Reese Erlich

Reese Erlich is a best-selling book author and freelance journalist who writes regularly for the Dallas Morning News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio and National Public Radio. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the prestigious Peabody (shared with others) [http://www.p3books.com/books/theiranagenda/abouttheauthor.php]

Erlich's history in journalism goes back 40 years. He first worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts, a national investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco from 1963 to 1975. His magazine articles have appeared in San Francisco Magazine, California Monthly, Mother Jones, The Progressive, The Nation, and AARP’s Segunda Juventud.

Erlich’s book, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, co-authored with Norman Solomon, became a best seller in 2003. His latest book, The Iran Agenda: the Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis, was published in October 2007 with a foreword by Robert Scheer. [http://www.warchildren.org/credits/reese.html] In a San Francisco Chronicle book review, Ruth Rosen wrote, “Some people are treated as pariahs when they tell the truth; later, history lauds them for their courage and convictions. Reese Erlich is one of those truth tellers.” [http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4572&catid=160&volume_id=254&issue_id=315&volume_num=41&issue_num=51] Erlich worked with Walter Cronkite on four public radio documentaries. Cronkite has written, “Reese Erlich is a great radio producer and a great friend.” [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/19/RVBRS4MH2.DTL&type=printable] Since 1995, Erlich has produced Jazz Perspectives for public radio stations and online through JazzCorner.com. Jazz Perspectives are produced features profiling jazz, blues and Latin musicians.

Erlich is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the Media.

Books

*Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Future of Cuba, Polipoint Press, Jan. 6, 2009.
*The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis, Polipoint Press, 2007
*Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You (co-authored with Norman Solomon), Context Books, 2003.

Major Radio Documentaries

* “Lessons from Hiroshima 60 Years Later,” one-hour radio documentary hosted by Walter Cronkite and distributed by Public Radio International.
* “Security Check: Confronting Today’s Global Threats,” 10-minute segment on drugs and small arms in Colombia• “Reaching for Peace in the Holy Land,” a half-hour documentary hosted by Walter Cronkite and distributed by Public Radio International.
* “Children of War: Fighting, Dying, Surviving,” a one-hour documentary hosted by Charlayne Hunter-Gault and distributed to over 200 public radio stations in the US, Canada and Australia.
* “The Russia Project,” a two-hour documentary hosted by Walter Cronkite, distributed to over 200 public radio stations.
* “The Iran Project,” a one-hour documentary hosted by Walter Cronkite, distributed to 170 public radio stations
* Produced two, one-hour documentaries on the life of Louis Armstrong as part of the Louis Armstrong Centennial Radio Project airing on NPR.
* One hour documentary on the life of Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes for NPR’s Jazz Profiles
* One hour documentary on the life of guitarist Jim Hall for NPR’s Jazz Profiles
* One hour documentary on the life Buddy Collette for NPR’s Jazz Profiles

Journalism Awards

* 2006 Peabody Award, shared with producers of Crossing East, a public radio documentary describing the history of Asians in the U.S.
* Clarion Award presented by the Association for Women in Communication for the public radio documentary “Children of War.” (2006)
* Second and third place from the National Headliner Awards in the Best Documentary and War Coverage categories (2004) for “Children of War.”
* Project Censored at Sonoma State University, eighth most censored story in America in 2002-3 for article “Hidden Killers” about U.S. use of depleted uranium.
* Depth reporting prize for broadcast journalism awarded by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (2002) for public radio documentary The Russia Project hosted by Walter Cronkite.
* Bronze World Medal in the national/international news category from the New York Festivals (2002) for The Russia Project.
* Second place in the Chicago International Film Festival's investigative reporting category (1996) for Erlich's TV documentary "Prison Labor/Prison Blues."

External links

* [http://www.p3books.com/books/theiranagenda/ The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis]
* [http://www.iranproject.org/credits/erlich.html The Iran Project (2002 radio documentary)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVtMWJL1v8Q Video of Iran speech at Google campus]
* [http://www.jazzcorner.com/innerviews/ Jazz Perspectives]