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Next Time on Deadline NOW
Friday, May 9
Politics
Fletcher Word, publisher and editor of The Sojourner Truth, and Tom Troy, staff writer for The Blade join host Jack Lessenberry to discuss this week's primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, and other issues of interest in this presidential election year.
On the Web: www.thetruthtoledo.com
On the Web: www.toledoblade.com
Coming Up on Deadline NOW
Friday, May 16
Domestic violence
Gabrielle Davis, J.D., is director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at The University of Toledo College of Law. In April 2008, Davis was awarded the Public Interest Law Award from Advocates for Basic Legal Equality for her tireless efforts to help low-income and minority victims of domestic violence. Currently she is leading a commnity-wide team that is studying domestic violence homicides in northwest Ohio.
On the Web: www.law.utoledo.edu/students/faculty/GDavis/DVReport.pdf
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Jack Lessenberry, a member of the journalism faculty at Wayne State University, is WUOM-FM's senior political analyst and the host of "The Jack Lessenberry Show," on Michigan Radio, the only daily talk show designed to discuss important Michigan issues.
He also is or been a writer for many national and regional publications, including Vanity Fair, Esquire, George, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. Currently, he is a contributing editor and columnist for the Metro Times, the Traverse-City Record Eagle and the Toledo Blade, and formerly for the Oakland Press and the Heritage Newspaper Group in Wayne and Washtenaw counties. He also serves as The Blade's writing coach and ombudsman.
Lessenberry has reported as foreign correspondent for and executive national editor of The Detroit News, during which time he reported from more than 40 countries. He has also worked for other newspapers in Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio, and was Editor-in-Chief of both Detroit Monthly and Corporate Detroit magazines.
He also does occasional analysis for television stations in Detroit, and won a National Emmy award in 1995 for one of two Frontline documentaries he helped report and produce on Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
Lessenberry also was featured in a March 1996 A&E Biography he helped produce on Kevorkian, and has assisted on two more for British television, and on a Court TV documentary about Detroit and the Belle Isle bridge slaying.
He was named the Journalist of the Year in 2002 by the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Lessenberry, has a master's degree in Journalism and East European studies from the University of Michigan.
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