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Angie Coiro - In Deep Radio live at Kepler's Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 12:00 p.m. RSVP HERE. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Show starts promptly at 12:00 p.m!
Featured Guests: Samuel Freedman and Kerry Donahue, Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz
AIDS outed Jeff Schmalz. A rising star at The New York Times, Jeff had carefully kept his identity as a gay man hidden from his superiors to protect his career. But everything changed on December 21, 1990, when he collapsed in the newsroom and was then diagnosed with full-blown AIDS. Courageously, Jeff chose to report on the disease that was killing him and countless others. Dying Words is based on original interviews with Anna Quindlen, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Adam Moss, among other leading journalists, and it draws on Jeff’s own interviews with such figures as Bill Clinton, Magic Johnson, Mary Fisher, Larry Kramer, and Randy Shilts. “It is an important part of the story of the fight for LGBT equality in America that will come as a surprise even to many well-informed readers.” –Barney Frank
Kerry Donahue is director of the radio program at Columbia Journalism School. A former executive producer at WNYC, her work has also been heard on PRI, PRX, NPR, WNYC, WBGO, and Marketplace. She was an early podcast pioneer in her role as a producer of original content at Audible.com. |
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