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Blakeney Schick

Associate Producer, The Leonard Lopate Show

Blakeney joined the show as an intern in the fall of 2004, before becoming an Associate Producer in 2007. She contributes to the "Underreported" series and keeps an eye on national and international politics, and produced the year-long "States of the Union" series during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Blakeney went to Bowdoin College, where she studied Government and Spanish.

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Blakeney Schick appears in the following:

Things We Learned This Week

Friday, May 04, 2012

A collection of the unexpected, somewhat random things we learned on the Lopate Show this week.

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Conversations with the 2012 Tony Nominees

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

The nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday, May 1, and you can hear Leonard's conversations with many of this year’s nominees. (You can find a full list of the nominees here.) The awards will be presented on June 10.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, April 27, 2012

Our weekly roundup of the quirky, profound, and unexpected things we heard on the Lopate Show this week.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, April 20, 2012

A collection of the touching, funny, and off-beat things we heard on the air this week.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, April 06, 2012

A collection of the odd, wonderful, and even funny things we learned on the Lopate Show this week.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, March 30, 2012

A roundup of the interesting, strange and profound things we learned on the Lopate Show this week.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, March 23, 2012

A collection of the random, profound, true, and funny things we heard on the show this week.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, March 16, 2012

A roundup of the random, interesting, and unexpected things we learned on the show this week.

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Suspected Members of Anonymous Arrested

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Federal court papers that were unsealed on Tuesday revealed that six suspected hackers who are affiliated with Lulzsec, part of the hacking collective Anonymous, had been arrested. The papers also revealed that one of them, Hector Xavier Monsegur, had pleaded guilty to 12 counts of criminal hacking and had been working as an informant for the FBI.

You can find out more about how Anonymous and LulzSec organize and carry out their attacks by listening to Leonard’s interviews earlier this year with Quinn Norton, who’s covered Anonymous for Wired Magazine’s Threat Level blog.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, March 02, 2012

A collection random facts, insights, and impressions from the Lopate Show this week.

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Author Alice Munro on the Lopate Show

Friday, February 10, 2012

Every month, as part of the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club's e-newsletter, we're bringing an author interview from our archives. This month, listen to a rare 2002 conversation that Leonard had with Canadian writer Alice Munro. She had just published her short story collection, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, February 10, 2012

The Lopate Show's week in review.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, February 03, 2012

A compilation of the random, unknown, and maybe important things we at the Lopate Show learned during the week of January 30.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, January 20, 2012

The Lopate Show's week, in review.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, January 13, 2012

The Leonard Lopate Show's week in review.

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Things We Learned This Week

Friday, January 06, 2012

The Lopate Show's Week in Review

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On Reading Lists

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

A producer explains how working on the Lopate Show makes managing her reading list pleasantly complicated.

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The McRib Experiment

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

A Lopate Show producer wanted to see what all the fuss about the McDonald's sandwich was about. She found out.

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Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs and the Early Days of Apple

Friday, October 07, 2011

In the early 1970's, two high school students named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in an electronics class. The rest, as they say, is history. The pair went on to co-found Apple Computers, changing the way the world thought of the machines that few of us can do without. In 2006, Leonard spoke to Wozniak about founding Apple, prank-calling the pope, and his relationship with Jobs.

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Leonard's Conversations with This Year's Tony Award Winners

Monday, June 13, 2011

On June 12, the 65th Annual Tony Awards took place. Leonard has spoken to a number of the winners of the last few months and you can listen to those conversations by following the links.

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