Callie Crossley is an American broadcast journalist and radio presenter in the Boston area. In March 2013 she began hosting a new radio program entitled ''Under the Radar with Callie Crossley'' and continues to contribute to WGBH Radio's "Boston Public Radio", where various commentators talk with guests about local and national politics, public affairs, arts, and culture.

Education

Crossley is a graduate of

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

class of 1973, and holds an Honorary Doctor of Arts from

Pine Manor College Pine Manor College (PMC) was a private college in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and was historically a women's college until 2014. It currently serves fewer than 400 students, many of whom live on the 40-acre campus. Origin ...

, and a

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Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She received a

Nieman Fellowship The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University awards multiple types of fellowships. Nieman Fellowships for journalists A Nieman Fellowship is an award given to journalists by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. ...

, and a fellowship from the Institute of Politics at the

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John F. Kennedy School of Government The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...

Career

From December 2010 through June 2012, she was the host of ''The Callie Crossley Show'', a one-hour daily talk show on WGBH-FM, 89.7. Past guests on ''The Callie Crossley Show'' include filmmaker Errol Morris, historian

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, authors

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, lawyer/author

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, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and many more. A television and radio commentator, moderator and public speaker, Crossley lectures on the collision of old and new media, media and politics, media literacy, and the intersection of race, gender and media. She is a frequent panelist on

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's ''Beat the Press'', and a frequent host of

's '' Basic Black''. Crossley is a regular contributor on

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's ''

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'', and has guest hosted

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's ''

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'' with

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, for which she also contributes commentary about wine. She is an occasional commentator on

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's ''Reliable Sources'', and appears regularly on Fox Morning News WXFT-TV.

Personal life

Callie Crossley, originally from

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...

, is a barbecue connoisseur with a southern heritage.Callie Crossley Biography
''The HistoryMakers'', April 23, 2013.

Awards

Crossley produced two of the six hours in the 1987 television documentary series ''

Eyes on the Prize ''Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement'' is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also ...

'', Show Four--"No Easy Walk" and Show 6--"Bridge to Freedom", which was nominated for an

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

in 1988 during the

60th Academy Awards The 60th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time Zone, PDT. During the ceremon ...

. Crossley received the 2013 Alumnae Achievement Award from Wellesley College, the highest honor given to alumnae for excellence and distinction in their fields of endeavor and has been presented annually since 1970. Crossley is recognized as a "history maker" in the nation's largest African-American video oral history collection.

Current activities

In addition to hosting her radio program, Crossley is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fello
Visiting Lecturer
guest lecturing at colleges and universities about media, politics, and the intersection of race, gender and media. She is a featured speaker on Forum Network, a public media service of

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and Corporation for Public Broadcasting providing a free online video lecture series featuring the world's leading scientists, educators, artists and author
Forum Network
Crossley also serves as a judge for several major journalism awards- including the

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s for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism – and she writes the blog "The Crushed Grape Report". She sits on several Boston-based Boards including the Boston Museum, the Ford Hall Forum, Cambridge Reads, and the Boston Book Festival.

References

External links

Callie Crossley website

Callie Crossley at the Nieman Foundation
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"Media, Race and Polarization"
'' Reliable Sources'',

, April 1, 2012
"Bio: Callie Crossley"
WGBH News
''"A Voice for the Unheard"''
''Wellesley Magazine'', Spring 2013
The African American Video Oral History Collection
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crossley, Callie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American radio journalists American film directors People from Memphis, Tennessee American mass media scholars Wellesley College alumni Emmy Award winners Peabody Award winners Edward R. Murrow Awards African-American journalists 21st-century African-American people