Prof. Lonnie Isabel’s podcast “The Reporter’s Notebook,” which is produced in the radio studio of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, is now broadcast weekly on WHCR, 90.3 FM in Harlem and Upper Manhattan and at www.WHCR.org.

The podcast features interviews with global personalities and news makers who operate and think on the edge. These include refugees, aid workers, writers, artists, journalists, innovators, and mavericks – people who look at the world in compelling ways and have thoughts on how to make it a better place.

On Tuesday, Nov. 24th, Isabel interviewed three singer/songwriters with the Songwriter’s Circle, which held a competition last week for original compositions. The guests performed live in the studio.

Tina Pamintuan, director of radio projects and initiatives at the CUNY J-School, produces “The Reporter’s Notebook,” and the School’s senior audio engineer, Chad Bernhard, is the engineer. Past podcasts can be found at http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/reportersnotebook.

Isabel, director of the CUNY J-School’s international reporting program, is former deputy managing editor of Newsday, and was responsible for supervising the national, foreign, state, Washington, health, and science staffs. During his 16-year career at the newspaper, Isabel also served as assistant managing editor, overseeing coverage of the September 11th aftermath and the Iraq War, and as national editor, covering the 2000 presidential campaign and the Oklahoma City bombing. Earlier in his career, he worked as a reporter and assistant city editor at The Oakland Tribune, and as a political reporter at The Boston Globe.

He was appointed a Poynter Ethics Fellow in 2006. He has taught news writing at Hofstra and San Francisco State universities. He received a B.A. in African Studies from Amherst College.