Adam Ragusea
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| Born | March 22, 1982 Pennsylvania, U.S.[‡ 1] | |||||||||
| Occupation | YouTuber Professor of journalism (former) | |||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2010–present (first started producing food videos in 2017) | |||||||||
| Genre | Cooking, science journalism | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 2.14 million | |||||||||
| Total views | 524 million | |||||||||
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| Updated 15 November 2022 | ||||||||||
Adam Ragusea is an American YouTuber who creates videos about food recipes, food science, and culinary culture. Until 2020, Ragusea was a professor of journalism at Mercer University.[1][2][3]
Personal life[edit]
Ragusea grew up in State College, Pennsylvania.[3] Ragusea graduated from Penn State University.[‡ 2] Since mid-2021, he has lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife, novelist Lauren Morrill, and their two children. He previously lived in Macon, Georgia.[‡ 3][‡ 4]
Career[edit]
Journalism[edit]
Adam Ragusea was a journalist in residence at Mercer University from 2014 until February 2020.[4][5] Ragusea taught introductory and advanced journalism, and media production classes while still a professor at Mercer.[6] Before becoming a professor, Ragusea worked as a reporter for NPR and its affiliates. He was the longtime host of The Pub, a trade podcast for people in public media.[7] While working at Georgia Public Broadcasting, Ragusea was the Macon Bureau Chief and host of the local Morning Edition. Prior to working at GPB, Ragusea worked at WBUR-FM in Boston, and WFIU in Indiana.[8]
YouTube[edit]
Ragusea created his YouTube channel on February 12, 2010, and his first videos were food recipes, made with the intention of sharing with his friends.[9] His videos began to garner attention for his "straight-to-the-point" style that is influenced by his background in journalism.[10] He also cites SpongeBob SquarePants as an influence on his style of comedy, describing it as "edgy but fundamentally ... just a beam of bright sunshine."[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ Thomas, June (8 June 2020). "How Journalist Adam Ragusea Became a YouTube Star". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ↑ "How YouTuber Adam Ragusea Learned to Talk to the Camera | Working". Slate Magazine. 7 June 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eating Spicy Food Doesn't Mean You're Tough, says SCIENCE, retrieved 2022-10-02
- ↑ "How Adam Ragusea's journalism background helps him in his YouTube career". YouTube. February 12, 2020. Archived from the original on August 30, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rammohan, Janani P. (July 4, 2019). "Food videos bring Mercer professor millions of views". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The CCJ Team - Mercer University". Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Press Publish 13: Adam Ragusea on podcasts and the pessimist's case for public radio's future". Nieman Lab. August 19, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
- ↑ "Adam Ragusea". Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
- ↑ "Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ-TV. February 13, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ↑ "He was teaching at Mercer when a video he posted on YouTube went viral. Now, he's a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ. February 12, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ↑ Ragusea, Adam (July 2, 2019). "The professor that went viral". YouTube. Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Where I take a lot of inspiration from oddly enough is Spongebob Squarepants ... that show is like there's so much acidity in it, like ... it's edgy but fundamentally it's still just a beam of bright sunshine, you know, I want to be Spongebob upon the world.
Primary sources
In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):
- ↑ Ragusea, Adam (August 3, 2020). "Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)". YouTube.
I grew up in central Pennsylvania not far from where Milton Hershey lived, there's an amusement park there called Hershey Park.
- ↑ Ragusea, Adam (September 28, 2020). "How flash-freezing preserves food quality". YouTube.
That's doctor John Coupland, a food science professor at my alma mater Penn State
- ↑ "About".
- ↑ "Adam Ragusea on Instagram: "Greetings from Tennessee! Folks have been asking, so I figured I should clear things up and confirm that we did move to Knoxville a few…"". Instagram. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
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