Sarah Turner
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| Sarah Grace Turner | |
 Sarah Turner
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| Born | November 14, 1978 Beloit, Wisconsin |
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| Occupation | Academic, Organizer, Speaker, Journalist |
| Spouse | Benjamin Manski |
Sarah Grace Turner (born November 14, 1978) is an American journalist and media critic. An advocate of media democracy, and an American democracy movement. Turner emphasizes community-owned and independent media.
As a Pacifica radio reporter with WPFW-Washington DC, WIBA-NYC, KPFA-Berkeley, and WORT-Madison, Turner provided on-the-spot coverage of many recent anti-corporate protests, including the FTAA protests in Quebec City and Miami, the IMF protests in Washington DC, and the RNC and DNC national conventions in 2004. Her written work has been published in the Miami Herald, Washington Post, Wisconsin State Journal, Z Magazine, Counterpunch, and the Liberty Tree Journal. Turner worked as a producer of public radio's [Jean Feraca]'s "Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders."
Sarah Turner is currently working on her master's thesis in the Department of Life Sciences Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[edit] Youth
Sarah Turner was born in Beloit, Wisconsin on November 14, 1978 to Andy Turner and Cheryl Ann. Sarah lived most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin, with a few years in Fond du Lac and Beloit. She attended Janesville Parker High School, and graduated from Fond du Lac Goodrich in 1997. Turner attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she studied psychology and sociology, and became a leader in campus labor activism. She was a columnist for one of the campus newspapers, the Daily Cardinal, and hosted a talk show for UW student radio station, WSUM.
[edit] Education and early career
Education:
- B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
Early career: After graduation, Turner remained involved in radical politics, working with the labor unions, IFPTE and AFSCME, and the anti-war group Code Pink. She went on to a career in journalism, covering social movement events for Free Speech Radio News, Worker Independent News, Democracy Now, as well as the Wisconsin State Journal, Isthmus, among others.
After a year as a graduate student and teaching assistant at George Washington University in D.C., and three years split between Washington D.C., Manhattan, and San Francisco, Turner returned to Wisconsin in the Autumn of 2005.
[edit] References
- Turner, Sarah. "Cashing In On Patriotism", Counterpunch Magazine, October 25th, 2001.
- Pliner, Joanna. "Chancellor signs new LTE policy", The Badger Herald, October 4, 2006.
