{{short description|American broadcast journalist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | image = Callie_Crossley.jpg | alt= | imagesize = | caption = Callie Crossley, Host, Under the Radar, WGBH Radio, Boston Media Critic and TV Commentator 2013 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|Year|Month|Day}} --> | birth_place = Memphis, Tennessee | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Broadcast journalist, radio and television | language = | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = United States | education = | alma_mater = Wellesley College (B.A., 1973)<ref name="WELLESLEYBOSTON">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wellesleyboston.org/news |title="Wellesley Boston Alumnae News" |access-date=August 30, 2012 |archive-date=April 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409083750/http://www.wellesleyboston.org/news |url-status=dead }}</ref> | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Eyes on the Prize | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award Gold Baton, Academy Award nomination, Emmy Award, Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://www.calliecrossley.com}} | portaldisp = }} '''Callie Crossley''' is an American broadcast journalist and radio presenter in the Boston area.
In March 2013 she began hosting a new radio program entitled ''Under the Radar'' and continues to contribute to WGBH Radio's "Boston Public Radio", where various commentators talk with guests about local and national politics, public affairs, arts, and culture.
==Education== Crossley is a graduate of Wellesley College class of 1973,<ref name="WELLESLEYBOSTON"/> and holds an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Pine Manor College, and a Cambridge College Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She received a Nieman Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Institute of Politics at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.<ref>{{cite web|title=Harvard University Institute of Politics|url=http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Former-Fellows/Callie_Crossley|accessdate=May 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928051645/http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Former-Fellows/Callie_Crossley|archive-date=September 28, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
== Career == {{external media | float = right | width = 300px, 22em, 30% | video1 = [https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_151-db7vm43n05 Unedited interview] conducted by Callie Crossley in 1985 with Andrew Young. From the Eyes on the Prize series, Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_151-db7vm43n05|title = Eyes on the Prize; Interview with Andrew Young}}</ref> }} From December 2010 through June 2012, she was the host of ''The Callie Crossley Show'', a one-hour daily talk show on WGBH-FM, 89.7.<ref name="Show">{{cite web | url=http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Callie-Crossley-Show-855 | title=The Callie Crossley Show | accessdate=May 12, 2011}}</ref> Past guests on ''The Callie Crossley Show'' include filmmaker Errol Morris, historian Howard Zinn, authors Junot Díaz, Frank Bruni, Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead, Isabel Wilkerson, David Remnick, lawyer/author Charles Ogletree, actors Rachel Dratch, Leonard Nimoy, Anna Deavere Smith, and Wayne Brady, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and many more.
A television and radio commentator, moderator and public speaker, Crossley lectures on the collision of old and new media, media and politics, media literacy, and the intersection of race, gender and media. She is a frequent panelist on WGBH-TV's ''Beat the Press'',<ref name="Beatthepress">{{cite web | url=http://beatthepress.org/ | title=Beat the Press: Talking back to Media | accessdate=May 12, 2011}}</ref> and a frequent host of WGBH-TV's ''Basic Black''. Crossley is a regular contributor on Public Radio International's ''The Takeaway'', and has guest hosted NPR's ''Tell Me More'' with Michel Martin, for which she also contributes commentary about wine. She is an occasional commentator on CNN's ''Reliable Sources'',<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/reliable.sources/ | title=Reliable Sources – - CNN.com Blogs | date=June 15, 2012}}</ref> and appears regularly on Fox Morning News WXFT-TV.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morning/callie-crossley-interview-20110518 |title=Callie Crossley Interview on My Fox Boston |access-date=May 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329152104/http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morning/callie-crossley-interview-20110518 |archive-date=March 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
== Personal life == Callie Crossley, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, is a barbecue connoisseur with a southern heritage.<ref name=THM>[http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/callie-crossley Callie Crossley Biography], ''The HistoryMakers'', April 23, 2013.</ref>
==Awards== Crossley produced two of the six hours in the 1987 television documentary series ''Eyes on the Prize'', Show Four--"No Easy Walk" and Show 6--"Bridge to Freedom", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1988 during the 60th Academy Awards.<ref name="IMDb">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1988#Oscar_Best_Documentary_Features |title=IMDb: Eyes on the Prize |accessdate=2008-11-19|work=IMDb}}</ref>
Crossley received the 2013 Alumnae Achievement Award from Wellesley College, the highest honor given to alumnae for excellence and distinction in their fields of endeavor and has been presented annually since 1970.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HiD_fiPovI Video of Award Presentation]</ref>
Crossley is recognized as a "history maker" in the nation's largest African-American video oral history collection.<ref name=THM />
==Current activities== In addition to hosting her radio program, Crossley is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow [https://web.archive.org/web/20110424091118/http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/visitingfellows/visiting_fellows_bios.asp Visiting Lecturer], guest lecturing at colleges and universities about media, politics, and the intersection of race, gender and media.<ref name="Woodrow">{{cite web | url=http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/visitingfellows/visiting_fellows_bios.asp | title=Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program – Visiting Fellows | publisher=Council of Independent Colleges | accessdate=May 12, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424091118/http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/visitingfellows/visiting_fellows_bios.asp | archive-date=April 24, 2011 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> She is a featured speaker on Forum Network, a public media service of PBS, NPR and Corporation for Public Broadcasting providing a free online video lecture series featuring the world's leading scientists, educators, artists and authors [https://web.archive.org/web/20111002035141/http://forum-network.org/speaker/callie-crossley Forum Network]. Crossley also serves as a judge for several major journalism awards- including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism<ref>{{cite web|title=Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Awards in Broadcast News|url=http://www.dupontawards.org/default.aspx|publisher=Alfred I. dupont Columbia University Awards in Broadcast News|accessdate=May 26, 2011|archive-date=May 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528004631/http://dupontawards.org/default.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> – and she writes the blog "The Crushed Grape Report".<ref name="Grape">{{cite web | url=http://thecrushedgrapereport.typepad.com/about.html | title=About Me | accessdate=May 12, 2011}}</ref>
She sits on several Boston-based Boards including the Boston Museum, the Ford Hall Forum, Cambridge Reads, and the Boston Book Festival.<ref>{{cite news |title=In the news: Callie Crossley |url=https://www.baystatebanner.com/2022/08/31/in-the-news-callie-crossley-3/ |work=The Bay State Banner |date=August 31, 2022}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://calliecrossley.com/ Callie Crossley website] * [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation.aspx Callie Crossley at the Nieman Foundation] * {{C-SPAN|53425}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120231/http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/01/media-race-and-polarization/?iref=allsearch "Media, Race and Polarization"], ''Reliable Sources'', CNN, April 1, 2012 * [http://wgbhnews.org/people/callie-crossley "Bio: Callie Crossley"], WGBH News * [http://issuu.com/wellesley/docs/2013_summer_issuu ''"A Voice for the Unheard"''], ''Wellesley Magazine'', Spring 2013 * [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/callie-crossley The African American Video Oral History Collection]
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