborhood of modest homes just west of Columbus. The development started with one man's vision of a housing cooperative that would make home ownership more affordable while addressing the post-WWII housing shortage. -
Curious CbusCentral Ohio has an eventful history of labor movement activity including the founding of one of the nation's largest union organizations. -
Curious CbusThis election, many Ohioans will be voting on school levies. Education funding is a complicated and controversial topic, but one way to make sense of it is by using a quirky metaphor: it鈥檚 like baking a cake. -
Curious CbusOn September 24, 1979, Columbus-based CompuServe launched its online service for consumers. Its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online chat, digital newspapers and the ability to share and download files. -
Curious CbusColumbus and Franklin County Metro Parks officially opened the Quarry Trails Metro Park in 2021. The ambitious project transformed the abandoned Marble Cliff Quarry and one of the park鈥檚 main attractions is its waterfall, Millikin Falls. -
Curious CbusOne building on Naghten Street in downtown Columbus has black windows, multiple security cameras and no clear sign of what goes on inside. -
Curious CbusDr. Timothy Moore, a Columbus dentist, may have one of the biggest magic collections in the country. It includes posters and props that belonged to some of the most famous magicians in history. -
Curious CbusSundown towns were a form of discrimination and segregation prominent in the U.S. during the period after Reconstruction through the first half of the 20th century. The name comes from a warning鈥攚ith either an explicit or implicit threat of violence鈥攖hat people of color were not welcome in the area after sundown. -
Curious CbusFor decades, urban and suburban planners focused on cars rather than pedestrians when building infrastructure. Now Columbus and other cities are playing catch-up in adding safe sidewalks and shared-use paths.
