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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Charles Rangel: a legacy interview. He has been a congressman representing Harlem and the Bronx for more than 43 years. Congressman Rangel gained n...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Margaret Haney, a Professor of Neurobiology in Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Substance Use Research Center at the Columbia University Medic...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:20
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Robert Lipsyte was a sports and city affairs columnist for The New York Times and host of an Emmy Award winning program on Channel 13, the PBS stat...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Seth Redniss, Reporters without Borders
Seth Redniss is the lawyer for Reporters Without Borders, the French based organization dedicated to defending the world's most important freedom, ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:58
Caption: Sam Schwartz - world traffic expert
Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for coining the term, Gridlock. As New York City's traffic commissio...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
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Kim Ann Curtin, known as The Wall Street Coach, has written a book, Transforming WALL Street, a Conscious Path for a New Future, that she hopes wil...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 30:43
Caption: Lacey Schwartz
Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock, ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:59
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Victoria F. Pratt, the Chief Judge of the Newark,New Jersey Municipal Court, has won an international reputation for her efforts to reform the crim...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:09
Caption: Steven Pagones
In 1987, Steven Pagones, a former assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York was accused of being one of six white men who raped and ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 30:03
Caption: James Reiss
James Reiss has written six books of poetry. His critically acclaimed work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, Th...

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
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Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousan...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
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Yukie Ohta has created a Soho Memory Project in New York City to educate the throngs of visitors who have turned the one time haven for mafia landl...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, debunks the theory that African American fathers are disinterested parents. Pardl...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Kim Friedman,one of Hollywood's most successful woman television directors, is the Instagram sensation known as Crazy Jewish Mom. Her credits inclu...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Ed Kashi is a photo journalist whose sensitive lens has captured the racial profiling in Europe, the turmoil in Syria and Iraq, the West Bank, the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Michele Bratcher Goodwin's investigative research in human trafficking, the black market for body parts, reproductive rights, the politics of organ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Martin Garbus is one of America's fiercest fighters for free speech. He has represented some of the most prominent names in culture media and polit...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Roma Torre is the Emmy Award winning anchor of Time Warner Cable's NY1 news and the theater critic for NY1 On Stage. She has used her celebrity to ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:05
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Dr. Michael Crane directs the World Trade Center Health program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that treats the devastating medical ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Ken Thompson made history in 2013 when he became the first African American to be elected Brooklyn District Attorney. He won international attentio...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:06