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Title:   The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
Participants:   Michelle Goldberg
In conversation with Sue Horton, Op-Ed & Sunday Opinion Editor, LA Times
Program Date:    4/14/2009
Program length:    1hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

An award-winning investigative reporter exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development.


Participant(s) Bio

Michelle Goldberg is an investigative journalist and the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, a New York Times Bestseller which was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. A former senior writer at Salon.com, her work has appeared in Glamour, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Guardian (UK) and many other publications, and she has taught at NYU's graduate school of journalism. The Means of Reproduction won the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award

www.kingdomcoming.com

Sue Horton is op-ed and Sunday Opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times. She previously served as deputy California editor at the paper, and as editor of the Sunday Opinion section. Before coming to the Times, she was editor-in-chief of the L.A. Weekly for six years. And before that, she was a journalism professor at the University of Southern California. She started her journalism career working for Community Information Project, an investigative reporting cooperative that did stories on contract with public television, 60 Minutes, Public Television, and a variety of newspapers and magazines. She is the author of a nonfiction book, The Billionaire Boys Club, which was the basis for an NBC miniseries. She has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Redlands and a Master's in journalism from USC.


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