Laura Flanders
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| Born | born December 1961 (age 46) United Kingdom |
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| Occupation | Journalist, Radio presenter, and writer |
| Parents | Michael Flanders and Claudia Cockburn |
| Relatives | Stephanie Flanders (sister) Olivia Wilde (half-cousin) Alexander Cockburn (half-uncle) Andrew Cockburn (half-uncle) Patrick Cockburn (half-uncle) Sarah Caudwell (half-aunt) Leslie Cockburn (half-aunt by marriage) Claud Cockburn (grandfather) |
Laura Flanders (b. December 1961) is a British-born American journalist whose writing has appeared in The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Tompaine.com, and ZNet. She has also contributed Op-Ed pieces to the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the daughter of British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders and wife Claudia Cockburn.
Flanders has worked in radio for many years. She hosted the radio show Your Call weekdays on KALW before joining Air America in 2004 with the Saturday and Sunday evening program The Laura Flanders Show, six hours each weekend, which, in 2007, became the weekly one-hour Radio Nation on Air America Radio.
Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR's nationally-syndicated radio program. She has also written several books: Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (2007), Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (2004), a study of the women in President George W. Bush's Cabinet and Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (1997) a collection of essays. She edited The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush (2004).
Flanders' TV appearances include Lou Dobbs Journal, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes and C-SPAN's Washington Journal, as well as the MSNBC program Donahue, Good Morning America and the Canadian news discussion program, counterSpin on CBC Television. (Note that this is not the same CounterSpin as mentioned above.)
[edit] Family
BBC TV economics reporter Stephanie Flanders is her sister, British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders was her father and journalists Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn are her uncles.
[edit] External links
- Laura Flanders website
- Flanders' Air America Radio blog
- Washington Blade article on Flanders and Rachel Maddow
- Toward Freedom article on Flanders
