2009 Presenters
Tom Ashbrook
Host of NPR and WBUR’s On Point, award-winning journalist Tom Ashbrook was enlisted by NPR and WBUR-Boston for special coverage in 2001, after a distinguished career in newspaper reporting and editing. Eight years later On Point broadcasts Monday to Friday on 160 stations across the country.
Tom’s career in journalism spans twenty years as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, and author. He spent ten years in Asia — based in India, Hong Kong, and Japan — starting at the South China Morning Post, then as a correspondent for The Boston Globe. (He began his reporting career covering the refugee exodus from Vietnam and the post-Mao opening of China, and has covered turmoil and shifting cultural and economic trends in the United States and around the world, from Somalia and Rwanda to Russia and the Balkans.) At the Globe, where he served as deputy managing editor until 1996, he directed coverage of the first Gulf War and the end of the Cold War.
Tom received the Livingston Prize for National Reporting, and was a 1996 fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation before taking a four-year plunge into Internet entrepreneurship, chronicled in his book The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush.
Visit his show's website On Point Radio for more information.
Appearing in: The Obama Year
