Lucius Pham
Video Production Manager & Studio One HostExpertise: Capturing and telling stories about Iowa news, music and politics through video and photography
Education: Drake University
Favorite Iowa Destination: La Juanita, Sioux City
Experience:
- Worked in production at Iowa PBS for award-winning programs including <i>Iowa Press</i> and <i>Market to Market</i>, among others
- Has captured national and local politics coverage, supported reporting of local cultural groups and more
- Directs and edits multi-camera broadcasts at live and recorded shows for IPR's YouTube page and other video platforms
- Directs visual and digital elements of IPR Studio One's "Artist of the Month" series
- Has interviewed national and local musicians including Dionne Warwick, flipturn, Ginuwine, McKinley Dixon, Armand Hammer, spill tab, Caleb Elliott, among others
- Received a 2024 first place PMJA Visual Storytelling award for <i>All Access: IPR's Music Magazine</i>
- Received the "Best Writing," "Audience Favorite" and third place Best Film of 2019 awards at the Des Moines 48-Hour Film Project
- Served as an editor and mentor for multiple projects with NPR’s Next Generation Radio
My Favorite Stories
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The long-time covergirl for Spotify’s “Bedroom Pop” playlist, Claire Chicha, AKA spill tab, joined IPR’s Lucius Pham in Des Moines to talk traveling the world, getting “loud and abrasive” and reckoning with her inner KLEPTO.
My Latest Stories
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Blvck Bunnie started THOT SQUAD as a joke. Now, it's anything but. Flint, MI's raunchy rap sensation reflects on her Iowa debut at Alternating Currents, providing catharsis and making music with her husband. -
The Minneapolis garage band’s second album This Movie Sucks is caked in pop-punk millennial nostalgia. Siblings and bandmates Austin and Taryn Durry discuss Durry's new record, its "secret track" and the biggest tour of their careers. -
The third iteration of Cedar Falls band Salt Fox's Lost Woods Music Festival on Sept. 27 brought hundreds together for music, lights and a trip around the Ferris wheel. -
The first ever Iowa City Songwriters Festival was all about celebrating the art of songwriting, and for both songwriters and music lovers, it was a success. -
The Studio One team's first ever visit to the Quad Cities' annual Alternating Currents Festival was everything we wanted in a festival and more, despite the brutal weather. -
Hinterland celebrated its 10th anniversary in an expanded location in St. Charles this year, bringing headliners Tyler, the Creator, Kacey Musgraves and Lana Del Rey. -
Teddy Swims, That Mexican OT, Mavis Staples, Riff Raff and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram were the stars of Saturday In The Park in Sioux City July 5. The free music festival marked 35 years of grandeur this summer. -
Lead singer Niko Kapetan talks about Friko's debut album, Where We’ve Been, how it works sharing drummer Bailey Minzenberger with three other bands, and how inspiration for their new song, "Hot Air Balloon," struck at 6 a.m. in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. -
The first-ever Chroma 63 Festival, held in June in Waterloo, was a bright spot in early summer and has us excited for what they'll do next year. -
The Chicago-based rapper’s newest album Magic, Alive! is an abstract jazz tour de force — featuring Iowans Teller Bank$, Bank$'s kids and Elizabeth Moen.
