Jacob Soboroff

Jacob

I'm the AMC News correspondent, host of KCET's SoCal Wanderer, and executive director of Why Tuesday? I co-hosted NBC's School Pride and have contributed reporting to CNN, NPR's Weekend Edition and the PBS series WIRED Science. I'm a member of the City Year Los Angeles associates board. I got my BA in politics and MA in political theory and philosophy from New York University. During college, I was an advance man to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and presidential candidate Howard Dean. Watch my reel at jacobsoboroff.com/reel.







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Yesterday I visited KCRW during a taping of Left, Right and Center and made this video while hanging out. In the video are Arianna Huffington and host Matt Miller. Thanks to KCRW producer and PR director Sarah Spitz for having me.

Yesterday afternoon at PDF2008 Davar Iran Ardalan, Senior Supervisory Producer at Weekend Edition Sunday, and I sat down with Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, MySpace IMPACT Director Lee Brenner and blogger Matt Stoller of OpenLeft.com for a 10-minute conversation about how what they do is literally changing politics as we know it — and maybe public radio too.

NPR’s very own Andy Carvin makes a cameo appearance too. He streamed our entire chat live with his Qik cam so here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the behind-the-scenes interview. The high-quality version will be posted to NPR Sunday Soapbox later this morning. Many more interviews to come there from PDF2008 in the weeks ahead.