Brian Lehrer Biography
Brian Lehrer is an American radio talk show host on New York City’s public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour 2007 Peabody Award-winning program, The Brian Lehrer Show, features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues. He was formerly an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks and has been in broadcast journalism for more than 20 years.
The teacher was awarded B.A. Graduated from the State University of New York in Albany in Music and Mass Communications. He hosted a radio program while a student there on the WSUA college radio station, which has since become Albany’s WCDB. He maintains a Master of Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a Master of Journalism from the University of Ohio State. Lehrer and his two children reside in Inwood, Manhattan. In 2014, his wife died.
Brian Lehrer Age
He was born on October 5, 1952, Manhattan, New York, NY. He is currently 66 years old.
Brian Lehrer Net Worth
Formerly an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks, Lehrer has spent more than 20 years in broadcast journalism. He also hosts BrianLehrer. TV on CUNY TV, a weekly tech- and web-oriented television show. He has not displayed his total earnings, to be updated later.
Brian Lehrer Education
The teacher got B.A. Graduated from the State University of New York at Albany in Music and Mass Communications. He hosted a radio program while a student there on the WSUA college radio station which has since become Albany’s WCDB. He holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a master’s degree in Journalism from Ohio State University.
Brian Lehrer Wife
He married Victoria Ann, who was born on February 5, 2014, She was a loving mother of Nathan and Simon, and wife of Brian Lehrer passed away. She was a leader in the Spark program for substance abuse prevention in the New York City High Schools, a PTA president, volunteer at the Food Bank for New York City.
Brian Lehrer Wnyc
Brian Lehrer is the host of The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC Radio’s daily call-in program, covering politics and life, locally and globally. The show airs weekdays from 10am-noon on WNYC 93.9 FM, AM 820 and wnyc.org. The Brian Lehrer Show was recognized with a 2007 George Foster Peabody Award for “Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides.”
The New York Times called Lehrer a “master interviewer.” Time magazine called the program “New York City’s most thoughtful and informative talk show.” The Daily News calls it “cutting edge” for its extreme interactivity and creative use of the internet. Political guests have ranged nationally from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to Mitch McConnell and Kellyanne Conway, and locally from Chris Christie to Cynthia Nixon and beyond. Cultural guests have included Wynton Marsalis, Margaret Atwood, Junot Diaz, Judd Apatow, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yogi Berra, and so many others.
Lehrer is also a commentator on local and national issues on television and in print. He has appeared on TV channels including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Newschannel, C-SPAN, NY1, and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. He has written op-ed pieces for publications including The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday, and Slate. He also hosts a weekly television program on CUNY-TV, “Brian Talks New York.”
In addition to the Peabody, Lehrer has won numerous awards, including seven Associated Press New York Broadcasters “Best Interview” Awards since 2000 and “Best Talk Show” by the Garden State Journalists Association in 2009 and 2011. Lehrer has been a questioner in televised New York City Mayoral Debates for every election since 1997.
He has hosted his eponymous program, originally called On The Line, since its inception in 1989. Prior, he was an anchor and reporter for the NBC Radio Networks, and an award-winning author and documentary producer. Lehrer holds master’s degrees in public health from Columbia University and journalism from The Ohio State University and a bachelor’s in music and mass communications from the State University of New York at Albany.
Brian Lehrer The Brian Lehrer Show
Since its beginnings in 1989, Lehrer has hosted his show, initially called On the Line. The format is newsmaker interviews, combined with phone calls from listeners. Newsmakers are local, national and global, often writers on book tours or politicians in the metropolitan area, including senators from New York and most officials from New York, New Jer, and New York City.
Sometimes visitors are less-known news-affected people, such as inhabitants of Brooklyn on the site of gigantic residential projects, or neighbors of noisy night clubs in Manhattan. Housing, health care, transportation, education, and other governmental functions are common subjects; the arts; living experience in New York and the surrounding region; and international affairs such as the Iraq war
The New York Times is often used by teacher programs for leads and visitors. He attempts to keep a balance between problems as they impact listeners, and political pundit “horse-race” conversations. The show won a 2007 Peabody Award “for enabling reasoned discussion and opening it to everyone in earshot.”
Brian Lehrer CUNY TV shows
Until June 2015, Lehrer hosted a cable television talk show called BrianLehrer. TV (formerly Brian Lehrer Live) on CUNY-TV (New York City cable channel 75). A regional Emmy award (New York Emmy Awards) was nominated for the show in 2009. In September 2015, he started to host a fresh show called POTUS 2016.
Brian Lehrer Other work
In The New York Times, The New York Sun, Newsday, and the New York Daily News, and on Slate.com, Lehrer’s op-ed pieces have emerged. The NPR.org website also distributes his WNYC comments worldwide. In the Mayoral Debates of WABC-TV New York City in 1997, 2001, and 2005, Lehrer was a questioner. As a commentator on New York 1, WNET Channel 13, and CNNfn, he appeared on television.
In 2000, Lehrer was the recipient of the Associated Press New York Broadcasters ‘ “Best Interview” Award for an interview with a rape survivor, and in 2001 for his position as NYC radio moderator of the only main mayoral discussion between Michael Bloomberg and Herman Badillo. During his tenure as host of NPR’s On The Media, Public Radio News Dir named the domestic program “Best Weekly Show.”
Lehrer is also a winning author and producer of documentaries. He received the “Heart of New York Award” from the New York Press Club for his documentary on New Immigrants Immigrant New York: The Last 20 Years, and a “Best Books For The Teenaged” prize for The Korean Americans from the New York Public Library.
He is currently moderating several major public forums, including The Nation vs. The Economist series and the Harper Forum series, and has moderated or hosted major events for, among others, the American Museum of Natural History and the Westinghouse Science Foundation.
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