Laura Flanders

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Laura Flanders
Flanders in 2015
Born (1961-12-05) 5 December 1961 (age 62)
London, England
Alma materBarnard College
Occupation(s)Journalist, author, broadcaster
PartnerElizabeth Streb
Parent(s)Michael Flanders
Claudia Cockburn
Websitelauraflanders.org

Laura Flanders (born 5 December 1961) is an English

broadcast journalist living in the United States who presents the weekly, long-form interview show The Laura Flanders Show.[1][2] Flanders has described herself as a "lefty person".[3] The brothers Alexander, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, all journalists, are her half-uncles. Author Lydia Davis is her half-aunt. Her sister is Stephanie Flanders, a former BBC journalist.[4] Actress Olivia Wilde
is her cousin.

Early life

Flanders is the daughter of the British

Barnard College of Columbia University in 1985 with a degree in history and women's studies.[6][7]

Career

A 2015 episode of The Laura Flanders Show with Cornel West

Flanders was founding director of the women's desk at the media watch group

CounterSpin, FAIR's syndicated radio program. In January 1993, she appeared on the ABC Good Morning America program as a spokesperson for FAIR to discuss how domestic violence increases during the annual Super Bowl
.

Flanders hosted the weekday radio show Your Call on

teleSUR, as a weekly program.[8] Flanders is a contributing writer for The Nation, and Yes Magazine and has also contributed to In These Times, The Progressive and Ms.
, magazine.

She has authored six books, including Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press 2007); Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), a study of the women in George W. Bush's cabinet; and a collection of essays, Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (1997). She edited "At the Tea Party...." (O/R Books 2010) and The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush (2004) and contributed to The Contenders, (Seven Stories, 2008) among others.

The Laura Flanders Show

In 2008, Flanders began hosting and executive producing The Laura Flanders Show. The Laura Flanders Show is a 30-minute news and public affairs show that explores actionable models for creating a better world by reporting on the people and movements driving systemic change. Its tagline is, "Where the people who say it can't be done take a back seat to the people who are doing it."[9]

The show originally aired weekly on Free Speech TV and teleSUR. In 2018, it became a coproduction of CUNY TV.

In 2019, The Laura Flanders Show was picked up for distribution by American Public Television, and in 2020, began airing on PBS stations across the United States, including in 20 of the country's top 25 television markets.[1][2]

Personal life

Flanders is a lesbian.[10] In 2019, she married her partner of 30 years, choreographer Elizabeth Streb.[10]

Flanders currently resides in Smallwood, New York.[11]

Awards

Award Year Organization
Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship for her work in independent media[12] 2019
Lannan Foundation
Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award[13] 2019 Women's Media Center
Urban Journalist of the Year[9] 2019 City Limits
Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media[14] 2019
Park Center for Independent Media
Most Valuable Multimedia Maker[15] 2018 The Nation Magazine's 2018 Progressive Honor Roll
Communicator of the Year[16] 2013 NY Metro Labor Press Council
Stonewall Award 2013 Stonewall Community Foundation

References

  1. ^ a b "Laura Flanders Show | Series Broadcast Times | NHPBS Schedule". NHPBS.
  2. ^ a b "THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW". American Public TV. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  3. GRITtv. Archived from the original
    on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2008.
  4. ^ a b "Cabaret Berlin – Exploring the entertainment of the Weimar era".
  5. ^ "The '90s Raw: Laura Flanders". Media Burn. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  6. ^ Scelfo, Julie (15 December 2011). "At home with Elizabeth Streb and Laura Flanders: A High-Level Collaboration on a SoHo Loft". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  7. ^ Feldman, Bob (26 October 2005). "Laura Flanders: Anti-War Radio Journalist". Toward Freedom. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Team". The Laura Flanders Show. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  9. ^ a b "About". The Laura Flanders Show. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Queer journalist seeks to cover 'laboratories of democracy'". The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  11. ^ Yakin, Heather. "At home in Sullivan County, broadcasting to the nation". Times Herald-Record. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  13. ^ "Laura Flanders Receives the WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award". Indie News Watch. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  14. ^ "The Annual Izzy Award". Ithaca College. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  15. ISSN 0027-8378
    . Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  16. ^ "1199SEIU Communicators Win Seven Award in Labor Contest". 1199SEIU. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

External links

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