Description:
Sunday Salon is a live call-in program broadcast every Sunday from 9-11 a.m. from the studios of Pacifica radio's original station, KPFA, in Berkeley. It is hosted by longtime Pacifica national affairs correspondent Larry Bensky, and features discussion of current political and social issues, viewed from an alternative perspective by people whose voices are usually not heard on corporate radio or television.

Credits:
host: Larry Bensky About Larry Larry Bensky is a literary and political journalist with more than forty years experience in print and broadcast media. Perhaps best known as national affairs correspondent for Pacifica Radio from 1987-1998, Bensky covered numerous national and international events for Pacifica, including the Iran-contra hearings in 1987, the confirmation hearings for four Supreme Court justices, the 1990 elections in Nicaragua, and numerous demonstrations and protests in Washington and elsewhere. He won the prestigious George Polk award for his coverage of Iran-contra, and has won a record five Gold Reel awards from the National Association of Community Broadcasters. Before his work for Pacifica, Bensky was one of the original "underground" newscasters and talk show hosts on "alternative rock" stations KMPX and KSAN in San Francisco. And before (and during) his broadcasting career, Bensky has been a print journalist and editor, including positions as managing editor of Ramparts Magazine in 1968, Paris editor of The Paris Review (1964-66) and as an editor of the New York Times Book Review. For the past fifteen years he has been a political writer and columnist for the East Bay Express, and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times book review, and The Nation. He was founding managing editor of the Mediachannel (www.mediachannel.org) where he is now senior editor.He has won a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Golden Gadfly award from Media Alliance. He taught broadcast journalism classes for twelve years at Stanford, and now teaches mass communications, journalism, and broadcasting at California State University, Hayward. A native of New York City, he graduated from Yale University. He is married and lives in Berkeley with his wife and daughter.