December 2: Madeleine Brand, Larry Mantle, Patt Morrison with Jim Newton
No Spins, No Script, No Easy Answers: Three Journalists Take Stock of a Tumultuous Year — and a World at a Crossroads
Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is an American broadcast journalist and radio host with more than three decades of experience in public media. She currently hosts Press Play, an award-winning daily news and culture program on KCRW-FM in Los Angeles, where she explores national, international, and local issues through a Southern California lens. Brand previously reported and anchored for National Public Radio (NPR), serving in roles that included correspondent, substitute host on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and co-host of Day to Day.
Larry Mantle
Larry Mantle has been the host of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR-member station KPCC, 89.3 FM, since April 1st, 1985. AirTalk is the longest-running daily talk show in Southern California.
Patt Morrison
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is, “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”
Jim Newton
Jim Newton is a veteran journalist, author and teacher. In 25 years at the Los Angeles Times, Newton worked as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, columnist and, from 2007 through 2010, editor of the editorial pages. Newton’s latest book, “Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead and an American Awakening,” is a biography of the Dead’s central figure as well as an extended reflection on the counterculture and its lasting impact on American life.