Conversations with Allan Wolper

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  Joel Simon - 11/6/2008 
  Joel Simon, executive director of The Committee To Protect Journalists, says Mexican editors and reporters are assassination targets because of their exposure of the massive drug dealings on American borders. Simon warns that violence against journalists is increasing around the world -- presenting a serious threat to democracies everywhere.

Allan Wolper
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Conversations with Allan Wolper is an exciting new podcast from WBGO News. Each month Allan chats with unique personalities whose ideas are on the cutting edge. Download the podcast or listen right here.

Allan Wolper is known as a "journalist's journalist." A superb interviewer, investigative reporter, documentary producer and ethics columnist, he has been honored by every journalism medium. Wolper has won over 50 awards, including, television's prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award. He won the National Headliner Award for his radio commentaries, and has been honored by Northwestern University, The Pennsylvania State University, the New York Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists and the National Press Club for his ethics columns in Editor and Publisher Magazine.

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  Janis Karpinski - 9/23/2008 
  Former Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, demoted in connection with the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, talks to host Allan Wolper out about what really happened and who is to blame for what she admits is a dark chapter in U-S Military history.
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  Natalie Bauman - 8/29/2008 
  Natalie Bauman and her husband buy and sell rare books. Allan Wolper sits down with Mrs. Bauman to see if the hundreds of book on his apartment shelves are worth anything.
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  Maurice Carroll - 7/9/2008 
  Maurice "Mickey" Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, and a former political writer for the New York Times, tells how polls are conducted, who the pollsters are, how they're trained and the impact they have on the presidential race.
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  David Fisher - 6/4/2008 
  Author-Journalist David Fisher talks about the celebrities he has written about and worked with..an incredible list that includes William Shatner, Muhammad Ali, George Burns, Johnnie Cochran and Joan Rivers.

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