Lynn Cullen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lynn Cullen is a radio show host in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently on WPTT 1360, with the first hour of her broadcast taped for later showing on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC).

Cullen is noted as one of the few liberals on mainstream radio, though in practice many of her views are closer to the center than the far left, and she's often critical of liberal extremists.

Cullen's reporting for WTAE-TV from 1981 to 1992 garnered her numerous awards, including a 1991 Emmy award, four Golden Quills for Journalistic Excellence from the Pittsburgh Press Club, and three Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcaster Awards for feature reporting. She also received the Printer's Devil Award from Women in Communications for her ability to see humor in the world and to puncture the pompous among us. In addition, the YWCA honored her for her rigorous work against racism and bigotry. Her best TV work had a literate sense of irreverence that was unlike anything else in the Pittsburgh market at that time.

Cullen hosted a radio talk show on WTAE Radio from 1987 to 1997 and was twice named "Best Talk Show Host" in Pittsburgh by the readers of both Pittsburgh Magazine and In Pittsburgh Newsweekly. Vectors Pittsburgh honored her as the 1997 Person of the Year in Communications, and the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition similarly honored her as its Person of the Year in 1997.

Cullen also hosted two weekly public television programs: the statewide award-winning quiz show The Pennsylvania Game and the prime-time public affairs program Cullen-Devlin on WQEX-TV.

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette named Lynn one of Pittsburgh's fifty most influential cultural power brokers. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in American Media.

Cullen has also authored a chapter in a college journalism textbook on live television news reporting and provides op-ed pieces for local print media.

Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1981, Cullen was a television anchor and reporter at the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. She attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin where she received her degree in journalism.

She is the sister of author and University of Michigan Law School professor William Ian Miller.