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| Michael Krasny, Host and Senior Editor, Forum |
Michael Krasny is host of KQED's award-winning Forum, a public affairs program that concentrates on current affairs, the arts, culture, health, business and technology. Forum can be heard on the Internet and on the Sirius Satellite Radio network in addition to KQED 88.5 FM. Before coming to KQED Public Radio in 1993, Krasny hosted a nighttime talk program for KGO Radio and co-anchored a weekly KGO television show called Nightfocus. He has also the hosted Bay TV's Take Issue, a nightly news analysis show, and has hosted for KQED Public Television, KRON-TV and National Public Radio, and provided news commentary for KTVU-TV. Since 1970, he has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University. He is a widely published scholar, critic and fiction writer, as well as a former regular contributor to Mother Jones.
Krasny has interviewed many of the leading newsmakers and cultural emissaries of our time, including Saul Bellow, former President Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Francis Crick, John Kenneth Galbraith, Newt Gingrich, Jane Goodall, V.S. Naipaul, Rosa Parks, Robert Redford, Salman Rushdie, Carl Sagan, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He is the recipient of many awards and honors including the SY Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction, the Eugene Block Award for Human Rights Journalism, the Inclusiveness in Media Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice, and a Koret Foundation Fellowship. He has also been named best talk show host by San Francisco magazine and a number of Bay Area newspapers, by the San Francisco Publicity Club and by Microsoft's Citysearch.
Krasny received his B.A. and M.A. from Ohio University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin.
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