Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

Series produced by Conversations with Allan Wolper

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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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Elizabeth Kiehner, co-founder of Thornberg & Forester, shakes people up with her digital designs and storytelling techniques. She works with corpor...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
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Sayon Soeun, once a child soldier kidnapped by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government which killed over two million people, returns to his homeland to s...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Best-selling mystery writer Michael Connelly is back to talk with Allan again. He's written a new book, Gods of Guilt, that is part of his Lincoln ...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Robin Steinberg is founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders, which represents people in the criminal and civil courts who can't afford...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:47
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Linda Stasi is a Sunday New York Daily News columnist who specializes in skewering celebrities and politicians. Stasi has won a prestigious Mystery...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:06
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Kathleen Jordan is finishing the memoir of her late father, Hamilton Jordan, who former President Jimmy Carter said was the man who devised the pol...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 30:09
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Walter Mosley is former President Bill Clinton's favorite mystery writer and one of the country's most prolific novelists. Mosley discusses Lift, a...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:53
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Wil Haygood's story on the front page of The Washington Post in 2008 about the late Eugene Allen, a butler who served eight U. S. presidents from H...

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:36
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Carl Locke, a detective in the internal affairs division of The New York City police department,is president of the Gay Officers Action League (GOA...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Choclatt Jared has played his bucket drums on 42nd Street, at the Grammy Awards, the Tony Awards, the Academy Awards, and on Saturday Night Live. H...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:13
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Bruce Cutler, one of the most flamboyant criminal defense lawyers in recent history, made his legal bones representing clients like the late Mafia ...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 30:17
  • Purchases: 2
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Judy Mauer is an international award winning New York street photographer whose lens captures three dimensional pictures of store mannequins and th...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 30:50
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Jeff Nunokawa is a professor of Victorian Literature at Princeton University. Nunokawa is known for his unique literary essays on his Facebook page...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:58
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Biddle Duke is the publisher of the award winning, Stowe Reporter, a weekly newspaper in Stowe, Vermont, an international ski destination, and the ...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:03
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Julio Medina's story is one of redemption. Medina spent 12 years in prison after he was convicted of running a major New York drug ring. But he ear...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 30:26
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Helen Benedict is a novelist and journalist whose book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women in Iraq, won the attention of the Pentagon and...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 30:02
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Ali Velshi, host of Real Money with Ali Velshi, on Al Jazeera America, is one of the world's most popular television business correspondents. The f...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 30:17
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Dawn Zimmer, the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, became a major political figure when her city was overrun by Super Storm Sandy. Afterward she allege...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:58
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John Matos, known professionally as Crash, is one of America's most important graffiti artists. His incredible climb from spray painting New York C...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:14
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Dr. Vanessa Neumann has won an international reputation for investigating the relationship between criminal and terrorist organizations from Colomb...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 30:14