David Folkenflik

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David Folkenflik
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Folkenflik in 2014
Born (1969-09-15) September 15, 1969 (age 54)
EducationB.A. Cornell University
OccupationReporter
Known forMedia correspondent for NPR
SpouseJesse Baker
Parent(s) Vivian Folkenflik and Robert Folkenflik

David Folkenflik (born September 15, 1969) [1] is an American reporter based in New York City and serving as media correspondent for NPR. He was also one of the hosts of NPR and WBUR-FM's On Point . His work primarily appears on the NPR news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered . He also appeared regularly on the "Media Circus" segment on the former Talk of the Nation . [2]

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Early life and education

Folkenflik is the son of Vivian and Robert Folkenflik, both college professors at the University of California, Irvine. [3] He is of Jewish descent. [4] [5]

In 1991, he graduated from Cornell University with a degree in history. At Cornell, he was editor in chief of The Cornell Daily Sun and a member of the Quill and Dagger, Cornell's senior honor society. [2]

Career

Folkenflik started at The Herald-Sun of Durham, North Carolina. He spent more than 10 years at The Baltimore Sun , covering higher education, the United States Congress, and the mass media, before joining NPR in 2004. [2]

He has reported on many topics, including the undisclosed payments made by New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald to a teenaged webcam child pornographer named Justin Berry [6] and on the ethical challenges faced by reporters who are also medical doctors who have travelled to Haiti to report on and assist with the recovery after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. [7] [8]

Folkenflik is the author of Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, a 2013 history of Rupert Murdoch's global media influence with a focus on the United Kingdom scandals of News Corporation. [9]

Personal life

In 2010, Folkenflik married Jesse Baker. [3]

Sources

  1. "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff: Friday September 14, 2018". Haaretz . September 14, 2018. Saturday: NPR's Media Correspondent, David Folkenflik turns 49...
  2. 1 2 3 National Public Radio (2007-02-22). "David Folkenflik, Correspondent, Media, Arts Information Unit". NPR . Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  3. 1 2 "Jesse Baker, David Folkenflik". The New York Times . 2010-04-30. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  4. Reinherz, Adam (January 14, 2019). "NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik speaks in Pittsburgh". Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle . He recounted growing up Jewish in Orange County, Calif., his beginnings in print media and the current role of contemporary journalists.
  5. Weiner, Robert (January 29, 2014). "Jewish figures on all sides of 'Bridgegate'". New Jersey Jewish News . Robert Folkenflik, professor emeritus at University of California, Irvine, who knew Samson as a child in Hillside and later as a fraternity brother at Zeta Beta Tau on Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus
  6. Folkenflik, David (2007-10-19). "Seizures Hurt Memory, Ex-'Times' Reporter Says". All Things Considered . National Public Radio . Retrieved 2010-01-25 via NPR.org.
  7. Folkenflik, David (2010-01-20). "Reporters Who Are MDs Find Lines Blurred In Haiti". All Things Considered. National Public Radio. Retrieved 2010-01-25 via NPR.org.
  8. "David Folkenflik archive". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2010-01-25 via NPR.org.
  9. Overholser, Geneva (2013-10-17). "'Murdoch's World' is a complicated one". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-10-30.


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