The Sperber Prize Podcast

By: Kevin Dineen
  • Summary

  • The Sperber Prize Podcast is a show highlighting some of the most influential reporters and journalists around the world through their biographies and autobiographies. Join us as we speak with Sperber Prize nominees to talk about their lives as reporters, their book-writing process, and the state of journalism. The Sperber Prize is given in honor of Ann M. Sperber, the author of the excellent biography of Edward R. Murrow, Murrow: His Life and Times (Fordham University Press). The book received numerous awards for its meticulous research and finely crafted writing and was a finalist in 1987 for the Pulitzer Prize. Through the generous support of Ann’s mother, Lisa, the prize was established to promote and encourage other outstanding biographies and memoirs related to the field of print and electronic journalism.
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Episodes
  • Dr. Alan Sperber Speaks About His Sister and The Sperber Prize Legacy
    Jul 20 2022

    Alan Sperber, MD, is the representative of the Sperber family on the Sperber Prize Jury, being the son of the donor of the prize, Liselotte Sperber, and the brother of the late Ann M. Sperber.

    For the final episode of Season 1, Alan came on the podcast to talk about his sister, her work on Murrow: His Life and Times, and the lasting legacy of the Sperber Prize.

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    18 mins
  • Kerri K. Greenidge and her book Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
    Jun 28 2022

    Kerri K. Greenidge is an author and historian specializing in African-American history, American political history, and African-American and African diasporic literature in the post-emancipation and early modern era.

    Her book Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (Liveright 2019) is a biography of Boston Guardian editor and activist, William Monroe Trotter. Black Radical explores the history of racial thought and African American political radicalism in New England at the turn of the century.

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    29 mins
  • Marvin Kalb and his book Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War
    Jun 14 2022

    Marvin Kalb, one of the original "Murrow Boys," was tasked with reopening CBS's Moscow Bureau during the outset of the Cold War. His book 'Assignment Russia' tells his personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news.

    Kalb spent years traveling across the Russian countryside, learning the intricacies of Russian nationalist ideology and news.

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    33 mins

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