Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

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Conversations with Allan Wolper is an in-depth, face to face, 30-minute interview series with people whose ideas and lives are on the cutting edge of American society.

You will hear tales of Iraqi intrigue and urban conflict. Heart rendering stories of parents with special needs children. Intense discussions of race and religion. Investigative insights of historical significance. Cultural accounts of life on Broadway, Hollywood, and the media.

Allan Wolper is known as a "journalist's journalist." A superb interviewer, reporter, documentary producer and ethics columnist, he has been honored by every journalism medium. Wolper has won over 50 awards, including, television's prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award - The Pulitzer Prize of broadcast news. He won the National Headliner Award for his radio commentaries, and has been honored by The Medill Graduate School of Journalism at Northwestern University, The Pennsylvania State University, the New York Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists and the National Press Club for his ethics columns in Editor and Publisher Magazine. Allan Wolper is a Professor of Journalism at Rutgers - Newark University.

CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLAN WOLPER ON-AIR Tuesday at 7:30pm
www.wbgo.org/wolper


113 Pieces

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Lauren Thierry Watkins, a former television anchor at CNN finance, has produced a documentary on the lives of autistic children and their parents.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 31:39
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Allen, who played a major role in arranging a truce between The Bloods and The Crips

  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 35:21
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Steve Rubel of Edelman Worldwide is an expert on cyber communications and marketing. He brings listeners up to speed on what's happening with blogs...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:24
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Ron Kuby is a civil rights attorney who has spent his entire career representing the underdogs and underpriviledged in American society. Kuby expla...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 32:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Maurice "Mickey" Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, and a former political writer for the New York Times, tells how ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 31:48
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Natalie Bauman and her husband buy and sell rare books worth from one thousand to one million dollars. Ms. Bauman says the rare volumes contain unt...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 31:49
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Joel Simon, executive director of The Committee To Protect Journalists, says Mexican editors and reporters are assassination targets because of the...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2012
  • Length: 31:35
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Suggs provides a historical perspective of Harlem that is distinctly different from the guidebooks.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2009
  • Length: 31:47
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Friedman goes inside his son's head to write first person examination of Tourette's Syndrome

  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 33:31
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Reed talks about The Hemingses of Monticello, her award-winning book about Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemmings.

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 29:47
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Hear Layala describe how she went from teaching music at St. Helena Catholic to selling paintings for up to $20,000 at a prominent New York City a...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2009
  • Length: 32:40
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The marine reserve colonel is angry that scholars are involved in authenticating stolen Iraqi antiquities that terrorists use to buy weapons that a...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 30:30
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Rosenthal discloses how he handled a diplomatic flap with Barbra Streisand, what he thinks of media critics (not much)and takes on Hillary Clinton...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2009
  • Length: 35:11
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Roberts, played by Russell Crowe in the movie, is now a defense attorney, tells how drug dealers used publicity from the movie to sell their products.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2009
  • Length: 34:47
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New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson is a contender in the race for New York mayor.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2009
  • Length: 30:33
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Rachel Noerdlinger believes that the media and New York City's real estate interests promoting the sales of Harlem condos and co-ops are refusing t...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 33:00
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Fred Kaplan has spent a large part of his creative life in 1959...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 33:56
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Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch talks about how historians will judge him, why he has steadfastly refused to answer questions about his sexu...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 32:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Alicia C. Shepard, the Ombudsman for National Public Radio, has an impossible job.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 34:00