Callie Crossley

Callie Crossley
Occupation	Radio host, television personality
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Wellesley College

Callie Crossley

Callie Crossley is an Award winning American journalist and host of the Callie Crossley Show a one-hour daily radio talk show on Boston’s WGBH-FM, 89.7. She talks with guests about current events, local happenings, arts and culture, and water cooler buzz. The radio show is the latest chapter in the career of Crossley, whose past includes awards and accolades in broadcast journalism, documentary filmmaking, and television and radio commentary. She is a regular TV and radio commentator, moderator and public speaker, lecturing on the collision of old and new media, media and politics, media literacy, and the intersection of race, gender and media. Crossley is a graduate of Wellesley College, and holds an honorary Doctor of Arts from Pine Manor College, 2005 Doctor of Arts, 2005, and a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Cambridge College, 2009 Doctor of Humane Letters.

Crossley draws on her rich experience as an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker to offer commentary on the media for WGBH-TV's "Beat the Press" [1] as a regular Panelist, and on National Public Radio's Tell Me More with Michel Martin, [2], as frequent host of WGBH-TV's Basic Black [3], [4], The Takeaway, [5], and other outlets.

A former producer for ABC's "20/20,", abcnews.go.com/2020/ she now serves as Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Visiting Lecturer , guest lecturing at colleges and universities about media, politics, and the intersection of race, gender and media. Callie also serves a judge for several major journalism awards and is a wine enthusiast and commentator who writes the blog "The Crushed Grape Report" [6].

Honors

Producer of the Academy Award Oscar nomination www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_Academy_Awards nomination -nominated hour of the acclaimed documentary series "Eyes on the Prize," “Bridge to Freedom” (1965) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_the_Prize the six-part documentary first aired on public broadcasting stations across the country in 1987. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_the_Prize. The series has been hailed as more than just a historical document. Clayborne Carson, a Stanford University history professor and editor of the published papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., said that "it is the principal film account of the most important American social justice movement of the 20th century". Because of its extensive use of primary sources and in-depth coverage of the material, it has been adopted as a key reference and record of the civil rights movement. Callie has won nearly every top film and broadcast journalism prize, including a national Emmy Award Winner www.emmys.tv/awards, a Peabody Peabody Award winner www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Award, an Edward R. Murrow Edward R Murrow Award Winner, and the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia award (Gold Baton) Gold Baton Award Winner (Gold Baton).

Sources

• Callie Crossley website
• Callie Crossley at the Nieman Foundation
• The Callie Crossley Show on WGBH