This isn’t really a Brooklyn story; it’s a NYC story. Yet, so many from Brooklyn listen to and call into the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC that I had to mention it:

WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show has been recognized with a George Foster Peabody Award for broadcast excellence in 2007.

Here’s what the judges had to say: “Lehrer’s talk show is a wide open yet shrewdly managed forum in which every sort of political, social and cultural issue is considered and where New Yorkers, in all their diversity, can get to know each other.”

How true. I am an avid listening of his show. Why, I listen to his show at least three times a week. And his election coverage has been fantastic, too.

As a blogger, I have also been on Lehrer’s radio show, as well as his CUNY television show. So I’ve met Brian Lehrer!

According to the press release I received from the WNYC publicist, David Bukszpan:

“Segments from the show submitted to the Peabody Committee centered on the theme “Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides.” Topics included conversations on gentrification and the black middle class; a recurring series of eye-level reports from Baghdad by Time Baghdad bureau chief, Bobby Ghosh; efforts to find a middle ground in the Middle East; “Democracy’s Living Room,” the show’s listener call-in segments on the politics of citizenship; a debate on branding the Bronx with the tagline, “Yes the Bronx”; and the program’s innovative crowdsourcing initiative, a form of citizen journalism that asks listeners to report on a single issue from their own perspective and then analyzes the overall results

The Brian Lehrer Show airs weekdays from 10am-noon on 93.9 FM and AM 820, and is available for on-demand streaming and downloading at www.wnyc.org.