Public radio doesn’t become more diverse if you keep protecting people who abuse women of color, or just women.”, Her successor, African-American Celeste Headlee, said she came into the job hearing about the conflict between Udoji and Hockenberry, and she had hoped that she’d be able to handle him better. These women, his putative equals, didn’t describe sexual run-ins with him, but, instead, bullying behavior that undermined their performance.

Race, racism and privilege are central themes this summer, but they're anything but new. Where things got uncomfortable was over email. He gave a negative review of Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood.He attended the … I also spoke with interns and an assistant, several of whom described a man who, as Jolenta Greenberg (who was in her late 20s when she worked there for three years) put it, had “trouble with boundaries.” “There were lots of [sex] jokes,” said Greenberg, who’s now a podcast host and producer. In August, John Hockenberry, a highly regarded, award-winning broadcast and radio journalist, left his nearly decade-long job hosting the news-and-talk radio program “The Takeaway” on WNYC. This Fashion Protester Picked the Wrong Show. “I just need to get this off my chest because it makes me feel awful to be carrying this around with me,” she wrote. The second group of grievances came from the women of color who served as Hockenberry’s co-hosts — “The Takeaway” was explicitly founded, in 2008, to bring more diverse voices to public radio. “Your shoulders are really distracting,” he offered midway through her pitch. Prince George may keep his ancient megalodon tooth. Meanwhile, producers from “The Takeaway” kept contacting me to talk about the toppling of the South Korean government and the growing tension with North Korea. The volume of his communications unnerved her, but things came to a head when the two were exchanging messages about the upcoming wedding of a “Takeaway” staffer. (She declined to comment; she reportedly signed a nondisclosure agreement with the station.) Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassment, An NYC Wedding With Nearly 300 Guests Was Raided by Police, How This TikTok Star Gets Her Skin So Good, No One Does Math Better Than Representative Katie Porter, Miuccia Prada Is Too Wise for Post-Pandemic Predictions, Stella McCartney Might Not Recognize You Anymore, The Plague of Murder Hornets Isn’t Done With Us Yet, Tens of Thousands of Airline Workers Just Lost Their Jobs. As a solution, her boss arranged sessions for Headlee with a “radio personality” coach, who Headlee said focused mainly on teaching her how to deal with a “difficult personality” — how to keep from getting “rattled.” (As far as Headlee knows, Hockenberry was not asked to get any coaching — which isn’t surprising, she added, because one of the station’s execs told her that the only reason Hockenberry was “misbehaving” was that she wasn’t doing her job well.) Another woman who also asked for anonymity said that in 2013 she’d given notice that she would be leaving the show for personal reasons when suddenly Hockenberry started Gchatting her at all hours. All rights reserved. Loewe’s “Flamenco” clutch has a bit of Spanish flair.

Add John Hockenberry, the award-winning New York Public Radio host, to the growing list of high-profile men in media to be publicly accused of sexual harassment in recent months. After Congress failed to pass another stimulus deal. It took only a few phone calls before I found out that it wasn’t. This source as cited in The Hockenberry-Hillsberry Family by Ardath Hillberry Yehle. Please read our updated Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, effective on December 19, 2019. On December 12, eight women met in New York for a conversation, led by Rose McGowan, about the challenges of coming forward against powerful men. “You shouldn’t stay here just as a ‘diversity hire,’” he told her, according to Chideya.
I majored in music, and now I’m on the journalism faculty of a university. Nisha Kanabar is showcasing the diversity of luxury African designers. The Trump era resurfaces the unresolved riddle of the Constitution, The filibuster that tried and failed to stop the advancement of equality, 59 years ago today. “Men like John are protected for decades.”, In early November, a week before I contacted her, Kristen Meinzer wrote a letter to Walker reporting what happened to her, a year and a half after she’d left WNYC. A final stand against a tide of history that was overwhelming the forces of racism and white supremacy that dominated the South and Southern lawmakers in Congress. Cute Child Allowed to Plunder Spoils of the Deep. John Hockenberry was born in Ohio on June 4, 1956.Journalist and author who hosted the Public Radio show The Takeaway which airs in New York. The four-time Emmy winner and Peabody A… Typically, she said, WNYC put morning-show staff up at in hotels near the station when a snowstorm was predicted because they had to be in the office as early as 3:30 a.m. “It was winter of 2010, or perhaps January of 2011,” the producer, then in her early 30s, said.

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“I was just doing my job.”, Another former female “Takeaway” producer, who asked not to be named, recounted a physical encounter similar to Meinzer’s. It horrifies me that I made the talented and driven people I worked with feel uncomfortable, and that the stress around putting together a great show was made worse by my behavior. “It’s the guilt. My own contact with Hockenberry, who is paralyzed from the chest down due to injuries he suffered in a car accident as a teenager, started in December 2014, when I was a guest on his show to discuss my book Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite. John Hockenberry has returned to his roots in public radio — where he was one of the medium's original innovators — after 15 years in network and cable television. They don’t sway voters, and Trump refuses to follow the rules. We’ve always had this special thing.’ I pushed him away, and said ‘This cannot happen.’ I ran out of the room.”.
Almost a year later, in October 2015, he sent me an email, via my publicist, requesting a meeting. In the meantime, Hockenberry somehow figured out that he’d gone too far with her and sent her what she calls a “heartfelt apology.” Since she was on her way out anyway, she decided not to bring the matter to HR (though her bosses had indicated they’d support her if she wanted to go that route). Media appearances are part of the job for a writer. Each time I checked if, by chance, a guest host would be interviewing me.

In a number of states, you can already cast your vote. What does it take to speak out against sexual assault and harassment? The messages themselves weren’t much, just greetings mixed with “xoxo,” but she was flummoxed by his attentions, since in the office she had had virtually no contact with him.