Everything about Ira Flatow totally explained
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
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. 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
Further Information
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