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Tara Westover’s memoir, “Educated,” has made its way to the number one spot on the New York Times bestsellers list.
She tells her story of being a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Albany Times Union Editor Rex Smith, and Cailin Brown, Chair of the Department of Communication at the College of St. Rose. On this week’s Media Project Alan, Rex, and Cailin talk about local news and what happens in communities that don’t have it, what just happened at the Denver Post, your letters about Sinclair, and much more.
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The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Legalizing Marijuana becomes a campaign pledge for a newly launched Democratic candidate for Governor, our political Observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the importance of the Working Families Party in the next Gubernatorial election, and we’ll visit a town […]
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Back in 2015, we ran an interview with actor Alan Alda about the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Since then, the center has been conducting workshops with scientists and other professionals around the country teaching the best ways to clearly communicate complex ideas. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk to the director […]
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WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action and Co-Chair of the Working Families Party.
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WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversationwith Ann Simmons, Veteran Foreign Correspondent, LA Times Global Development Writer and Editor, and The 2018 James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz.
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