Honoring the Journalists
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Jelani Cobb, dean of the Journalism School at Columbia University and a staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about the 2024 duPont-Columbia award winners, plus his latest political writing on why Republicans are still debating slavery and the Civil War.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ryan Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.7 | Coming up later this hour, New York City Council Speaker Adrian Adams. |
| 0:18.3 | We'll get her side of her dispute with Mayor Adams, no relation, over how much NYPD officers should |
| 0:24.9 | need to document their encounters with New Yorkers and will take your calls |
| 0:29.2 | from anyone who's had experience on the NYPD, current or past, and anyone who's had encounters with |
| 0:36.4 | the NYPD to help us report this story as the council considers overriding the |
| 0:42.0 | mayor's veto. This is the biggest point of |
| 0:44.0 | contention during the whole Eric Adams administration and Adrian Adams |
| 0:48.3 | administration leading city council. So we're going to get into it with the |
| 0:52.0 | speaker who is good enough to be |
| 0:54.0 | willing to come on and get into it with us and with you. So that and more with |
| 0:59.2 | Speaker Adams coming up. Also today, a call in for parents who subsidize your young adults finances. How much, |
| 1:08.6 | how come to what age, and how different from your parents and you there seems to be some generational |
| 1:15.0 | change going on so we'll get to that but we start here let's recognize |
| 1:20.4 | some of the best journalism of the last year. |
| 1:23.8 | Last night at Columbia University, |
| 1:26.1 | they handed out this year's DuPont Columbia |
| 1:28.5 | awards for excellent and excellence |
| 1:30.9 | in broadcast and digital journalism. Winners included ABC News. and New Hampshire Public Radio for its investigation into sexual misconduct at a local addiction treatment network. |
| 1:47.0 | The reporter even faced vandalism and other retaliation for her work. |
| 1:51.0 | The six hour Ken Burns Lin Novick documentary on PBS called |
| 1:56.0 | the US and the Holocaust and others that will mention as well. We will talk to |
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