Robin Wright
In conversation with Warren Olney, host, “To the Point,” and “Which Way, L.A.?” on KCRW-Santa Monica.
Robin Wright on the Future of the Middle East from Los Angeles Public Library on FORA.tv
Drawing on 35 years of reporting—through wars, revolutions and uprisings—one of America's most prescient journalists offers an insightful reckoning of the changes wracking the Middle East and their impact on its and America's future.
Robin Wright, who covers foreign policy for The Washington Post, has reported from over 140 countries for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times and others. She has covered a dozen wars and revolutions in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. She was named journalist of the year by the American Academy of Diplomacy and received the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs. Wright also won the National Press Club award for diplomatic reporting, the National Magazine Award for reportage from Iran in The New Yorker, and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative." The recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, Ms. Wright has been a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale, Duke, Stanford and others. A frequent television commentator, Wright is also the acclaimed author of The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran, Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam, Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World, and In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade.
Warren Olney is the host and executive producer of "Which Way, LA?" and "To the Point." " Which Way, L.A.?" is the signature daily local news program on 89.9 KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com. In fall of 2000, KCRW and Olney took his program to a national audience with To the Point, distributed by Public Radio International.
Olney and both of his programs have been honored with nearly 40 national, regional and local awards for broadcast excellence since its inception. Most recently, Warren received the Golden Mike Award for "Best Public Affairs Program," and Which Way, L.A.? was honored with the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award forBest Talk/Public Affairs Show. He is the recipient of Emmy Awards for reporting and anchoring, and Golden Mikes for investigative reporting. Olney served as co-anchor of KCET-TV's "Life & Times Tonight" from June 1999 to September 2000. His interviews, book reviews, articles, and columns have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Los Angeles Magazine, and California Journal, among other publications.
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