Scott Harris (radio journalist)

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Scott Harris is the co-founder and executive producer of Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine, a syndicated public affairs program broadcast on 40+ radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. http://www.btlonline.org

Since 1984 Harris has been the host of "COUNTERPOINT," a weekly public affairs radio program examining national and regional political, economic and social issues. http://www.wpkn.org http://www.whiterosesociety.org

From 1991 to 2002 Mr. Harris was the public affairs director at WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT

In addition he is the founder and past president of the Norwalk Nagarote (Nicaragua) Sister City Project (N/NSCP)http://www.sistercityproject.org which was organized in the city of Norwalk, CT in 1986. He organized community support to initiate a relationship between this impoverished Nicaraguan city and institutions and individuals in the Greater Norwalk, CT area. Activities have included material aid shipments, cultural exchange programs and reciprocal visits. He currently is a member of N/NSCP Board of Directors.

He currently serves as the program director of the NEON Men's Halfway House, a project of Norwalk Economic Opportunity Now http://www.neoncaa.org/. The residential program accommodates 27 inmates reintegrating into the community from prison.

From 1977 to 1983 Harris was a community organizer with the Connecticut Citizen Action Group http://www.ccag.net/, where he organized neighborhood, tenant groups and statewide issue campaigns for Connecticut's largest citizen activist group.

In 1983 and 1985 he served on the campaign staff of Norwalk, CT Mayor William Collins.

Since 1981 Harris has produced and written various pieces as a free lance print and radio journalist. He has contributed radio news segments to National Public Radio http://npr.org; Pacifica News http://pacifica.org; Free Speech Radio News http://fsrn.org, Making Contact http://www.radioproject.org/ and This Way Out http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/media/radio/thiswayout/.

He has written articles for E Magazine http://www.emagazine.com/, a national environmental journal, and Fairfield County Weekly http://www.ctnow.com/custom/nmm/fairfieldweekly/. Topics covered include an investigative report on Champion International's paper mill pollution on the Pigeon River, North Carolina; Rev. Moon's Unification Church's waterfront businesses in Gloucester, Massachusetts and interviews with musician Pete Seeger and Kenya's paleo- anthropologist Richard Leakey.

Harris received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts in 1977.