Cary Barbor
All Thing Considered Host, Reporterczahaby@wgcu.org
Cary Barbor is the local host of All Things Considered and a reporter for WGCU. She was a producer for Martha Stewart Radio on Sirius XM, where she hosted a live interview show with authors of new books called Books and Authors. She was a producer for The Leonard Lopate Show, a live, daily show that covered arts, culture, politics, and food on New York City’s public radio station WNYC. She also worked as a producer on Studio 360, a weekly culture magazine; and The Sunday Long Read, a show that features in-depth conversations with journalists and other writers. She has filed stories for The Pulse and Here & Now.
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NPR released its much-anticipated year-end “Books We Love” list this week. -
Litigator Katie Blankenship was named Florida Director for PEN America this week.
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We hear from Christian Kiefer, whose new novel THE HEART OF IT ALL is set in a struggling rust-belt town in Ohio.
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The Biden administration is requesting emergency supplemental funding that can help families across America and particularly in Florida.
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Starting in June 2021, college athletes in Florida were allowed to earn compensation for their name, image, and likeness. A team at FGCU is getting some help with that.
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A rising star in American politics urges his fellow veterans to get help with mental health if they need it.
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Memoir of an army captain in Afghanistan who returns home and does the hard work to recover from PTSD.
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For national STEM day, WGCU visited a local robotics team.
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Queer youth will tell their personal stories at an event this week in Naples.
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Aubrey Gordon is a well-informed voice on anti-fat bias as well as misinformation surrounding weight loss. She talks to us about her new book You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths about Fat People.
