Talk:Ira Flatow

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Iflatow (talk · contribs) / Flatow, Ira This user has contributed to the article.

Conflict of Interest[edit]

I noticed that User:Iflatow has made contributions to this article. Aside from them being unsourced and against the COI policy (presuming that user is in fact the subject of this article, as would stand to reason based on editing history), I have no complaints about the edits themselves. -- ke4roh (talk) 16:06, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Uncited material in need of citations[edit]

Since this material was fact-tagged last April and has not been sourced, I'm moving it here, until citations can be provided for it per WP:V/WP:IRS/WP:NOR/WP:CS, et al. Nightscream (talk) 03:52, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Flatow was hired by the newly-formed National Public Radio in Washington, DC in 1971 by Bill Siemering who was his former employer at WBFO in Buffalo and the first NPR program director and creator of the NPR flagship program "All Things Considered...". In Washington he covered the environment, health and medicine news, and technology stories. While at NPR, Flatow helped found the NPR science unit and served on the production team for NPR's first remote broadcast: the UN Conference On the Human Environment in Stockholm.^{[citation needed]}

In 1991 he began to host the Friday edition of Talk of the Nation which became known as Science Friday. Flatow pioneered NPR's entry into the digital world becoming the first radio program to be nationally "broadcast" on the Internet in 1993 and the first to be podcast. Science Friday is also the home for the annual radio broadcast of the Ig Nobel Prize awards, heard each Friday following Thanksgiving.^{[citation needed]}

All the material in the current article is now sourced. I removed claims about early life that could not be verified by sources previously in the article or that I could find in my Internet searches. His birth date is now sourced by Amazon.com, which I think is pretty reliable, since they have 3 of his books listed. Although most of the material above can be sourced, I don't think it is necessary.--I am One of Many (talk) 10:12, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I used to listen to Ira F. religiously when I was in college, and then not so much for 20 years, but lately have been playing the podcasts quite a bit for my kids since they are 6 & 8 and can appreciate most of it. I've noticed Ira is not doing all the shows anymore. Is he thinking of retiring and trying out different possible successors? I have to say my very favorite thing about Ira are the intentionally clueless questions to keep things at at least a semi-basic level for the audience. When I'm listening with the kids, I'm like "umm, no??" lol. I don't think any replacement can match that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericwfrost (talk • contribs) 23:12, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]