JANET SAIDI is an assistant professor on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism and serves as the news director at KBIA 91.3 FM. From her post at the KBIA newsroom, Saidi works with and reports for National Public Radio and the BBC. Before joining KBIA, she wrote for the Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Times, and wrote a regular media column for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Saidi also worked as a producer on the four-part PBS health care series “Remaking American Medicine,” broadcast nationally in October 2006. Saidi’s public radio work began with “The Lounge,” a nightly half-hour culture magazine on San Diego’s NPR-affiliate station, which she co-hosted and co-produced for three years. Saidi lived for several years in England, where she earned a Master’s in Literature from University College, London (UCL).