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Baltimore Radio Show Host Marc Steiner to be Honored for His 20 Years On the Air and 50 Years Work for Social Justice Causes
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The Board of the Center for Emerging Media, a nonprofit dedicated to using all forms of media to educate and promote dialogue about issues important to our community and world, will honor Marc Steiner at a special “20/50” event, a dinner and party on Saturday, April 6, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the American Visionary Art Museum, 800 Key Highway. The event will celebrate Steiner’s 20 years in public radio and 50 years fighting for social justice and human rights issues. Tickets for the dinner and party are $125, tickets for the party only are $40. To purchase tickets, go to www.steinershow.org/2050.
Steiner became active in Civil Rights work as a teenager. In 1963, at the age of 16, he became the youngest civil rights worker ever to be arrested in Maryland. In the 50 years ensuing, he has dedicated himself to working for a more just world, creating programs to benefit at-risk youth, prisoners, and the poor. Steiner’s career on public radio started in March of 1993, at WJHU, the public radio station of Johns Hopkins University, and the Marc Steiner Show quickly became one of the most popular radio shows in Baltimore. In 2001 Steiner founded the movement to purchase WJHU and create WYPR. In 2008 Steiner was awarded the most prestigious award in broadcast journalism, the Peabody Award. Today the Marc Steiner Show airs on WEAA, the public radio station of Morgan State University.
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Steiner founded the nonprofit Center for Emerging Media (CEM) in 2000. The first official function of CEM was to produce shows about the Hubble Telescope. In 2005, CEM produced a 6-part radio documentary upon the 30th anniversary of the end of the Viet Nam War, called Shared Weight. In 2007 CEM produced a series showcasing stories of the working poor in their own voices, called Just Words, which won a Peabody Award the following year. In 2008, CEM assumed full production of The Marc Steiner Show, as well as targeted series such as Sound Bites and Beyond the Spin.
