Craig Havighurst

About

Craig Havighurst is the music news director for WMOT Roots Radio 89.5 FM, the Americana radio station at Middle Tennessee State University. There, he interviews creative people and hosts The String on Sunday mornings. He’s written for The Tennessean, The Scene and NPR. He’s been a filmmaker, a political journalist and a public speaker/lecturer.He is the author of "Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City," which was published in the fall of 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. Between 2000 and 2004, Havighurst was a staff writer covering music and the music business for The Tennessean. For his feature writing there, he was the recipient of the 2004 Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism. As a freelance writer, Havighurst has contributed to The Oxford American, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Country Music Magazine, and No Depression. He was the lead writer and researcher on "Hairdos and Heartache: The Women of Country Music," which aired on the A&E Network in the spring of 2006, and his short documentary on the history of WSM radio for Nashville Public Television won a regional Emmy Award. Havighurst’s background as a writer, reporter, and editor dates back to 1990, when he began his career writing about politics and culture for Durham, North Carolina’s award-winning weekly The Independent and the Duke University daily, The Chronicle. Specialties: Interviewing; field recording; videography; video editing; writing