Callie Crossley

Callie Crossley
Occupation Broadcast journalist, radio and television
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Wellesley College
Notable work(s) Eyes on the Prize
Notable award(s) Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award Gold Baton, Academy Award nomination, Emmy Award

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Callie Crossley is an American journalist and host of "The Callie Crossley Show", a one-hour daily talk show on WGBH-FM, 89.7.[1] She talks with guests about local and national politics, public affairs, arts and culture. A television and radio commentator, moderator and public speaker, Crossley lectures on the collision of old and new media, media and politics, media literacy, and the intersection of race, gender and media.

She is a panelist on WGBH-TV's "Beat the Press",[2] and a frequent host of WGBH-TV's Basic Black. Crossley is a regular contributor on Public Radio International's The Takeaway (radio), and has guest hosted NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin, for which she also contributes commentary about wine. She is an occasional commentator on CNN's "Reliable Sources",[3] and appears regularly on Fox Morning News WXFT-TV. [4]

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Education

Crossley is a graduate of Wellesley College, and holds an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Pine Manor College, and a Cambridge College Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She received a Nieman Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Institute of Politics at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.[5]

Awards

Crossley produced 2 of the 6 hours in the series Eyes on the Prize, Show Four--"No Easy Walk" and Show 6--"Bridge to Freedom", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1988 during the 60th Academy Awards.[6]

Current activities

In addition to hosting her daily radio program, Crossley is the Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Visiting Lecturer, guest lecturing at colleges and universities about media, politics, and the intersection of race, gender and media.[7] She is a featured speaker on Forum Network, a public media service of PBS, NPR and Corporation for Public Broadcasting providing a free online video lecture series featuring the world's leading scientists, educators, artists and authors Forum Network. Crossley also serves as a judge for several major journalism awards- including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism[8] - and she writes the blog "The Crushed Grape Report."[9]

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