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Michael Krasny: San Francisco
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Michael Krasny is an author and professor of literature at San Francisco State University. Host of KQED’s Forum program, Krasny’s numerous awards include a Meritorious Achievement in Radio award from Media Alliance, the S.Y. Agnon Award for Intellectual Distinction from Hebrew University, Human Rights Coverage award from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the George Knox Award in Journalism.
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Michael Krasny, the host of Forum, a news and public affairs program, interviews Callum Roberts (not pictured) in the KQED studio in San Francisco. Krasny has written a new memoir, titled Off Mike.
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On Monday morning, July 17, at 9 o'clock, Michael Krasny will interview Trudell Een, Smart Voter's Director, on his KQED Forum in San Francisco, 88.5 on your FM dial. His other two guests will be Kim Alexander, President of the California Voter Foundation, and Adelaide Elm of Project Vote Smart.
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Such intellectual versatility is what separates Michael Krasny from the horde of talk-radio hosts out there yakking on the airwaves. For 14 years at KQED (88.5 FM) in San Francisco (KQEI, 89.3 FM, in Sacramento), Krasny has elevated the discourse in a media genre widely known for demagoguery.
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Sixty-five thousand radio listeners in Northern California start their mornings with Michael Krasny. The host of KQED-FM’s "Forum" show, Krasny matches wits with Nobel Laureates, heads of state and Pulitzer Prize winners. And that’s just the beginning of a typical work day. When the on-air light goes off, Krasny heads to another demanding job as an English professor at San Francisco State.
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Upon graduation, Michael accepted an academic position at San Francisco State. The couple relocated here, leaving their midwest (Michael) and New York (Leslie) roots, amid trepidations at the time about “earthquake fault lines and having to go to great lengths to find a good delicatessen.”
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