Wednesday 10:00 – 11:00am
Callie Crossley is a woman for all media---commentator, public speaker, writer, broadcast journalist, and filmmaker. She is a weekly contributor for the radio program “NPR News and Notes” and a frequent commentator for other national radio programs including “On the Media”, and for national television programs such as CNN. Ms. Crossley is best known to Bostonians for her weekly appearances on the WGBH-TV media criticism program, “Beat the Press,” a nine year old award winning program examining local and national media coverage.
When not working as a commentator, moderator, public speaker and producer, Ms. Crossley serves as Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard directing the speakers program for the current class of Nieman Fellows.
Ms. Crossley is herself a frequently sought speaker, and has been quoted in some of the nation’s top periodicals including the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Newsweek. Her public speaking topics include the current state of the media, women and the media, race and media, media literacy, women’s leadership, young people and activism, social amnesia and the civil rights movement, the decline in civic engagement, documentary filmmaking, and most recently, the importance of libraries.