Anthony Brooks
Anthony Brooks has more than twenty five years of experience in public radio, working as a producer, editor, reporter, and most recently, as a fill-in host for 91制片厂. For years, Brooks has worked as a Boston-based reporter for 91制片厂, covering regional issues across New England, including politics, criminal justice, and urban affairs. He has also covered higher education for 91制片厂, and during the 2000 presidential election he was one of 91制片厂's lead political reporters, covering the campaign from the early primaries through the Supreme Court's Bush V. Gore ruling. His reports have been heard for many years on 91制片厂's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
Beyond 91制片厂, Brooks has also worked as a senior producer on the team that helped design and launch The World for Public Radio International. He was also a senior correspondent for InsideOut Documentaries at WBUR in Boston. His piece "Testing DNA" and "The Death Penalty-InsideOut" won the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Award for best radio feature. Over the years, Brooks has won numerous other broadcast awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Regional Broadcasters Award, the AP Broadcasters Award, the Ohio State Award, and the Robert L. Kozik Award for environmental reporting for his Soundprint documentary, "Chernobyl Revisited."
Beyond his reporting, Brooks is also a frequent fill-in host for 91制片厂's On Point as well as Here and Now, produced by WBUR, and for 91制片厂's Day to Day.
In 2006 Brooks was awarded a Knight Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he spent a year of sabbatical studies focusing on urban violence and wrongful convictions.
Brooks grew up in Boston, Italy, and Switzerland.
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Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked in their fight over health care. -
Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage over the next 10 years due to the massive tax and spending bill President Trump signed in July.
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A new documentary, "It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley," opens in theaters Friday.
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The Texas House of Representatives is at a standstill, after Democratic members left the state to block a vote on redrawing Texas's congressional maps midway through the special session.
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Patrick Roath hopes to ride a youth movement into Congress and oust Rep. Stephen Lynch, who is currently serving his 13th term.
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Harvard University boasts nearly 7,000 foreign students.
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President Trump's trade war and talk about taking over Canada have upset our neighbors to the north.
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In New Hampshire, thousands of Democratic voters have switched party affiliation to Republican or undeclared ahead of the state's primary next week. Some say they switched to support Nikki Haley.
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Some families of the victims of the Lewiston, Maine mass shooting, which killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley, now find themselves unexpectedly in the role of gun control activists.
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Rep. Dean Phillip's campaign against President Biden is unwelcome by many fellow Democrats, but it reflects growing concern in his party that the president's reelection effort is in trouble.
