Ira Flatow (born March 9, 1949) is a radio and television journalist who hosts National Public Radio's popular Science Friday. He is probably best known on TV for hosting Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families.
Flatow was born into a Jewish family in New York City where his first experience with a television news program was in his high school. In 1967, however, Flatow entered college to pursue an engineering...
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Ira Flatow (born March 9, 1949) is a radio and television journalist who hosts National Public Radio's popular Science Friday. He is probably best known on TV for hosting Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families.
Flatow was born into a Jewish family in New York City where his first experience with a television news program was in his high school. In 1967, however, Flatow entered college to pursue an engineering degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1971. He began working in radio at WBFO, in Buffalo, New York and his first news stories covered antiwar demonstrations and riots. Flatow's first science stories were created in 1970 during the first Earth Day. In 1971, he became the news director of WBFO.
Flatow was hired by the newly-formed National Public Radio in Washington, DC in 1971. There he covered the environment, health and medicine news, and technology stories. While at NPR, Flatow...
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