- Lynn Cullen
Lynn Cullen (born 1948 as Ida Lynn Miller) is a
radio show host in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania . She is currently onWPTT 1360, with the first hour of her broadcast taped for later showing on thePittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC).Cullen is noted as one of the few liberals on mainstream radio.Fact|date=April 2008
Cullen's reporting for
WTAE-TV from 1981 to 1992 garnered her numerous awards, including a 1991Emmy awardFact|date=April 2008, four Golden Quills for Journalistic Excellence from the Pittsburgh Press ClubFact|date=April 2008, and three Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcaster Awards for feature reporting.Fact|date=April 2008 She also received the Printer's Devil Award from Women in Communications for her ability to see humor in the world and to puncture the pompous among usFact|date=April 2008. In addition, theYWCA honored her for her rigorous work against racism and bigotry.Fact|date=April 2008 Her best TV work had a literate sense of irreverence that was unlike anything else in the Pittsburgh market at that time.Fact|date=April 2008Cullen hosted a radio talk show on WTAE Radio from 1987 to 1997 and was twice named "Best Talk Show Host" in Pittsburgh by the readers of both Pittsburgh Magazine and In Pittsburgh Newsweekly. Vectors Pittsburgh honored her as the 1997 Person of the Year in Communications, and the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition similarly honored her as its Person of the Year in 1997.Fact|date=April 2008
Cullen also hosted two weekly public television programs: the statewide award-winning quiz show The Pennsylvania Game and the prime-time public affairs program Cullen-Devlin on WQEX-TV.Fact|date=April 2008
The
Pittsburgh Post Gazette named Lynn one of Pittsburgh's fifty most influential cultural power brokers. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in American Media.Fact|date=April 2008Cullen has also authored a chapter in a college journalism textbook on live television news reporting and provides op-ed pieces for local print media.Fact|date=April 2008
Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1981, Cullen was a television anchor and reporter at the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. She attended the
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City,Northwestern University and theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison where she received her degree in journalism.She is the sister of author and
University of Michigan Law School professor William Ian Miller.The August 18, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that August 29, 2008 would be her last day on the air, becauseWPTT-AM would be switching to a new format. [ [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08231/905209-100.stm Radio talk host Lynn Cullen out at WPTT] , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 18, 2008]References
External links
* [http://www.amnewstalk1360.com/jocks/cullen.aspx Lynn Cullen's radio page]
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