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WCBS Signs Off After Nearly 100 Years On the Air

September 7, 2024

As my listeners may know, I left WCBS Newsradio 88 in November 2022, after the privilege of having broadcast on the iconic and historic station for 18 years. Working at WCBS had special meaning for me as I had grown up listening to the station. On August 26, 2024, Audacy, the parent company of WCBS, […]

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President Frank Wu, a Much Needed Ally of Byzantine & Modern Greek Center at Queens College CUNY

December 19, 2023

Center Makes Fundraising Push in Face of CUNY Budget Cuts In this second episode of the Podcast of the Center for Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies at Queens College CUNY, I speak with the College’s President, Frank Wu, who has emerged as an important ally for the Center as it deals with a cut-off of […]

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Reversing Greece’s Brain Drain

March 8, 2023

Demokritos Labs Director and Chairman Dr. George Nounesis is on a mission to bring scientists back Athens, Greece March 2023 As Greece works to recover from the devastating financial crisis of the last decade, one of its most vital tasks is to bring talented individuals back into the country to work and create opportunity for […]

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30. Learning Modern Greek

December 19, 2022

This inaugural episode of the Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Podcast from Queens College (CUNY) features Professor Gerasimus Katsan, director of the College’s Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and its assistant director, Professor Maria Athanasopoulou. They speak in both English and Greek with John Metaxas about the Modern Greek language, what it takes […]

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28. Americans Say Supreme Court is ‘Out of Touch’

October 6, 2022

September 30, 2022 Nearly six in ten Americans say the U.S. Supreme Court is out of touch with the country, according to the latest poll by Monmouth University. That opinion has crystallized in the months since the Court took away a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in its June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson […]

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27. New York’s Next Mayor Sets His Agenda: My WCBS interview with Eric Adams

November 16, 2021

Three days before Eric Adams was elected Mayor of New York, I had the opportunity to interview him live on WCBS during my news broadcast. In a few minutes, here, he outlines his vision for the city in the coming years.

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Winner of 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award

May 11, 2021

May 11, 2021 I am pleased to report that WCBS is this year’s Edward R. Murrow Award winner for Best Newscast from The Radio Television Digital News Association in Region 11 (New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania). I was privileged to co-anchor this newscast, which was a true team effort. Looking back at this newscast […]

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Covering the Debate Debacle #4 — ELECTION INTEGRITY

September 30, 2020

WCBS asked me to cover first the Presidential Debate from the station’s studios, where we maintain a severely limited in-person staff and a strict COVID protocol. I was tasked with reporting, writing and producing four 90-second reports for morning drive time. Each covers a different substantive slice of the debate and aired in a four-part […]

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Covering the Debate Debacle #3 — RACISM

September 30, 2020

WCBS asked me to cover first the Presidential Debate from the station’s studios, where we maintain a severely limited in-person staff and a strict COVID protocol. I was tasked with reporting, writing and producing four 90-second reports for morning drive time. Each covers a different substantive slice of the debate and aired in a four-part […]

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Covering the Debate Debacle #2 — COVID

September 30, 2020

WCBS asked me to cover first the Presidential Debate from the station’s studios, where we maintain a severely limited in-person staff and a strict COVID protocol. I was tasked with reporting, writing and producing four 90-second reports for morning drive time. Each covers a different substantive slice of the debate and aired in a four-part […]

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