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Fresh Air (CBC Radio)
''Fresh Air'' is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985. It is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show's host is Terry Gross. , the show was syndicated to 624 stations and claimed nearly 5 million listeners. The show is fed live weekdays at 12:00 noon ET. In addition, some stations carry ''Fresh Air Weekend'', a re-programming of highlights of the week's interviews. In 2016, ''Fresh Air'' was the most-downloaded podcast on iTunes. Overview The show began in 1975 at WHYY (then called WUHY), with Judy Blank as host. In September of that year, Terry Gross took over as presenter and producer; over 45 years later she remains its chief presenter. In 1985, WHYY launched a weekly half-hour edition of ''Fresh Air'', which was distributed nationally by NPR. The show began daily national broadcasts in 1987. The show is composed primarily of interviews with prominent figures in various fields, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interview
An interview is a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers.Merriam Webster DictionaryInterview Dictionary definition, Retrieved February 16, 2016 In common parlance, the word "interview" refers to a one-on-one conversation between an ''interviewer'' and an ''interviewee''. The interviewer asks questions to which the interviewee responds, usually providing information. That information may be used or provided to other audiences immediately or later. This feature is common to many types of interviews – a job interview or interview with a witness to an event may have no other audience present at the time, but the answers will be later provided to others in the employment or investigative process. An interview may also transfer information in both directions. Interviews usually take place face-to-face and in person but the parties may instead be separated geographically, as in videoconferencing or telephone interviews. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Davies (reporter)
Dave Davies (born February 14, 1953) is an American print and broadcast journalist. Early life and education Davies was born in Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1975. Career For 25 years, Davies was a reporter and columnist on government and politics for the ''Philadelphia Daily News''. From 1982 to 1986, he covered City Hall and other beats, and served as news director for one year. Davies became a senior reporter at public radio station WHYY-FM in 2010. He covers Philadelphia government and politics, and he produces enterprise reports on emerging city and regional issues for WHYY's multimedia news outlets. His blog, ''Off Mic'', is featured on WHYY's NewsWorks.org. Davies is also a regular fill-in host for Terry Gross on NPR’s ''Fresh Air'', heard on more than 500 public radio stations. He has also substituted for Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY-FM's ''Radio Times''. In 2003, he was offered the post of press secretary to Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell Edwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network Affiliate
In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network. This distinguishes such a television or radio station from an owned-and-operated station (O&O), which is owned by the parent network. Notwithstanding this distinction, it is common in informal speech (even for networks or O&Os themselves) to refer to any station, O&O or otherwise, that carries a particular network's programming as an affiliate, or to refer to the status of carrying such programming in a given market as an "affiliation". Overview Stations which carry a network's programming by method of affiliation maintain a contractual agreement, which may allow the network to dictate certain requirements that a station must agree to as part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Miller (radio Producer)
Daniel Miller is the co-executive producer of ''Fresh Air'', an interview-format radio program produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other n .... He began working on the program in 1978, becoming the senior producer in 1987. External linksAbout ''Fresh Air'' Year of birth missing (living people) American radio producers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-radio-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in Italian cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved international acclaim. He was the first Italian filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Director for ''The Last Emperor'' (1987), one of many accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, two David di Donatellos, a BAFTA Awards, British Academy Award, and a César Awards, César Award. In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He had previously received a Golden Lion, Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival. A protégé of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bertolucci made his directorial debut at 22. His second film, ''Before the Revolution'' (1964), earned strong international reviews and has since gained classic status, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Edelstein
David Edelstein (born 1959) is a freelance American film critic who has been the principal film critic for ''Slate'' and ''New York'' magazine, among others, and has appeared regularly on NPR's ''Fresh Air'' and '' CBS Sunday Morning'' programs. Over a long career, Edelstein has published more than 2000 film reviews. In 2021, Colin McEnroe called Edelstein "America's greatest living film critic". Career Edelstein became a journalist after graduating from Harvard University in 1981. He is often associated with close friend, fellow film critic, and iconoclast Pauline Kael. He is also credited with coining the term " torture porn," a genre to describe such movies as '' Hostel'' and '' Saw''. He has previously been a film critic for ''Slate'' (1996–2005), NPR's ''Fresh Air'' (2002-2018), ''New York'' (2006-2020), the ''New York Post'', ''The Village Voice'', and ''The Boston Phoenix''. His work has also appeared in ''The New York Times'' Arts & Leisure section, ''Rolling Stone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here And Now (Boston)
''Here and Now'' (stylized as ''Here & Now'') is a public radio magazine program produced by NPR and WBUR in Boston and distributed across the United States by NPR to over 450 stations, with an estimated 4.5 million weekly listeners. Schedule On July 1, 2013, ''Here and Now'' began broadcasting as a two-hour program with a "full rollover" (meaning the show broadcasts from noon to 4 p.m. ET) airing Monday to Friday and generally in the midday hours on its affiliate stations. The show covers U.S. and international news, and provides arts and culture coverage. ''Here and Now'' has three cutaways for newscasts: one from :04:00 to :06:00 past the hour, occupying a portion of the national five-minute newscast from NPR, and two one-minute summaries of national news headlines at 0:18:00 and 0:38:00 past the hour, produced and anchored in-house at WBUR. History ''Here and Now'' first began airing in 1998, when it was co-hosted by Tovia Smith and Bruce Gellerman. At the time, the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBUR-FM
WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University. It is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM and produces several nationally distributed programs, including ''On Point'', '' Here and Now'' and ''Open Source.'' WBUR previously produced ''Car Talk'', '' Only a Game'', and '' The Connection'' (which was cancelled on August 5, 2005). ''RadioBoston'', launched in 2007, is its only purely local show. WBUR's positioning statement is "Boston's NPR News Station". WBUR also carries its programming on two other stations serving Cape Cod and the Islands: WBUH (89.1 FM) in Brewster, and WBUA (92.7 FM) in Tisbury. The latter station, located on Martha's Vineyard, uses the frequency formerly occupied by WMVY."WBUR Buys Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Ward (writer)
Edmund Ward (November 2, 1948 – May 3, 2021) was an American writer and radio commentator, the "rock-and-roll historian" for National Public Radio, NPR's program ''Fresh Air'' from 1987 to 2017 and one of the original founders of Austin, Texas, Austin's South by Southwest music festival. Ward grew up in Eastchester (town), New York, Eastchester, New York. He attended Antioch College and began his music-writing career in 1965. He was on the staff of ''Crawdaddy!'' (1967), ''Rolling Stone'' (1970), and ''Creem'' (1971–1977) magazines and of the ''Austin American-Statesman'' and ''The Austin Chronicle'' (where he was honored as part of their annual "Restaurant Poll", lending his name to their "Ed Ward Memorial Sandwich" award). Ward wrote several books on the history of rock-and-roll and has contributed content, with Rashod Ollison, for the Public Broadcasting Service, PBS website for the documentary series ''Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Quah
Nicholas Quah is a journalist for Vulture and is the creator of the Nieman Lab newsletter Hot Pod News. Career Quah was the creator of the ''Hotpods'' newsletter. Quah worked for BuzzFeed in 2015 while writing the newsletter. Vox Media acquired the Hotpod newsletter in 2021 as part of plan to expand ''The Verge''. Quah had been running the newsletter for almost seven years. After ''Hot Pod'' was acquired by ''The Verge,'' Quah started working at ''Vulture''. Quah also hosts his own podcast called "Servant of Pod," which discusses the business side of podcasting. The show was a 2021 Webby Award honoree in the business category. Quah also wrote a book about the podcasting industry. Quah provided commentary on the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on podcast consumption. For instance, Quah noted that podcast downloads decreased in March 2020, but that in late April 2020 downloads began increasing again. Jim Epstein criticized Quah for supporting government funded public broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Chang
Justin Choigee Chang (born January 3, 1983) is an American film critic and columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times''. He previously worked for '' Variety''. Early life Justin Chang graduated from the University of Southern California in 2004. Chang first became interested in film critique while in high school because he found it fascinating that "two or three (or 40 or 50) intelligent people could watch a film and come away with completely different reactions to it." Career Chang began his career in 2004. He works for the ''Los Angeles Times'', and is a regular contributor to the NPR programs ''FilmWeek'' and ''Fresh Air''. Previously, he was hired at '' Variety'' magazine in 2004, and became a senior film critic for the magazine in 2010 before being promoted to its chief film critic in 2013. He is the author of the book ''FilmCraft: Editing''. Chang is the chair of the National Society of Film Critics and the secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. In 2014, he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg (June 1, 1945– August 11, 2020) was an American lexical semantician and author. In 2001 he received the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistic Society of America for his contributions to National Public Radio's ''Fresh Air'', and he has published a number of popular press books including '' Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Controversial Times'' (2004). Nunberg is primarily known for his public-facing work interpreting linguistic science for lay audiences, though his contributions to linguistic theory are also well regarded. Nunberg received his doctorate from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1977 for his dissertation, ''The Pragmatics of Reference''. Prior to his PhD, Nunberg received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied under William Labov. Following his education, Nunberg began working as a postdoctoral scholar at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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