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CUNY recently lost federal funding for more than 70 research grants. Denis Nash, professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and executive director of CUNY's Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, talks about the funding he recently lost on research related to COVID vaccine uptake, plus comments on the changes coming to how the COVID vaccine is rolled out for the next season.

New York City's CUNY system  recently lost federal funding for more than 70 research grants.On Today's Show:Denis Nash, professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and executive director of CUNY's Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, talks about the funding he recently lost on research related to COVID vaccine uptake, plus comments on the changes coming to how the COVID vaccine is rolled out for the next season.

The U.S. healthcare system is often described as one of the most advanced in the world, yet it’s also one of the most expensive and fragmented. Millions of Americans struggle with navigating insurance networks, surprise medical bills, and soaring costs. For many, accessing basic healthcare feels more like solving a puzzle than receiving care. So… why does the U.S. spend so much more on healthcare than other countries? What role do high prices, private insurance, and systemic inefficiencies play? And most importantly, what can we do to fix it? To help us unravel these questions, we’re joined by Mustafa Hussein, an Assistant Professor of Health Economics at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health. Mustafa specializes in health inequalities, public policy, and the socio-economic drivers of health outcomes. Today – he discusses how our system got here and what it’ll take to create meaningful reform. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dr. Nicole F. Roberts is the author of Generosity Wins: How and Why this Game-Changing Superpower Drives Our Success and is the founder of Health & Human Rights Strategies, a health care and human rights-focused advising firm in Washington, D.C. Roberts is also the Executive Director of Feed A Billion, an international nonprofit that feeds girls in need, and the host of The Global Good Podcast. She contributes to Forbes, contextualizing health, and highlighting ideas, companies, and people changing the health landscape. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and publications, and her talks can be found on the United Nations website and various news and sports outlets. Roberts holds a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina, a master's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri. She sits on several boards including the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Foundation Board of Directors. Generosity Wins OnlineFollow Nicole on LinkedInFollow Nicole on InstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“The reason you want to build a model is because people have all these assumptions that aren't actually true.”   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. In this edition of the Mini Chief we feature a snippet from our Best of Series with the Chief Science Officer of ACSILabs, Dr Lia DiBello Ph.D. Her full episode is titled Debunking the 10,000 hour mastery rule through accelerated learning, and how this will drastically improve business outcomes. You can find the full audio and show notes here:

“The brain doesn't actually have a sense of time; it has a sense of trial and error cycles.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Dr Lia DiBello Ph.D on debunking the 10,000 hour mastery rule through accelerated learning, and how this will drastically improve business outcomes.  

From the very earliest days of the epidemic, women got infected with HIV and died from AIDS — just like men. But from the earliest days, this undeniable fact was largely ignored — by the public, the government and even the medical establishment. The consequences of this blindspot were profound. Many women didn't know they could get HIV.But in the late 1980s, something remarkable happened. At a maximum security prison in upstate New York, a group of women came together to fight the terror and stigma that was swirling in the prison as more and more women got sick with HIV and AIDS. Katrina Haslip was one of them. An observant Muslim and former sex worker, she helped found and create AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE), one of the country's first HIV and AIDS organizations for women. And when she got out of prison, she kept up the work: she joined forces with women activists on the outside to be seen, heard and treated with dignity. This is her story — and the story of scores of women like her who fought to change the very definition of AIDS.Voices in this episode include:• Katrina Haslip was an AIDS activist who was born in Niagara Falls, New York. She spent five years at the Bedford Hills Correctional Center, during which time she served as a prison law librarian and helped found the organization AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE). After her release in 1990, she continued her advocacy through ACE-Out, an organization she formed to support women leaving prison, as well as ACT UP and other organizations.• Judith Clark spent 37 years in prison for her role in the October 1981 Brink's robbery. In prison, she helped found AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE), along with other programs to support and counsel women. Since her release in 2019, she has continued to work on behalf of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.• Maxine Wolfe was a member of the women's committee of ACT UP. Wolfe is an American author, scholar and activist for AIDS, civil rights, lesbian rights and reproductive rights. She is a co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers, a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a member of Queer Nation. Wolfe is currently professor emerita of women's and gender studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.• Terry McGovern is a lawyer and senior associate dean for academic and student affairs in the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. In 1989, McGovern founded the HIV Law Project and served as the executive director until 1999. Her successful lawsuit against the Social Security Administration enabled scores of women with AIDS to receive government benefits.• Dr. Kathy Anastos is a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Anastos's work advances HIV and AIDS research and treatment, both globally and in the Bronx. She has been the principal investigator of the New York City/Bronx Consortium of the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) since it was launched in 1993.This episode title comes from a Gran Fury poster. Gran Fury was an artist collective that worked in collaboration with ACT UP and created public art in response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic.Resources: "The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women And AIDS" by Gena Corea.Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice.

Mitra Kalita is a storied journalist and media executive, author of two books, and a former Senior Vice President for News, Opinion and Programming at CNN Digital, where she oversaw a team of 200 employees. Mitra has also taught her craft at Columbia, UMass Amherst, CUNY Graduate School, and St. John's. And in November of 2020 she was asked to join the board of The Philadelphia Inquirer.During our chat, we talked about her tenure as a journalist and media executive, why she started a company called Epicenter NYC during Covid, how and why she co-founded her company URL Media, and why she believes that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are so important in today's news rooms.I was honored to have Mitra join me on the program, and I hope you learn as much from her as I did.Watch Episode: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit truethirty.substack.com/subscribe

Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It's a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy. That's the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years ago, then updated again in 2017. Historically, the questions posed by The Trolley Problem are great for thought experimentation and conversations at a certain kind of cocktail party. Now, new technologies are forcing that moral quandary out of our philosophy departments and onto our streets. So today, we revisit the Trolley Problem and wonder how a two-ton hunk of speeding metal will make moral calculations about life and death that still baffle its creators. Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from the Moral Machine group at MIT. Also thanks to Fiery Cushman, Matthew DeBord, Sertac Karaman, Martine Powers, Xin Xiang, and Roborace for all of their help. Thanks to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students who collected the vox: Chelsea Donohue, Ivan Flores, David Gentile, Maite Hernandez, Claudia Irizarry-Aponte, Comice Johnson, Richard Loria, Nivian Malik, Avery Miles, Alexandra Semenova, Kalah Siegel, Mark Suleymanov, Andee Tagle, Shaydanay Urbani, Isvett Verde and Reece Williams. EPISODE CREDITS  Reported and produced by - Amanda Aronczyk and Bethel HabteOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

EPISODE 1574: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Nate Halverson, the producer and lead reporter on the new documentary movie THE GRAB, about the money, influence and rationale behind covert efforts to control the planet's most vital resource  Nate Halverson is an Emmy Award-winning senior reporter and producer at The Center for Investigative Reporting, covering business and finance with an emphasis on the global food system. Halverson broke the international news that California was literally sinking, a result of farmers over-pumping groundwater in the drought stricken Central Valley. He won a national Emmy Award for his reporting on the Chinese government's involvement in the takeover of the world's largest pork company, Smithfield Foods. He revealed the Saudi government's plan to support the acquisition of food and water resources around the world that included a 15-square-mile farm in the parched Arizona desert, and other farms across drought stricken California. He reported on classified cables from the U.S. State Department that detailed wealthy countries were concerned about looming water and food shortages, including dire shortages in Yemen that helped trigger its devastating civil war. He has reported across the world, including Russia, Guatemala, England, Zambia, China, and Venezuela, and on investigative topics ranging from financial fraud and organized crime to uncovering internal documents that helped result in a $155 million settlement with a tech company. Before joining CIR, Halverson worked on projects with the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, PBS NewsHour and at the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Press Democrat. He was awarded a 2014 McGraw Fellowship by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and he received degrees in economics and journalism from the University of Minnesota. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 25, 2023 - Dr. Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, discusses the state's progress in combating Hepatitis C and identifies steps the state should implement to eliminate the virus by 2030.

Pamela Wheeler is an accomplished leader with nearly three decades of experience improving diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) outcomes for employees, clients, partners and communities. She works with leaders across NFP, building from the solid DEIB foundation in place, to move the organization forward with deliberate action, measurable results and continuous refinement. Prior to NFP, Wheeler consulted with National Football League Operations on their DEIB efforts. Prior to that, she led the Women's National Basketball Players Association, where she accelerated DEIB in a number of areas for the players. She also served as director of Business Development for the Continental Basketball Association, and general counsel and marketing manager for Bob Woolf Associates/Arnold Communications. Wheeler is also a lecturer in Columbia University's MS Sports Management program, serves on the board of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, is a former member of the foundation board of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and is a member of the trustee emeritus board of the Women's Sports Foundation. She earned a BA from Dartmouth College and a JD from Boston University.

In today's fast-paced world, we often hear about the importance of maintaining a healthy relationship, but how do we actually assess the health of our connection? In this episode, Dr. Réne Vázquez del Valle, a psychotherapist, and author of "Head Heart Crotch Connections: How Not to Fail in Search of Your Perfect" shares his simple yet profound formula for evaluating the head, heart, and sexual connection in our relationships and provides tips for identifying areas of weakness and working on them. Dr. Vázquez del Valle breaks down his technique and offers a free connection scale on his website, allowing individuals to assess their level of connection and identify areas that need improvement. Join us in this insightful conversation as we explore the importance of connection and how to maintain its health. Dr. René G. Vázquez del Valle, DSW, received his MSW at Columbia University and his Doctorate at the CUNY Graduate School. He was an Adjunct Professor at Long Island University; guest speaker at both the NYU School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry and CUNY Law School. He retired from the NYS Office of Mental Health after 30 years of clinical practice. He currently resides in NYC and East Hampton, NY, and works as a private practice therapist. Check out the transcript of this episode on Dr. Jessica Higgin's website. In this episode 3:44 How to assess success or failure in a relationship and the different factors that contribute to it. 13:16 The importance of descriptive language and mutual connection in relationships. 17:26 The importance of different types of connections in a relationship. 23:40 Understanding your partner's needs: Enhancing connection in relationships through emotional, sexual, and intellectual fulfillment 28:52 Analyzing the fight-or-flight response to improve connection in relationships. 31:07 Understanding attachment style and types of connections. 33:25 Defense mechanisms and their impact on an individual's ability to connect with others 39:56 Understanding marianismo and the effects of shame on connection and wellbeing. 44:00 Dr. René Vázquez del Valle talks about his book and explains how the simple formula of assessing head, heart, and crotch connections can have profound effects on people's lives. Mentioned Head, Heart, Crotch Connections: How Not to Fail In Search of Your Perfect Union (*Amazon Affiliate link) (book) Connection Rating Scale Relationship Map To Happy, Lasting Love Shifting Criticism For Connected Communication Connect with Dr. René Vázquez del Valle Websites: renev.authorchannel.co Facebook: facebook.com/reneleo2 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rené-vázquez-del-valle-dsw-lcsw-r-71484563 Instagram: instagram.com/rene_vdelv Connect with Dr. Jessica Higgins Facebook: facebook.com/EmpoweredRelationship  Instagram: instagram.com/drjessicahiggins  Podcast: drjessicahiggins.com/podcasts/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/EmpowerRelation  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drjessicahiggins  Twitter: @DrJessHiggins  Website: drjessicahiggins.com   Email: jessica@drjessicahiggins.com If you have a topic you would like me to discuss, please contact me by clicking on the “Ask Dr. Jessica Higgins” button here.  Thank you so much for your interest in improving your relationship.  Also, I would so appreciate your honest rating and review. Please leave a review by clicking here.  Thank you!   *With Amazon Affiliate Links, I may earn a few cents from Amazon, if you purchase the book from this link.      

Links from the show:* Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor* Connect with SteveAbout my guest:In November 2022, Mariner Books (HarperCollins) published my new book, Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor. It's a behind-the-scenes narrative about the volatile lead-up to the war with Japan, told from the perspective of the American who knew that country best at the time—Joseph C. Grew, the United States ambassador from 1932 to 1942. In 2019 the National Endowment for the Humanities gave me a grant through its Public Scholar Program to support the research and writing.My previous book, A Splendid Savage: the Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham (W. W. Norton, 2016), is the biography of a man once world-famous as "the American scout." Before that, I wrote A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa (W. W. Norton, 2012), about Heinrich Barth, one of Africa's greatest explorers yet nearly forgotten today. The book is a nonfiction historical adventure that recreates Barth's incredible five-year, 10,000 mile journey in the 1850s. The Boston Globe named Labyrinth one of the best nonfiction books of 2012.My first book, Code Name Ginger: the Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), was selected by Barnes & Noble for its Discover Great New Writers award. Harper published the paperback under the title Reinventing the Wheel: a Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition.Other credits: Smithsonian, National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Wall Street Journal, Yankee, National Wildlife, The Ecologist, Plenty, BBC Wildlife, and many other magazines and newspapers. I have taught writing and journalism as an adjunct professor at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and at Fairfield University.I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from the University of Detroit, I taught literature and writing at the University of Connecticut while earning a Ph.D. I've received several awards for my work, as well as a grant from the W. Alton Jones Foundation for an environmental investigation in Bolivia. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

Happy Thanksgiving! I am grateful for all of you this week. Thank you for listening, sharing, and supporting the Development Debrief! This week, Adam Doyno and I debate about the meaning of the term "frontline fundraiser". Should we continue to use it? Or is this a problematic term? We polled all of you on the @devdebrief instagram and learned that 63% of you identify as a frontline fundraiser, 29% of you do not, and 7% of you don't know. We asked you if the term was necessary and 46% of you said yes, 33% of you said no, and 21% of you weren't sure. Take a listen, and talk about it with your teams. We would love to hear your thoughts. Please see Adam's article that inspired the conversation here: https://nycafp.org/News-Events/News-Blog/its-time-to-rethink-the-frontline-fundraiser Adam M. Doyno, a Certified Fund-Raising Executive, is the Founding Executive Director of the CUNY SPH Foundation and Inaugural Director of Development for the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Since 2018, he has been an essential catalyst in the graduate school's achievement in becoming an independent, accredited, top-ranked public health authority in New York City and the nation. In his role, he is the architect of the school's fundraising operations and drives forward development activities that support CUNY SPH students, the 500,000+ students and continuous learners within the CUNY system, and New York City broadly. Active in the fundraising community, Adam serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Fundraising Professionals-NYC Chapter as co-Vice President of Member Engagement. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the 125th Street Business Improvement District in Harlem. In 2021 he was honored by NYNMedia Nonprofit as part of their annual 40 Under 40 Class. Adam earned a BA from Hofstra University and an MPA from CW Post, Long Island University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and two young children. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/devdebrief/support

SHOW NOTES Today, Shavonne had a chance to sit down with Chris Palmedo, Clinical Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. His teaching focuses on community health, health communications, and social marketing. His professional experience includes serving as public affairs director for a health foundation and other health-related companies.  We learn more about Dr. Palmedo's research and interesting things he learned, the impact of sugar-sweetened beverages on our bodies, how companies are working to make their food more appealing and easier to access and how we can advocate for healthier decisions among our youth. RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE Follow @cpalmedo on Twitter and LinkedIn Connect with Chris on the CUNY faculty page SPH CUNY Dean's Merit Teaching Award CUNY MS Health Communication Program CREDITS Theme Music

Welfare reform in the 90's and the recent pandemic may seem like radically different moments in history but they share a few things in common, namely back to work labor narratives that:are overly reliant on frameworks of personal responsibilityprioritize work over health and wellbeingperpetuate policies, practices, and beliefs that are racist, sexist, classist, and ableistTune in to hear from three brilliant guests sharing their stories and expertise on:the history and impact of welfare reform in the 90'snavigating return to work during the pandemicthe medicine and wisdom of disability justice in imagining new ways to work and liveABOUT OUR GUESTSSydnie Mosley is an artist-activist and educator who works with communities to organize for gender and racial justice through experiential dance performance with her dance-theater collective Sydnie L. Mosley Dances. She wrote an article in Dance Magazine entitled "I Have No Desire to Produce a Performance, Live or Livestreamed, Until the Pandemic Is Over. I'll Wait." Listen to her full interview on Patreon (running time: 01:32:43)Diana Romero is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Sciences and director of the Maternal, Child, Reproductive and Sexual Health specialization (MCRSH) at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy in New York City. Listen to her full interview on Patreon (running time: 01:29:51)Nikki Brown-Booker is the Program Officer for the Disability Inclusion Fund at Borealis Philanthropy. As a person with a disability and a biracial woman, she has devoted her work to advancing rights at the intersection of disability justice and racial justice. Listen to her full interview on Patreon (running time: 00:56:24)Learn more about podcast guests here!SUPPORT THE SHOW!Follow @BlackWomensLabor on Instagram and turn on notifications!Sign up for our newsletterSupport our work on Patreon where you will have exclusive access to full-length interviews with each of our guests featured this season. Make a one-time donation on PayPalPurchase the podcast music (and remix!)Visit www.BlackWomensLabor.com to learn more.CREDITSCreator, Host and HBIC: Taja LindleyAudio Engineering by Lilah LarsonMusic by Emma Alabaster who also served as the Pre-Production Associate ProducerAdditional Music Production by Chip BeltonVocals by Patience SingsMixing and Mastering by Chip BeltonLyrics by Taja Lindley and Emma AlabasterLogo and Graphic Design Templates by Homegirl HQThis podcast is produced by Colored Girls Hustle and supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting ProjectSupport the show

May 26, 2022 - Dr. Denis Nash, a professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, talks about the state of the pandemic in New York and recommends policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

There are many ways to shrink your carbon footprint, but it's not always accessible to everyone. Green and eco-friendly products are more expensive. Today, we talk about sustainability, privilege and environmental justice. We hear from Leticia Colon de Mejias, President of Connecticut nonprofit Green Eco Warriors. Later, we learn how “green gentrification” has changed neighborhoods and who gets access to green amenities. How can we make going green accessible and affordable to all that want to be more environmentally conscious? GUESTS: Leticia Colon de Mejias - President of Green Eco Warriors and federal National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) Appointed Board Member Lynn Stoddard - Executive Director of Sustainable CT Dr. Tammy Lewis - Professor of Sociology and Earth and Environmental Sciences at CUNY Graduate School and Brooklyn College For more Earth Day news and stories, check out the New England News Collaborative's 'Covering Climate Now' page. Where We Live is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode. Our programming is made possible thanks to listeners like you. Please consider supporting this show and Connecticut Public with a donation today by visiting ctpublic.org/donate.  Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 21, 2022 - Dr. Denis Nash, a professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, talks about the current state of the pandemic in New York, considers what precautions should be in place to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission and evaluates the proactiveness of public health officials.

Bruce Y Lee- Executive Director, PHICOR (Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research) Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy On the Mitch Albom Show 3-29-22

Bruce Y. Lee - Executive Director, PHICOR (Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research) Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy from 3-21-22

This week Mayor Adams eased pandemic-era restrictions, lifting mask mandates in schools and vaccine requirements for restaurants and entertainment venues. Denis Nash, professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and executive director of CUNY's Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, and Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, Columbia University Professor of epidemiology and medicine, and director of Columbia World Projects and ICAP, a global health center at the school of public health, talk about the public health challenges of this moment and take questions from listeners. We're taking calls from restaurant / nightlife workers, public school parents and teachers: How was your week in terms of the city's changing COVID safety guidelines?Call-in: 212-433-9692We're talking to @epi_dude & @ColumbiaMSPH's Wafaa El-Sadr on NYC's new COVID phase. — The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast (@BrianLehrer) March 11, 2022

Incentives like gift cards aren't working to get people vaccinated. Rates have stalled or dropped, and public health officials all over the country are nervous.  As omicron spreads, infection rates soar and hospitals are once again overwhelmed, do we need to rethink how we motivate people to get vaccinated? Would denying access to the public sphere increase the number of people getting their shots? Guest host Kerri Miller speaks with two public health researchers on motivating the masses to get vaccinated for the common good. Guests: Stefanie Friedhoff is part of the Brown University School of Public Health leadership team and works on public health communication strategy. Scott Ratzan is a public health communication expert at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health in New York, and is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Communication. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS.

Jasmine Drake, MPH is a Community Developer at Prince George's County Health Department in Maryland. She is a highly energized public health professional who has over 7 years of experience in public health working for 3 different local public health departments. She got her Bachelors of Arts in Biology at University of Virginia. She got her Master of Public Health at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.Jasmine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasminedrakebx/Omari on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thephmillennial/Omari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omari-richins-mph/Website: https://thephmillennial.comShownotes: https://thephmillennial.com/episode83All ways to support The Public Health Millennial: https://thephmillennial.com/support/Support The Public Health Millennial: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thephmillennialUse Code “thePHmillennial” for discount: https://thepublichealthstore.comEmail List: https://thephmillennial.com/signup/Support the show (http://paypal.me/thePHmillennial)

Join Denese and Ann as they discuss all things social justice, pop culture, and current events. This episode touches upon ethnic identifiers, student protests, and diversity in afro-latinx culture. This show features a panel discussion with Sasha Fountain. Sasha Fountain is the creator of Afro Latinx of NYC, and is 1/3 of the Cozy Chat Podcast. Sasha M. Fountain is a Afro-Latinx creative based out of NYC. She is Panamanian/Afro-Costa Rican by way of her mother and African-American on her father's side. She holds a BA in Media Studies from CUNY Hunter College and a MA in Social Journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Her work spans the mediums of photography, videography & editing, writing, and audio. She spends a lot of time talking about Blackness, Afrolatinidad and the ways in which media informs our perspectives. Follow Sasha Fountain's Links Instagram: @sash_marguerite Website: smarguerite.co --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcypher/support

Aldo talks to Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, about his journey as an entrepreneur and as a philanthropist. Having donated over 60% of his net worth to charity, Craig reflects for the very first time to stop pledging & giving his fortune and speaks about what might be next.    Guest Introduction:   My next guest has achieved what many tech entrepreneurs (myself included) can only dream of. In 1995, Craig Newmark started curating a list of San Francisco arts and technology events, which he personally emailed to friends and colleagues. People were soon calling it "Craig's List," and when Newmark turned it into a company, he monetized it minimally, opting for a business model that prioritized "doing well by doing good."  Today's Craig's e-mail list from the mid-nineties has turned into a massive company. With more than 5 billion ads that have been posted on the site, the vast majority for free. Even though Craig Newmark hasn't been involved in the day-to-day operations of Craigslist since the year 2000, he does appear to have continued his journey of making the internet a more safe and above all comprehensive place.  In 2011 my guest founded “craigconnects” an organisation to support the efforts of non-profit organisations who fight against global poverty. And in 2015 he set up Craig Newmark Philanthropies to advance people and grassroots organizations that are “getting stuff done” in areas that include trustworthy journalism & the information ecosystem, voter protection, women in technology, and veterans & military families.  “The trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy,” Craig said in a recent interview with the Canadian Press Gazette in February of this year “Instead of limiting or stopping this spread of disinformation, I could see that frequently the press was being gamed into spreading disinformation. And so intuitively I recognised that something was going very badly wrong” -  And that my guest was serious about attacking anything that causes such disinformation and chaos became clear when he started putting his money where his mouth is:  To give a few examples:  In June 2018, Newmark gave $20 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which renamed itself as the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism after the gift. In February 2019, Newmark gave another $10 million to Columbia Journalism School to launch a new center for journalism ethics and security. Many other examples can be found where my guest visibly supports digital wellbeing, security and above all to support the people who fight to protect the values that America aspires to: fairness, opportunity and respect.  Most importantly!  Craig appears to be someone very grounded and very aware of what is going on around him. He is an avid bird watcher and last but most certainly he can very much appreciate Dad jokes.  Craig a very warm welcome to you!

In this Episode: While it may be convenient, it is also dangerous to rely on quick social media headlines or secondhand information when making public and personal health decisions. At the same time, medical research studies can seem overwhelmingly complicated and hard to understand, if we can locate them at all. In this first episode of Making Public Health Personal, we discuss identifying accurate research data and studies for everyday people (who aren't researchers or physicians). We give practical tips to locate and understand health-related research data, including studies conducted by drug companies themselves. We also discuss the checks and balances the research community has in place to weed out unethical research practices. Our expert in this episode is Dr. Mary Schooling, Chair of the Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology, with over 400 academic journal articles published. Her research includes topics that explain patterns of disease and identify new interventions for population health. ​ ​ The host of Making Public Health Personal is Laura Meoli-Ferrigon, a podcaster looking to help others understand the different types of research studies and the key terms to look for when deciphering good research from clickbait. Episode Links: www.Pubmed.gov (Direct source of public health research studies available to all, curated by the National Library of Medicine) www.Wikipedia.com (Reminder: always check sources on this platform) www.scholar.google.com (Another direct source of public health research studies available to all) About Dr. Schooling's research on salt & cardiovascular disease: https://sph.cuny.edu/life-at-sph/news/2020/10/07/salt-cardiovascular-disease/ Contact & find out more about Dr. Mary Schooling: https://sph.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/mary-schooling/ Want to be a guest on a future episode of this show? Contact our host: Laura.Ferrigon@sph.cuny.edu ​ Interested in finding out more about the CUNY SPH? Visit: SPH.cuny.edu Download an accessible text transcript here.

Dan Frogel, physician and regional chief medical officer for CityMD, and Denis Nash, professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and executive director of CUNY's Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, talk about what researchers learned from a large study of COVID diagnostic and antibody tests during the first wave of COVID infections in the New York area, plus more pandemic news.

Juviza Rodriguez— Juvi to all who know her— is a mother, storyteller, and self proclaimed public health geek. She currently lives in Ossining, NY but was born and raised in Washington Heights and is incredibly proud of her roots. Juvi began journaling when she was 8 years old and has evolved into a creative non fiction writer. Her more recent pieces touch on the unspoken daily traumas that First Generation kids like her experienced living in Washington Heights in the 90's. Juvi will be attending the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA) writing intensive this summer, and this Fall will start her PhD journey at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Juvi IG: @juvirod Yaddy IG & Twitter : @Yaddyv_____ https://inyaddyswords.wixsite.com/inyaddyswords

062 Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist. Beyond founding Craigslist he also founded Craig Newmark Foundation where he funded and promoted investment in organizations to effectively serve the communities.  His philanthropy work focuses on helping build trustworthy journalism. He is a founding funder and executive committee member of the News Integrity Initiative, administered by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He serves on the board of directors of a range of nonprofits including Girls Who Code, Blue Star Families, Center for Public Integrity, and many others. He also serves on the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

The World Obesity Federation represents professional members of the scientific, medical and research communities from over 50 regional and national obesity associations. Through their membership they create a global community of organisations dedicated to solving the problems of obesity by ensuring that obesity is recognised as a disease and treated as such. It is leading the way with World Obesity Day, one of their action initiatives which was established in 2015 as an annual campaign with the goal of stimulating and supporting practical actions that will help people achieve and maintain a healthy weight and reverse the global obesity crisis. Join us for this important Broadcast with Dr. Olivia Barata Cavalcanti - Director of Science & Programmes at the World Obesity Federation. Dr Olivia Barata Cavalcanti has over a decade of experience in public health with a special focus on obesity and public-private partnerships to fight non-communicable diseases. In her role as Director of Science and Programmes at the World Obesity, she leads the organisation's training and certification programme, SCOPE, which addresses professional development for obesity care in healthcare systems. She also oversees MAPPS, the organisation's programme aimed at monitoring obesity prevention and treatment in health systems across the globe. Additionally, Olivia is in charge of scientific knowledge management for the organisation. She has worked for different international and non-profit organizations in Europe and the United States where she was in responsible for all aspects of design and implementation of different health programmes on diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease for both children and adults with a focus on low-income settings. She also has deep knowledge of and experience with the UN system having worked at UNAIDS in Mozambique, for the US Fund for UNICEF and as a Fellow at the Italian Mission to the UN. Olivia has experience teaching Public Health, Community Health and Research Methods courses in different universities at both the undergraduate and graduate level. She earned her Doctorate of Public Health degree from CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She also holds a Master of Public Health and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. She was born and raised in beautiful Rio de Janeiro and has lived in Rome, New York and Maputo before landing in London. We find out from Olivia more about The World Obesity Federation and how their work could be beneficial to the International fresh produce sectors to help promote healthier living and increase fresh produce consumption.

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Vaccine Hesitancy: Convincing Canadians the Importance of Vaccines In this panel discussion, the panelists look at a polling that showed Canadians were losing confidence in vaccines and they discuss ways to combat misinformation and build and maintain public confidence in vaccines. Moderator: William Powers, Writer, Journalist and Technologist Panelists: Angel Chu, Vice Chair, Immunize Canada; Infectious Disease Physician, Department of Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre Dr. Jia Hu, Medical Officer of Health; Chair, 19 To Zero Raj Pannu, CEO & Founder, Emergence Creative Scott Ratzan, Distinguished Lecturer, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Public Policy *The content presented is free of charge but please note that the Empire Club of Canada retains copyright. Neither the speeches themselves nor any part of their content may be used for any purpose other than personal interest or research without the explicit permission of the Empire Club of Canada.* *Views and Opinions Expressed Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the speakers or panelists are those of the speakers or panelists and do not necessarily reflect or represent the official views and opinions, policy or position held by The Empire Club of Canada.*

Date: 12/10/2020 Show Description: Lia DiBello is president and director of research at WTRI, Inc. She received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at CUNY Graduate School in New York, where she studied under the late Distinguished Professor Sylvia Scribner, a well known pioneer in the area of workplace cognitive and the author of many now classic works. Since she started directing the research at WTRI, Dr. DiBello has been the recipient of 17 basic research funding awards from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and The Russell Sage Foundation. DiBello is best known for the development of a particular kind of activity-based “strategic rehearsal” approach that has been shown to greatly accelerate learning through cognitive reorganization. Where to find Leah: LinkedIn WTRI Learn more about NDM: NaturalisticDecisionMaking.org Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Where to find hosts Brian Moon and Laura Militello: Brian's website Brian's LinkedIn Brian's Twitter Laura's website Laura's LinkedIn Laura's Twitter Timestamps: How Leah first became involved in NDM [1:50] Leah's methods for developing new methods [9:45] Strategies for measuring the impact of a training to know if it's working [18:45] Leading a financial services firm to new a new profitable approach [32:15] Capturing mental models prior to training [32:57] Advantages of using virtual worlds to achieve NDM goals [36:08] Career influences in and outside the NDM community [44:00] One single question that could determine whether someone truly practices NDM [45:49] Where Leah plans to take her research next [46:29] Two truths and a lie [52:19]

After Pfizer and Moderna vaccines earlier in the month, a third arrives from the University of Oxford. The question now becomes when the vaccines will be distributed and to whom. We’ll hear from Bruce Y Lee, professor at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, about just how daunting a task a global inoculation programme will be. Meanwhile, Alex de Jonquieres, the head of the Vaccine Alliance Gavi, explains how they’re trying to make sure every country can afford enough of the vaccine to protect their country. But Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy advisor at Doctors without Borders, says there’s nothing to stop richer countries jumping to the front of the queue. Producer: Frey Lindsay. (Image credit: Getty Creative)

Dr. Terry Huang is a leading researcher in obesity and chronic disease prevention and the founder of Firefly Innovations, the first-of-its-kind platform to combine public health and entrepreneurship. Dr. Huang is also the Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and the Co-Director of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center. Firefly Innovations Podcast host, Jared Hendry, covers the community around Dr. Huang that contributed to his success in research and dives deeper into public health systems, Coronavirus, and how entrepreneurship can improve population well-being.

Season 1 Episode 7 features an interview with Dr. Lynn Roberts: a mother, grandmother, professor, and scholar activist. In this week's episode we discuss some historical moments of reproductive justice organizing and advocacy in New York City from the nineties and early 2000's as well as the intersections of public health and reproductive justice in Lynn's career and beyond.Lynn Roberts' Bio:Dr. Lynn Roberts earned a Bachelor in Science in human development from Howard University (1984) and a PhD in Human Services Studies from Cornell University (1991). She is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs & Alumni Relations and a tenured faculty member in the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Prior to CUNY, she oversaw the development, implementation and evaluation of several programs for women and youth in NYC. She is an emeritus board member of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and co-edited the anthology, Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique.References During the Episode:[book] Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta Ross and Ricki Solinger[book] Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts[book] Reproductive Injustice by Dana Ain Davis[book] Policing the Womb by Michele GoodwinCritical Race Theorists and Scholars: Kimberle' Crenshaw, Chandra FordQuestions to Consider After the Episode:What are the frameworks and theories that guide your work? And how can those frameworks and theories influence (and be influenced by) your activism?Created and Hosted by Taja LindleyProduced by Colored Girls HustleMusic, Soundscape and Audio Engineering by Emma AlabasterSupport our work on Patreon or make a one-time payment via PayPalFor more information visit BirthJustice.nyc This podcast is made possible, in part, by the Narrative Power Stipend - a grant funded by Forward Together for members of Echoing Ida.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/TajaLindley)

La comediante y actriz venezolana residente en Nueva York, Joanna Haussmann, nos acompaña en esta cercana y fresca conversación con Daniel Chapela y Carlos Bustamante. Joanna ha ganado enorme popularidad con sus videos en YouTube, los cuales han superado las 70 millones de visitas. Con la latinidad como leit motiv de sus creaciones, ha dado a conocer rasgos de distintas culturas atendiendo a un humor que se mueve en dos lenguas, el español y el inglés, pero que se hace universal desde lo singular de su arte. Su programa quincenal "Joanna Rants" es una referencia en las plataformas digitales, tanto como sus posturas políticas en relación a la realidad venezolana, también plasmadas en un video que fue publicado en The New York Times. Con su trabajo ganó, en 2016, los galardones a "Mejor Comediante" y "Creador del Año" en los premios "Tecla 2016 de Hispanicize". Del mismo modo, recibió el reconocimiento de la National Hispanic Media Coalition al "Mejor Narrador On Line" de 2018. Hausmann ha sido corresponsal de la serie de tres temporadas en Netflix "Bill Nye saves the world", estrenada el 21 de abril de 2017 y, en otra de sus facetas, ha interpretado personajes en series de Disney Channel así como en "Monsters Inc", al lado de figuras como John Goodman o Billy Cristal. En la actualidad, ejerce como profesora adjunta en CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Encuentros Mundanos: @encuentrosmundanos (Instagram) | @encuentrosmund1 (Twitter) Carlos Bustamante: @carlosbuk (Instagram y Twitter) Daniel Chapela: @dchapela (Instagram y Twitter) Joanna Hausmann: @joannahausmann (Twitter) | @johaus (Instagram)

US president Trump has outlined his plans for "Operation Warp Speed", which aims to expedite development of a coronavirus vaccine, as political reporter Erin Delmore explains. Bruce Y. Lee, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, recommends remaining realistic in our expectations for a vaccine. Meanwhile, the virus is causing a crisis in America's food chains and we hear personal stories and expert testimony from across the nation. And the head of Intel reflects on how the coronavirus pandemic can help us reshape how we approach business. Plus, we explore whether musicians who have had to cancel tours as a result of coronavirus stand a chance of recouping lost income through music sales and streaming. And we'll have a view on the US markets from Chris Low of FHN Financial in New York. (Picture: Donald Trump giving a speech. Picture Credit: Getty Images)

Prof. Nicholas Freudenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy and Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute.  Prof. Freudenberg discusses the challenges posed to the American food supply -- particularly in urban areas -- by the coronavirus, the local and institutional repercussions that the virus may have on the nation's food consumption, and how communities and families may deal with the burgeoning food crisis.

A weekly tracking survey by the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy is revealing important insights about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on New Yorkers--and vice versa. Dr. Scott Ratzan discusses what the results tell us about our collective attitudes, behaviors and beliefs--and how they might inform efforts to fight the spread of this pandemic and maybe help prevent future ones.

A weekly tracking survey by the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy is revealing important insights about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on New Yorkers--and vice versa. Dr. Scott Ratzan discusses what the results tell us about our collective attitudes, behaviors and beliefs--and how they might inform efforts to fight the spread of this pandemic and maybe help prevent future ones.

In this episode, Ryan speaks with Christopher R. Martin, Professor of Communication Studies and Digital Journalism at the University of Northern Iowa. Martin is the author of No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class (Cornell University Press /ILR Press), named one of Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles of 2019. No Longer Newsworthy traces the decline of the “labor beat” in local and national newspapers, as — beginning in the 1960s — these publications became less concerned with serving mass audiences and more concerned with targeting upscale consumers. As Martin shows in vivid detail, this shift in focus has distorted the mainstream media’s coverage of labor issues and prompted many rural and working-class readers to turn to other, more conservative sources of news. The book provides a useful framework for thinking about the decline of the newspaper industry, including here in the Texas Panhandle, and it points to ways that publications can revitalize their labor coverage so as to better fulfill the democratic function of an independent press. For more information and video links for news stories, useful for teaching, visit Martin’s No Longer Newsworthy website. For an application to the labor-journalism workshop described in the interview, visit the CUNY Graduate School for Journalism’s “Reporting the U.S. Workplace” page.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism professor Jeff Jarvis blasted the media for acting as stenographers for Trump.On the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice has moved to decertify the outspoken union of immigration judges; the Trump administration moved to limit state powers to block pipelines and fossil fuel terminals; and, a battle to give African Americans political power is playing out in Mississippi's courts.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Russia orders Google not to advertise 'illegal mass events' after the largest political protests in almost a decade; and, with years of links to Russia, the Texas secessionist movement's flag is now flying in Moscow.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/12/1878367/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

Throughout most of the 20th century and beyond, the term "socialism" has carried a lot of baggage in U.S. political history. Socialism itself has deep historical roots in the U.S. But the ideology became a toxic brand thanks in part to the Cold War, as Soviet republics and their imitators around the world saw authoritarians seize power under the guise of socialism. But almost 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, socialism is once again having a moment in mainstream U.S. politics. As politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pitch their Democratic Socialism to a generation not familiar with Cold War rhetoric, skeptics remain unconvinced about the promise of sweeping social reform. Guests: Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont, Democratic presidential candidate Peter Beinart, contributing editor for The Atlantic and professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Congressional Correspondent for The New York Times Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Tune in as we talk to Elizabeth Ucles, a journalist who is currently an Editorial Intern for Community Impact Newspaper. She also spent the summer of 2018 in NYC through a fellowship with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and served as a politics intern with WNYC Radio. Tune in because it’s gonna be SYCK!!

In today's episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Nesh Pillay about equality through empathy and how we can start to address issues of race, gender and age equality as female entrepreneurs.  Nesh Pillay is the founder of Press Pillay - a socially-conscious digital marketing agency based in Toronto. Press Pillay offers an array of services for growing lifestyle tech brands. She is committed to becoming the Robin Hood of Marketing by taking from the rich and giving to the poor - or in her case, redistributing 10% of all her agency's income toward making the world a better place. After attaining her Master's degree from New York's CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Nesh held various roles at The Drum, EQ Works, Avid Life Media, and Vice HBO. When she's not trying to take over the Toronto communications scene, Nesh can be found chasing her pantless two-year-old around her apartment. > Connect with Andrea on Instagram at @misscrispy + @the.couragecast.    > Join our Patreon Community by becoming a patron (supporter) of The Couragecast. For as little as $2 a month you can help us to continue empowering women. For $5 a month you gain access to exclusive bonus content - www.patreon.com/thecouragecast  

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Cole Rosengren is a senior reporter for Waste Dive. Cole has many years of front-line experience with the waste industry having worked in many environments where he observed a myriad of problems that exist in the handling of waste and recycling. With a passion for forward-thinking solutions to planetary problems that the waste industry poses, Cole seeks to write and report on the pertinent issues that are shaping our conversation about waste and sustainability. Mr. Rosengren holds a BFA in writing and publishing from Emerson College as well as an MA in urban reporting (CUNY Graduate School of Journalism). The waste and recycling journalist dives into a dense discussion of the many issues facing the global waste industry. As Mr. Rosengren states, China's unfathomable exponential growth into a dominant global industry player has increased their need for raw materials and scrap. Thus for many years, they have been the final stop for recycled materials that they could turn into new products and export out. However, Rosengren states this ‘perfect circle' of sorts may have reached its endpoint. With the launch of their National Sword policy, China announced that they would no longer take 24 various types of recycled materials. This policy comes on the heels of China's Green Fence policy just five years previous, which introduced new standards for lower contamination levels for the recycling.  The new policy will certainly be felt around the world, and will especially strike a blow to recycling operators in China, many of which rely heavily on the ongoing import of a wide assortment of raw materials. And while the retooling of China's recycling intake process will be an opportunity for China to begin cleaning up their own environment, the economic impact will be an adjustment for material exporters as they feel the sting of stringent regulations. Rosengren discusses some of the issues that are becoming pivotal points in the conversation, post-China's new rules. Perhaps a silver lining for environmentalists could be that China's harsher regulations are driving the push toward a decrease in the use of plastics and single-use paper, etc. in general. But flipping the coin, American businesses and governments are taking a hit when it comes to recycling, as China's policies have driven up the cost of recycling domestically. As these costs go up, some communities are taxing the recycling, while others are ramping up their efforts to inform the community about proper recycling. And other communities are taking more draconian measures to enforce recycling, even to the point of refusal of pickup if materials are not sorted properly.  Rosengren explains how businesses and manufacturers alike are engaged in a fair amount of finger-pointing in regard to who is to blame for the current waste dilemma. And in regard to governance, the EPA largely views these issues as state and local concerns, thus leaving the decisions, and quagmire, in the hands of various officials on the state level. Some states are even turning to private funds to invest further, and more heavily, into recycling infrastructure.  The waste expert details how the next wave of the movement toward a reduced waste planet is the rethinking of how we consume, in that we have developed a culture that has signed off on the ‘buy anything and everything as long as you recycle it” mindset. Perhaps, ultimately, it is time to rephrase the question to, “do I even need that,” to cut down on waste overall. But the wheels of change are slow and it's up to everyone to contribute to the solutions that will help solve our growing problem with waste. On a positive note, as the public becomes more informed, for the most part, they do want to be a part of the solution.

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his foundation's recent donation of $20 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Newmark says the school is advancing good journalism by providing opportunities to people who might not otherwise get them. He also talks about his other philanthropic work, helping veterans and women in tech as well as working with voting rights organizations, calling the 2018 midterms "critical for American democracy." Plus: Why Newmark is optimistic about the future of media in the age of Facebook and Twitter, how Craigslist evolved from an email list into the powerhouse it is today and why he's not interested in selling it or going public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barbara Gray is writing a biography of 19th century grifter-turned-philanthropist, Sophie Lyons. She talks about the genesis of the project, her research process and gives us a sneak peak of Sophie's fascinating life. She also gives us a glimpse into her work with students in her role as the director of the Research Center at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

In this 3-minute debut episode of "Journalism Innovation," we meet a new group of mid-career journalists and students beginning a semester at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. They're studying entrepreneurial journalism — each is developing his/her own startup. In this episode, host Kristen Clark briefly introduces herself and her colleagues from all over the world as they dive into a whole new kind of program in New York City. Produced, edited and narrated by Kristen Clark, with music by Chad Crouch.

Jesenia De Moya Correa, American born/Dominican Republic-raised & educated, is an award-winning graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's new Spanish-Language program. Ms. Correa discusses the importance of organization and communication to all

Richard Ben-Veniste, a partner at Mayer Brown and a former Watergate special prosecutor, says George Papadopoulos's indictment was a surprise and that Robert Mueller is running an efficient and appropriate investigation. Prior to that, Richard Clarida, a strategic advisor at PIMCO, says President Trump is choosing from the right group of people in the Fed Chair shortlist. Greg Valliere, Horizon Investments' chief global strategist, says anyone that's been in contact with Papadopoulos will be questioned by the FBI. David Herro, Harris Associates' CIO of international equity, says making Christopher Bailey an executive at Burberry was a mistake. Finally, Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at CUNY Graduate School, says it's too early to start government regulation of the internet.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Richard Ben-Veniste, a partner at Mayer Brown and a former Watergate special prosecutor, says George Papadopoulos's indictment was a surprise and that Robert Mueller is running an efficient and appropriate investigation. Prior to that, Richard Clarida, a strategic advisor at PIMCO, says President Trump is choosing from the right group of people in the Fed Chair shortlist. Greg Valliere, Horizon Investments' chief global strategist, says anyone that's been in contact with Papadopoulos will be questioned by the FBI. David Herro, Harris Associates' CIO of international equity, says making Christopher Bailey an executive at Burberry was a mistake. Finally, Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at CUNY Graduate School, says it's too early to start government regulation of the internet. 

Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy. That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did about 11 years ago. Luckily, the Trolley Problem has always been little more than a thought experiment, mostly confined to conversations at a certain kind of cocktail party. That is until now. New technologies are forcing that moral quandry out of our philosophy departments and onto our streets. So today we revisit the Trolley Problem and wonder how a two-ton hunk of speeding metal will make moral calculations about life and death that we can’t even figure out ourselves. This story was reported and produced by Amanda Aronczyk and Bethel Habte. Thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from the Moral Machine group at MIT. Also thanks to Fiery Cushman, Matthew DeBord, Sertac Karaman, Martine Powers, Xin Xiang, and Roborace for all of their help. Thanks to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students who collected the vox: Chelsea Donohue, Ivan Flores, David Gentile, Maite Hernandez, Claudia Irizarry-Aponte, Comice Johnson, Richard Loria, Nivian Malik, Avery Miles, Alexandra Semenova, Kalah Siegel, Mark Suleymanov, Andee Tagle, Shaydanay Urbani, Isvett Verde and Reece Williams. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.  

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Dr. Bennet Omalu. He was in New York Monday, August 7, to give a presentation at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and hosted by the New York Press Club, about his new book, Truth Doesn't Have a Side. Dr. Omalu is the pioneering forensic pathologist who was the first to prove a connection between the head trauma and brain injuries which inherently result from playing American football, and the disease CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. We spoke with him right after this presentation, and mainly about why he included wrestling in his list of high-contact sports which children under the age of 18 should avoid, which are football, boxing, MMA, ice hockey, and rugby. A study published September 2015 in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found that college wrestling has the highest rate of concussions of any college sport, including football. But as to rules changes in wrestling to make it safer, Dr. Omalu said, "I tend to defer to the sports experts, because I'm not an expert in many of these sports." Dr. Omalu, however, sees wrestling's problems as being far deeper than just the levels of head trauma and brain injuries. "The problem with wrestling is," he said, "there's no professional wrestling outside WWE. "So if you, say, allow wrestling in children, that means you're encouraging children eventually to go into MMA or WWE. Does that make sense? So that is why I lump all of them together, because I see it as a spectrum." In addition to his comments on the combat and contact sports, we add commentaries on some of the issues related to CTE, concussions, and combat sports. Those include the prevalence of concussions in judo, breaking the links between real wrestling and grappling and both WWE and MMA, the need for combat sports training for self-defense, and much, much more. The PodOmatic Podcast Player app is available for free, both for Android at Google Play, and for iOS on the App Store. The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer Ian Snow. No Holds Barred is sponsored by: The Catch Wrestling Alliance, resurrecting and promoting the sport of authentic catch-as-catch-can wrestling. The Catch Wrestling Alliance provides tournaments, seminars, and training as well as education about catch wrestling. Join the movement and keep real wrestling alive. For more information, go to CatchWrestlingAlliance.com. Skullz Double-End Bags, the perfect bag for your combat sports training. Skullz Double-End Bags provide a realistic striking target, and help improve timing, distance, and hand and eye coordination. Hang it and hit it right out of the box! No pump required. For more information, go to SkullzDeBags.com. USA Combat Wrestling, the official U.S. governing body for combat wrestling and U.S. delegate of the International Combat Wrestling Federation (FICW), which was founded by the legendary wrestler Noriaki Kiguchi of Japan. For more information, go to CombatWrestling.us. Thanks, Eddie Goldman EddieGoldman.com

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman presents the complete audio from the August 7 presentation by Dr. Bennet Omalu at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and hosted by the New York Press Club, as well as the informative and lively question-and-answer session which followed the presentation. Dr. Omalu is the pioneering forensic pathologist who was the first to prove a connection between the head trauma and brain injuries which inherently result from playing American football, and the disease CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He was in New York conducting interviews as part of a tour to promote his new book, Truth Doesn't Have a Side. In the discussion, Dr. Omalu passionately voiced his opposition to children under the age of 18 playing American football or engaging in other contact sports. "Do you love your child less than you love football? Which do you love more, football, or the life of your child? This is a question society should answer," he said. As to the continuing popularity of NFL football, he said, "It's all about money. We are placing money above the value of the life of our children. But I believe strongly, in the fullness of time, it will change, because the truth will prevail. Does that make sense?" And he specified, "I have always said, and it has been my position forever, that no child under the age of 18, in America today, should play the high-impact, high-contact collision sports. The Big Six are American football, ice hockey, mixed martial arts, wrestling, boxing, rugby." A one-on-one interview with Dr. Omalu will be posted on a subsequent edition of No Holds Barred. The PodOmatic Podcast Player app is available for free, both for Android at Google Play, and for iOS on the App Store. The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer Ian Snow. No Holds Barred is sponsored by: The Catch Wrestling Alliance, resurrecting and promoting the sport of authentic catch-as-catch-can wrestling. The Catch Wrestling Alliance provides tournaments, seminars, and training as well as education about catch wrestling. Join the movement and keep real wrestling alive. For more information, go to CatchWrestlingAlliance.com. Skullz Double-End Bags, the perfect bag for your combat sports training. Skullz Double-End Bags provide a realistic striking target, and help improve timing, distance, and hand and eye coordination. Hang it and hit it right out of the box! No pump required. For more information, go to SkullzDeBags.com. USA Combat Wrestling, the official U.S. governing body for combat wrestling and U.S. delegate of the International Combat Wrestling Federation (FICW), which was founded by the legendary wrestler Noriaki Kiguchi of Japan. For more information, go to CombatWrestling.us. Thanks, Eddie Goldman EddieGoldman.com

Every day another article comes out about how voters are stressed by this election. But we wanted to know: what is the election doing to our biology? The American Psychological Association recently found that more than half of all Americans — 52 percent — say this year’s presidential election is a “somewhat” or “very significant” source of stress in their lives. The survey was self-reported, meaning respondents answered a few questions online and the APA took their self-assessments at face value. Anecdotally, those assessments probably ring true for many of us, but it turns out there’s a way to measure the physiological effects of election stress.   Over the last few years, a group of neuroscientists and political scientists have pioneered a new field called biopolitics, the study of biology and political behavior. Professor Kevin Smith is a political scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a co-author of the book, "Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences.” He often collaborates with Dr. Jeffrey French, who runs a lab at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and studies cortisol, a hormone we release when we’re stressed.   One of Smith and French’s recent studies looked at stress and voting. They wanted to know if cortisol levels influence whether people vote. The easiest way to test cortisol is through saliva, so they collected spit samples from a bunch of participants and got their official voting records for the past six elections. The researchers found that people with higher cortisol levels vote less. And that finding correlates with another one of their studies, which found that people who voted absentee experienced less stress than people who went to the polls. So we asked French and Smith to help us design an experiment of sorts. We’d use the presidential debates as a proxy for the election. Our team would go to debate watch parties and collect saliva samples from viewers to measure their cortisol levels. We’d also ask the participants to fill out a survey about themselves: their party affiliation, age and self-reported stress level. And we’d see who had the biggest changes in their cortisol over the course of the debate. During the first two presidential debates, we went to watch parties in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan and Northern New Jersey. Participants spat three times into tiny tubes: before the debate, to get a baseline sample, midway through the debate and after the debate. We over-nighted the samples to Omaha, where Dr. French processed them in his lab. A few weeks later, he had the results. We all agreed that the debate watch parties seemed stressful. At a bar in Times Square, we talked to young Republicans unhappy with their nominee and worried about their party’s future. Others were terrified at the prospect of a Clinton presidency. In Midtown, a group of Democrats had gathered to watch at the Roosevelt Institute, a left-leaning think tank. A few of them brought their own alcohol, to temper their anxiety (French and Smith took alcohol and caffeine intake into account in their analysis) and a number of them worried about Trump’s popularity. But the results surprised us: cortisol levels stayed close to normal levels throughout the debates. Clinton supporters had a small spike at the midway point, but not by much. Overall, the stress levels for liberals and conservatives didn’t really change — with one exception. The researchers looked at cortisol levels based on whether participants had someone close to them who planned to vote for the opposing candidate. And for Trump supporters who had a conflict with a person close to them — a parent, a sibling, a spouse — cortisol levels actually went up after the debate. They probably found the debate more stressful. French and Smith warned us that this wasn’t a pristine study. In fact, both professors laughed when we asked if they’d submit our work to a peer-reviewed journal. But they agreed that this finding was statistically significant. And they didn’t find it for Clinton supporters, or voters who supported a third party candidate. The other significant finding related to baseline cortisol levels — the participants’ stress level before the debate. The researchers found that Trump supporters had much higher baseline levels compared to Clinton voters. Smith, the political scientist, couldn’t tell us why Trump voters had two times as much cortisol in their saliva compared to Clinton supporters. But he did say that our experiment served as an interesting pilot study — one that made him think differently about what he hopes to study next: tolerance. Here, Smith made a comparison to same-sex marriage. Opposition to it shifted when researchers found some biological or genetic basis for being gay — when it started to be considered innate. Smith wonders if the same is true for political difference. As he told one of our reporters, “If you're a liberal and I'm a conservative and I believe you're a liberal because you're genetically predisposed to be, then am I more tolerant of you or less tolerant of you?” In other words, if political difference is related to our biology, maybe we’ll be more tolerant of each other. And therefore less stressed. And therefore more likely to vote. At least, that’s the hope. In the spirit of encouraging less stressful conversations with the other side, here's a video with some tips for talking politics with your loved one — who's wrong about everything.    Thanks to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students who helped out: Vicki Adame, Priscilla Alabi, Gregory Alcala, Christina Dabney, Jesenia De Moya, Robert Exley, Jeremy Ibarra, Meeran Karim, Alix Langone, Pauliina Siniauer, Anuz Thapa, Maritza Villela and Katherine Warren. And special thanks to the Young Republicans of New York City, The Roosevelt Institute, the Union County Young Republicans and the Montclair Republicans Club for allowing us to attend their debate watch parties!   We've been on hiatus, working on some new stories. If you're joining us for the first time, here are some of our favorite past episodes: Keep the Baby, Get the Chemo Your Sanity or Your Kidneys Patients and Doctors Fess Up Who Are You Calling 'Inspiring'? Your Brain on Sound Bacon, Booze and the Search for the Fountain of Youth How to Stop an Outbreak A Doctor's Love Affair with Vicodin The Robot Ate My Pancreas I'd Rather have a Living Son than a Dead Daughter

Donald Trump is the only pol “who screws up and his poll numbers go up,” says Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, and he seems willing to say anything. “It’s funny how when you’re president of the United States,” says Politico chief political correspondent and Brooklyn College alum Glenn Thrush, that “stuff you say has a tendency to actually happen.” The Trump beat reporters, in conversation with Peter Beinart at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, describe a Trump rally as “the angriest bar mitzvah you’ve ever been to.”

I had fun talking to my favorite intellectual, my friend Eric Alterman (who claims that he doesn't believe in God) about his Torah studies and the meaning of life and liberalism. Eric is The Liberal Media columnist for The Nation and the author of ten books, including most recently Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year One), and The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. I first met him a decade ago after reading his still relevant What Liberal Media? and we soon developed the start of friendship which revolved a lot around talking about the meaning of life but I still learned a lot via the alchemy and formality of doing a podcast with him. Eric is also a music freak who wrote the book Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen and is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, He has also been the winner of the George Orwell Award, the Jack London Literary Prize and the Mirror Award for media criticism, and has been a Hoover Institution Media Fellow at Stanford University.  

A Panel Discussion of corruption and dysfunction in the NYS Legislature with Bill Samuels of Effective NY, Blair Horner of NYPIRG, Susan Lerner of Common Cause, former NYS Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk and Greg David director of the business and economics program at the CUNY Graduate School of journalism

Talking Albany corruption and government dysfunction, Errol Louis, NY1 and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Tom Robbins, at the Graduate School of Journalism comment on the future of the former Senate leader, the Assembly Speaker and others.

This is a panel discussion about the current employment and economic climate in New York City as part of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Government 2009-2010 Lecture Series. Barbara Fife, Director of External Affairs, Baruch College SPA, makes the opening remarks. The panel is moderated by Sarah Bartlett, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Director of the Urban and Business & Economics Reporting Programs. Panelists include: David Jones, President, Community Service Society Robert Lieber, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, New York City James Parrott, Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Rae Rosen, Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York The event takes place on November 10, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th Floor.

This is a panel discussion about the current employment and economic climate in New York City as part of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Government 2009-2010 Lecture Series. Barbara Fife, Director of External Affairs, Baruch College SPA, makes the opening remarks. The panel is moderated by Sarah Bartlett, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Director of the Urban and Business & Economics Reporting Programs. Panelists include: David Jones, President, Community Service Society Robert Lieber, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, New York City James Parrott, Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Rae Rosen, Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York The event takes place on November 10, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th Floor.

Host Doug Muzzio is joined by Greg David, author of "Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City". A columnist for "Crain's New York Business," David is also dir. of the Business & Econ. Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Doug sits down with Tom Robbins, head of the Investigative Reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. His recent “New York Times Magazine” article tells the story of Judith Clark, an inmate convicted of armed robbery and murder in 1981.

In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique I talk to Eric Alterman about his piece on Barack Obama in the October edition of the paper, entitled “The compromiser-in-chief”. Eric’s piece begins with a reminder of the Mario Cuomo quote: “campaign in poetry but govern in prose” and goes on to look at the ways in which Obama’s record is looking decidedly prosaic. “Deal-maker not world-shaker” is Alterman’s verdict, and the terms of the deals being made in Washington are increasingly being set by the Republicans. I began by asking Eric about the disappointment felt by those who elected a president who promised “bold and swift” action. To listen to the podcast, click here. Complete archive of LMD podcasts here. Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, a columnist for The Nation, The Forward, and The Daily Beast, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, the Nation Institute and the World Policy Institute.

Markets Stocks were mixed Friday. The Dow declined 43 points, ending the week at 12,681. But positive reports from chipmakers pushed the Nasdaq 24 points higher, to 2,859. The S&P 500 gained a single point, settling at 1,345. Reviewing This Week's Business Headlines The big banks released their second quarter earnings reports this week. It was bad news at Bank of America, which had its biggest quarterly loss ever - $9 billion - connected with a lawsuit the bank settled. Goldman Sachs made a profit of $1 billion. Morgan Stanley lost more than $500 million. We'll talk about why some analysts are disappointed in the latest reports, and why others are cheering. There's still no deal on raising America's debt limit, which is the amount of money our government can borrow. But some on Wall Street have cooked up plans to make money in the event our government defaults on its debt. We'll explain how. Turning to local matters, the unemployment rate in the city rose last month to 8.7 percent. Jobs were lost in financial services and government, but there were gains in private schools and restaurants. And speaking of jobs, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has officially kicked off a competition for universities to open an applied sciences campus in the city. The idea is to pick a partner to open a brand new research center, which will bring students to start. Down the line, Bloomberg said it could become an engine for tens of thousands of new jobs as well. We'll talk about who's interested, and the rest of this week's business headlines, with Greg David, director of the Business & Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

News Corporation's phone-hacking scandal continues to grow. Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton has announced he's resigning. He was chairman of News International, overseeing the British newspapers that are at the heart of the scandal. Reporters from those papers are accused of hacking into people's voice mails to get information. "News Corp. is an enormous force here in New York," said Greg David, director of the Business and Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.All week we've been hearing about the fight in Washington over raising the nation's debt limit, and on Friday, President Barack Obama repeated his desire to reach a deal that would also cut spending and raise revenues. "We have a chance to stabilize America's finances for a decade, for 15 years or 20 years, if we're willing to seize the moment," he said.If the president doesn't reach a deal with Republicans by August 2, the U.S. risks defaulting on its financial obligations and severely cutting back funding for programs like Social Security. We'll talk about the impact that could have on New York City. And at last, the final installment of Harry Potter opened at midnight. And it's not just entertainment — it's big business. David discusses these stories and this week's top business headlines.  MarketsMarkets rose Friday after some companies, including Google, reported strong second quarter earnings. The Dow climbed 43 points, closing at 12,480. The S&P 500 was up seven points, to close at 1,316. And the Nasdaq rose 27 points, closing at 2,790.

For a third straight day, Republican senators in Albany conferenced behind closed doors only to emerge saying they have no agreement on whether to bring a bill legalizing same-sex marriage to the floor for a vote. But lawmakers have a lot of other matters on their plates before the session ends on Monday, such as renewing New York City's rent regulations. The law that sets rents for about 1 million New York City residents expired midnight Wednesday because Albany legislators didn't renew it. Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he wants the rules strengthened, but he hasn't said much more. The due date is also quickly approaching for a city budget that could contain teacher layoffs. A wrench was thrown into negotiations when the labor umbrella group, the Municipal Labor Committee, balked at the idea of letting the city tap into its Health Insurance Stabilization Fund. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council have until the end of the month to iron out an agreement on the budget.Turning to global economics, bankers and others contemplated the idea of contagion. Specifically, could the Greek debt crisis spread? On Friday, word came that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to be backing off from her earlier demand that private institutions bear some of the losses resulting from the Greek debt crisis. After an initial bailout, Greece is again close to defaulting on its debts. What could this mean for the country, the rest of Europe, and the global economy?We'll review this week's business and economics news with Greg David, director of the Business & Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.MarketsThe Dow rose 43 points, ending at 12,004. The index clocked a small gain for the week. The Nasdaq had a small decline of seven points, closing at 2,616. The S&P 500 added four points, settling at 1,272.

This week, talk about a Congressman Anthony Weiner threatened to derail the entire news cycle. Weiner, who admitted on Monday to sending sexually explicit pictures to several women online, is now under pressure to resign. At one time, he was considered a serious contender for the New York City mayor's office. Could he still be a contender? Meanwhile, two governors in neighboring states are pursuing public pension reform. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie scored an important new supporter for his pension overhaul plan this week — Democratic Senate leader Steve Sweeney. Governors all over the country are trying to lower pension costs, including New York's Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo's plan would effect future employees. We'll talk about some other aspects of the plans being considered in New York and New Jersey.On Capitol Hill, the Senate voted this week to re-affirm a new law that will cap the fees banks can charge merchants when they take debit card payments. Such a provision would amount to loses for financial institutions. But could the law impact consumers?Finally, in tech news, Apple sweetened the rules for publishers that put their content on iPad devices. It's complicated, but the bottom line is that Apple would get a smaller cut from the money publishers make selling the magazines. Greg David, director of the Business & Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, joins us to review this week's business and economic news. MarketsThis was the sixth straight week of losses on the stock market. There was a big sell-off on Wall Street on Friday, and the Dow declined 172 points, closing below 12,000 at 11,952. The Nasdaq slumped to 2,644, with a loss of 41 points. The S&P 500 gave up 18 points, ending at 1,271.

This week brought a succession of disappointing economic reports, from housing to industrial production, and on Friday - job creation. The economy added just 54,000 jobs last month. That's much lower than the number that was expected, and a lot less than the 200,000 or so we've been averaging for the past several months. While there may not be a double-dip — yet — in the overall economy, Forbes magazine proclaimed this week that we're having a housing double-dip. The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index found that March home prices have fallen bellow the 2009, trough, to levels that haven't been seen since 2002. This week also brought troubling news for Goldman Sachs, in the form of a critical report by a Senate committee. There are currently no charges against Goldman, or anyone else in the probe. District Attorney Cy Vance hasn't released the details of what this is all about, but it's a story that could develop in the coming weeks. Greg David, director of the Business & Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, said the details are in a 300-page  report from the Senate committee, "which said Goldman did terrible things.""First of all, it bet against housing when it was putting its clients in housing, and it lied about it to Congress," he said. Some believe the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department — not New York prosecutors and senate committees — should be going after the big banks. David explains what power local authorities have to make a case against these banks, and reviews this week's business and economics headlines. Markets It was the fifth straight week of stock market declines. The Dow gave up 97 more points on Friday, reacting to the bad jobs numbers. The index closed at 12,151. The Nasdaq lost 41 points, ending at 2,733. The S&P 500 slumped to 1,300, down 13 points.

New York lawmakers have agreed to a cap on local property taxes after Governor Andrew Cuomo reached a deal with the legislature to cap local property taxes at 2 percent, or the rate of inflation — whichever is less. Local tax relief was one of the governor's big campaign pledges. But is this bill the game-changer he promised? In another possible deal this week, hedge fund manager David Einhorn said he's in talks to acquire a minority stake in the New York Mets worth $200 million. The Wilpons are having some financial troubles — in part because they invested with Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi scheme and are now being sued by the court appointed bankruptcy trustee. So why would a minority stake be attractive to someone like David Einhorn?On the topic of possible sales and acquisitions, Martha Stewart is set to rejoin the board of her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia — after an enforced five-year ban in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her company has hired Blackstone Group to help her explore a sale. But why sell now, and who's interested?Greg David, director of the Business & Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, weighs in on these questions and talks about other business news that made the headlines this week. MarketsStocks rose ahead of a three-day weekend, led by energy and materials stocks. The Dow rose 39 points,to close at 12,442. The  S&P 500 gained five points, closing at 1331. The Nasdaq was up 14 points, to close at 2,797.Disclosure note: David Einhorn's wife, Cheryl Einhorn, is a paid consultant for WNYC.

The fight to legalize gay marriage in New York heated up this week. According to a new Sienna college poll, New Yorkers want the legislature to focus first on passing a property tax cap. Next, they want an ethics reform bill. Then, voters want lawmakers to address rent control laws, followed by legalizing gay marriage. In real estate headlines, Conde Nast is set to move to the World Trade Center, and hopes to become a magnet for other businesses. It's being hailed as a major development for Lower Manhattan, one that will bring scores of other media companies downtown. Conde Nast helped turn around Times Square when it moved there. Can the lightening strike twice?On the topic of media, it's upfront week in New York. That's when the broadcast and cable networks show off their upcoming seasons to advertisers and media buyers, and hope to sell lots of expensive ad space. It's estimated that the four networks could take a lot more money this year than last. But is TV still king?This week also brought more news on the Mets and Bernie Madoff. Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee who's trying to get money for those people hurt by Madoff's scheme, is leveling new accusations at the Wilpons, the owners of the team. Picard said they tried to shop for "fraud insurance" for their investments with Madoff. Greg David, the director of the Business & Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, reviews this week's business and economic news.

There's more bad news for Social Security and Medicare. The economy, rising health care costs and a drop in taxes have all shortened the life of the two entitlement programs. That is, unless Congress and the White House take action. According to the annual trustees report, Medicare will run out of funds in 2024, five years earlier than expected. The Social Security trust fund will run dry in 2036, one year before officials thought it would. The trustees for the programs say today's news underscores the need for reform. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, chair of the trustee's panel, says larger, more difficult adjustments will help reduce uncertainty.Inflation concernsRising food and gas prices are pushing inflation to its highest level in two and a half years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says inflation rose by more than 3 percent since April of last year. In New York, it rose slightly less than the national rate. But even as consumers pay more, businesses are actually holding off on raising prices even higher as wholesale prices are increasing even faster.  WNYC's "Slice Index" -- an informal survey of pizzerias in the 5 boroughs -- finds a slice of cheese pizza is pretty much holding steady at $2.50 on average.  This, despite many owners telling WNYC that they are paying much higher prices for ingredients, like olive oil and cheese. Markets Stocks fell today, the second weekly loss in a row. Friday, it was worries about Europe's on-going debt crisis that left investors nervous.The Dow Jones fell 100 points to close at 12,596. The S&P 500 lost 11 points, ending the day at 1,338. The Nasdaq fell 35 points, to finish off at 2,828.Wall Street to the Garment DistrictThis week, wiretaps made the case against a leading hedge fund manager, the governor continues shaking up "business as usual" in Albany and we're paying more for food and gas, but the Federal Reserve doesn't seem too worried. Also in New York's garment district, the question might not be, "Who are you wearing?" but "Who's still here?"Greg David, Director of the Business and Economics Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, shares his insight on this week's latest financial news, including analysis of Wall Street accountability, the state budget, and concerns surrounding several high-profile designers leaving the Garment district.

Doug is joined by Greg David, Dir. of Economics and Business Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Prof. David writes a blog and weekly column for “Crain's New York Business.” The two share their contrasting views on current NYC politics.

President’s remarks with Greg David of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Trudy Lieberman of the Center for Advancing Health. Plus: Evgeny Morozov, author of “The Net Delusion” and a look at the rebirth of vinyl.

Greg David of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and David Drucker of Roll Call on what to expect in 2011. Then techPresident’s Nancy Scola on the net neutrality ruling, and Fast Company’s Anya Kamenetz on government 2.0.

In the second part of a two-part series, Doug discusses Medicaid with Lt. Governor Richard Ravitch. Co-hosting once again with Doug this week is Professor Sarah Bartlett, Director of the Urban Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

In the first part of a two-part series, Doug discusses Medicaid with Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch. Co-hosting with Doug this week is Professor Sarah Bartlett, Director of the Urban Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Ronnie welcomes Professor Sarah Bartlett, Director of the Urban Reporting Program at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Prof. Bartlett shares her views on the current climate of Wall Street as well as Main Street.

Bill Moyers sits down with Trudy Lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Marcia Angell, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Bill Moyers sits down with Trudy lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Marcia Angell, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. And, what happens when America's airwaves fill with hate? BIll MOYERS JOURNAl revisits a tough look at the hostile industry of "Shock Jock" media with a hard-hitting examination of its effects on our nation's political discourse.

Joining Doug to talk about the current financial crisis are New York City Comptroller William Thompson and Prof. Sarah Bartlett, director of the urban and business journalism program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Barbara Ross and Judy Ross of Time's Up!, discussing the Critical Mass cycle rides. Michael Dibenedetto of Chat the Planet and Zeyad Kasim, Blogger and student of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on Hometown Baghdad. Plus this week's web video picks.

Zeyad Kasim, blogger and student at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, discusses Iraq. David Danzig, Director of Human Rights First's Prime-Time Torture Project, says TV dramas are inspiring real-life torture. Plus this week's online video review.