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Born 1956 (age 58-59) Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.A. Children 3, a daughter and two sons Spouse Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook (m. 1975–2014) Books The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush Similar People Jack Beatty, Diane Rehm, Jane Clayson Johnson, Terry Gross, Robin Young | ||
Tom ashbrook the power of storytelling in the digital age
Tom Ashbrook is an American journalist and radio broadcaster. He hosts the nationally syndicated, public radio call-in program On Point.
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- Tom ashbrook the power of storytelling in the digital age
- Undergraduate commencement 2012 tom ashbrook
- Early life and education
- Early career
- On Point
- Personal life
- Awards
- References
Undergraduate commencement 2012 tom ashbrook
Early life and education
Born in 1956 on a farm in Bloomington, Illinois, he studied American history at Yale University and Gandhi's independence movement at Andhra University in India.
Early career
Ashbrook worked in Alaska as a surveyor and dynamiter of oil fields to help pay for college. After leaving for Asia, he produced English-dubbed kung fu films in Hong Kong where he spent a decade as a foreign correspondent in India, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. His first newspaper job was at the South China Morning Post. During the late 1980s Ashbrook became foreign editor for The Boston Globe.
As a correspondent Ashbrook covered 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."
Ashbrook was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University during which time he decided to leave the Globe in 1996 and create an Internet startup with college friend Rolly Rouse. This company eventually became homeportfolio.com. Ashbrook wrote a book called The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush about his experience in Internet entrepreneurship.
On Point
Ashbrook joined public radio following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when he was enlisted by NPR and WBUR-Boston for special coverage. He currently hosts the National Public Radio show On Point.
On Point is a two-hour radio program, airing five days per week, Monday through Friday. Each hour of the two-hour broadcast is structured as a stand-alone show, focusing on a specific topic; Ashbrook interviews a specific guest (or guests) who has relevant expertise on the topic and then listeners are invited to call into the show and ask questions or share their opinions. The first hour segment of Friday's show is a news wrap up of the previous week's top stories called "Week in the News" which regularly includes "On Point News Analyst" Jack Beatty. Multiple times a year, On Point is recorded in front of a live studio audience. Ashbrook has interviewed Cheryl Strayed, Atul Gawande and many other guests in front of a live studio audience.
Ashbrook oversees a staff of 10 who assist with research and show preparation - typically compiling information relating to the topics to be discussed on the following day's program for Ashbrook to take and read.
Senior On Point news analyst and former editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Jack Beatty is a regular guest and contributor on the program.
Personal life
Tom Ashbrook has a daughter and two sons. On November 6, 2014, his wife of 39 years, Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook, died of cancer. Ashbrook subsequently married Cathryn Ann Clüver in June of 2017, after meeting in March of 2016 regarding an On Point story concerning refugees. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Ashbrook underwent heart bypass surgery in November 2007 and was off air until January 2, 2008, when he discussed his medical journey in a show with his doctors and nurses.
Awards
Livingston Award for National Reporting - 1996