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Larry Bensky (born May 1, 1937) is a literary and political journalist with more than forty years experience in both print and broadcast media, as well as a teacher and long-time political activist. He is well known for his work with Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, and for the many nationally broadcast hearings he anchored for the Pacifica network. A native of New York City, Bensky graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1954 and, with departmental honors, from Yale University, where he was managing editor of the ''Yale Daily News''. He is married and has one daughter. ==Career as journalist== Prior to his broadcasting career (and continuing throughout), Bensky worked as a print journalist and editor. He worked at the ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune'' after college, while attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota. He then worked as an editor at Random House, before moving to France, where he was Paris editor of ''The Paris Review'' from 1964 to 1966.〔("About Larry" ), Sunday Salon website〕 He then returned to New York, as an editor of ''The New York Times'' Sunday Book Review, and also wrote daily book reviews. But his views on the war in Vietnam were not well received by editors of the ''Times,'' and several of his reviews and features were rejected. In 1968, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to take over as managing editor of the radical, anti-war publication, ''Ramparts'' magazine,〔Judith Scherr, ("Larry Bensky, Activist-Journalist, Cancels KPFA Show", ) ''Berkeley Daily Planet'', May 4, 2007〕 working closely with editor-in-chief Robert Scheer. After leaving ''Ramparts,'' Bensky worked for a time at San Francisco radio station KSAN-FM, before joining the staff of KPFA-FM in Berkeley. In 1972, he anchored and produced Pacifica Radio's coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, both held in Miami, along with the attendant massive anti-war protests, dubbed "The Siege of Miami".〔 Bensky served as station manager for KPFA from 1974-77. After returning to KSAN as a news anchor, reporter, and talk show host, he narrowly missed accompanying Congressman Leo Ryan to investigate conditions at the Jonestown colony in Guyana in 1978.〔 (Ryan and four journalists were shot to death on an airstrip, precipitating the mass murder-suicide of over 900 people.) In the early 1980s, Bensky turned his attention to the revolutions and American interventions in Nicaragua and El Salvador. He produced the PBS documentary, "Nicaragua: These Same Hands" in 1980. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larry Bensky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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