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Pieter Jan BruggeGetting Down to Business
Ken Auletta, journalist and New Yorker staff writer, takes a look at how the pressures of business and the concern for the bottom line affect American journalism in his latest book, Backstory: Inside the Business of News. Pieter Jan Brugge’s new film, The Clearing, hinges on the abduction of an executive who is held for ransom by an employee. And Joanna Trollope tells the story of an adopted brother and sister who, as adults, go on a journey to discover their biological mothers.
Ken Auletta
New Yorker staff writer and journalist Ken Auletta dissects the forces influencing the media today in his latest book, Backstory: Inside the Business of News
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Pieter Jan Brugge
Dutch director/producer Pieter Jan Brugge discusses his new film, The Clearing, the story of an executive who is kidnapped and held for ransom by one of his employees.
Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope’s latest novel Brother and Sister follows two adult adoptees as they search for their biological mothers.
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Bill Richardson on Diplomacy
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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.
Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show
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NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.
Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System
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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.
Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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