Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow (born March 9 1949) is a radio and television journalist who hosts National Public Radio's popular "Science Friday". He is probably best known on TV for hosting "Newton's Apple" which was an Emmy Award-winning television science program for children and their families.

Biography

Flatow was born in to a Jewish family in New York City where his first experience with a television news program was in his high school. In 1967, however, Flatow entered college to pursue an engineering degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1971. [cite news | url=http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/UBT-archives/18_ubtf01/classnotes/70s.html | title=1970s Classnotes| work=UB Today Alumni Magazine | date=Fall 2001 | accessdate=2007-09-25] He began working in radio at WBFO, in Buffalo, New York and his first news stories covered antiwar demonstrations and riots. Flatow's first science stories were created in 1970 during the first Earth Day. In 1971, he became the news director of WBFO.

Flatow was hired by the newly-formed National Public Radio in Washington, DC in 1971. There he covered the environment, health and medicine news, and technology stories. While at NPR, Flatow began to host the Friday edition of "Talk of the Nation" which became known as "Science Friday". From 1982 through 1987 he hosted "Newton's Apple", which originated at KTCA in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In 1991, he wrote and reported science and technology for CBS News' "CBS This Morning."He has written and host various PBS TV specials, including "Transistorized!"

Flatow is founder and president of TalkingScience, non-profit company dedicated to creating radio, TV, and Internet projects that make science "user friendly".

Honors and awards

*National Association of Science Writers member
*AAAS-Westinghouse Science Journalism Awards - Radio (1983)
*AAAS-Westinghouse Science Journalism Awards - Television (1983)

References

Bibliography

*cite book | last=Flatow | first=Ira | coauthors=Coale, Howard | title=Rainbows, Curveballs, and Other Wonders of the Natural World Explained | location=New York | publisher=William Morrow & Co | year=1988 | isbn=0688067050
*cite book | last=Flatow | first=Ira | title=They All Laughed... From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives | location=New York | publisher=HarperCollins | year=1992 | isbn=006016445X
*cite book | last=Flatow | first=Ira | title=Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature | location=New York | publisher=HarperCollins | year=2007 | isbn=9780060732646

External links

* [http://iraflatow.com/ Ira Flatow official website]
* [http://www.sciencefriday.com "Science Friday" official website]
* [http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Jan/hour1_011703.html Science Friday program on open-source software, including Wikipedia]
* [http://www.talkingscience.org TalkingScience web site]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100482 Ira Flatow Biography from npr.org]


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