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Episode 214: Remembering Molly Ivins

Remembering Molly IvinsMolly Ivins was a star reporter at the Texas state legislature long before he became a nationally known writer.  We remember her in a short documentary portrait and in a discussion about the state of journalism today. (airing week of May 13th)

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Panelists:

Lorraine Branham has been the director of the School of Journalism and the G.B. Dealey Professor at the University of Texas at Austin since September 2002, a post she assumed after 25 years as a newspaper editor, editorial writer and reporter. Prior to coming to the University of Texas she was the assistant to the publisher and a member of the editorial board at The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Professor Branham was senior vice president and executive editor of The Tallahassee Democrat for four years, overseeing the newsroom and the editorial board. She also worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer as associate managing editor for features, associate editorial page editor, New Jersey editor and assistant city editor. Professor Branham started her newspaper career as a reporter at the Philadelphia Tribune, a twice-weekly African-American newspaper, after graduating from Temple University with a B.A. in Radio, Television, and Film. Her research interests revolve around women in media management and diversity in the media. Professor Branham is a member of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Association of Minority Media Executives and the National Association of Black Journalists.

Lou Dubose has covered Texas politics for thirty years. He worked as editor of The Texas Observer and politics editor of The Austin Chronicle. He is the co-author with Molly Ivins of two New York Times Random House bestsellers, Shrub: The Short and Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush¹s America. In 2003 he wrote, with Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid, The Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress, released in paperback by Public Affairs in 2006 as The Hammer Comes Down: The Nasty, Brutish and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay. In 2006 he wrote, with Texas Observer editor Jake Bernstein: Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency. He is completing a Random House book on the Bill of Rights, which he started with Molly Ivins. In May, he shifts his focus to The Washington Spectator, where he will serve as editor. He divides his time between Austin and Washington , D.C.

Evan Smith joined the staff of Texas Monthly as a senior editor in January 1992. In February 1993, he was promoted to deputy editor, and in July 2000 he was promoted to editor.  In May 2002, he added the title of executive vice president. Since Smith took over as editor, Texas Monthly has been nominated for fourteen National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.  In April 2003, Texas Monthly was awarded the National Magazine Award for General Excellence for the third time in its history.  A New York native, Smith has a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Hamilton College and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University . He previously held editorial positions at a number of national magazines; most recently at The New Republic, where he was deputy editor. He has written for GQ, O, The Oprah Magazine, and other national magazines.  He hosts a weekly interview program, Texas Monthly Talks, that airs on PBS stations all across Texas , and he is an occasional guest on numerous other TV and radio shows.   



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