Howie Carr

Howie Carr (born 1952) is an American broadcaster and award winning journalist, and the number one drive-time talk-radio host in the greater Boston area and New England.

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1952 - American - Broadcaster - Journalist - Boston - New England

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Carr is a native of Portland, Maine, a graduate of Deerfield Academy and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He now lives in Wellesley, and is married, with five daughters.

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Portland, Maine - Deerfield Academy - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Phi Beta Kappa - Wellesley

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Aside from broadcasting, he is an award-winning front-page columnist for the Boston Herald. Known for his scathing exposes of local politicians, he has raised lots of eyebrows and voices over the years. The day after President Clinton testified, C-SPAN broadcast Carr's entire show.

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Boston Herald - Clinton - C-SPAN

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As well as being heard on WRKO AM 680, he is syndicated across the country and streamed on-line through his website. He has interviewed numerous politicians, authors, and celebrities. He has worked as a reporter and commentator for Boston television stations WGBH and WLVI. In 1980–81, Carr was the Boston City Hall bureau chief of the Boston Herald American, and he later worked as the paper's State House bureau chief. As a political reporter for WNEV (now WHDH), his coverage of then mayor Kevin White was so relentless that after the mayor announced he wasn't running again, he told the Boston Globe that one of the things he enjoyed most about his impending retirement was not having Carr chase him around the city.

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WRKO - Boston - WGBH - WLVI - 1980 - 81 - Boston Herald American - WNEV - WHDH - Kevin White - Boston Globe

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In 1985, he won the National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, for Essays and Criticism. In television, he has been nominated for an Emmy Award. Carr starred as himself in the 1998 John Travolta film A Civil Action.

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1985 - National Magazine Award - Pulitzer Prize - Emmy Award - 1998 - John Travolta - A Civil Action

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For years Carr has had an ongoing feud with former fellow Herald columnist Mike Barnicle, calling him a "hack" and giving out his home phone number. Barnicle called Carr "a pathetic figure" and asked "Can you imagine being as consumed with envy and jealousy toward me for as long as it has consumed him?" http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/05/07/badboys/

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In 2002, the Herald reported Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy said of a 14-year old rape victim "Tell her to get over it." In the ensuing controversy, a February 20 column by Carr mentioned Murphy's daughters in passing and visitors to Carr's chatroom posted the name of Murphy's hometown and said someone should "rape all of his daughters twice." Murphy and witnesses said he never made those comments in the courtroom and in 2005 Murphy won a $2.09 million libel suit. During the trial Murphy testified after reading Carr's column "I wanted to kill Howie Carr."

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2002 - Ernest Murphy - Rape - February 20 - 2005 - Libel

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