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Freelance Writing Direct with Estelle: Conversations with authors, journalists, agents, novelists, memoirists, niche writers, publishers, writing teachers, assigning editors and media experts.#135 Query Letters, Persuasive Proposals, and Publishing Secrets Featuring Literary Agent Joëlle DelbourgoJoëlle Delbourgo is President of Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, a boutique literary agency founded in 1999. She represents a broad range of adult nonfiction and fiction. Her authors include NYT bestselling and award-winning novelist Ben H. Winters; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Debbie Cenziper and Dale Russakoff; award-winning educator Michele Borba, the late Dr. Susan Forward, memoirists Ariel Burger, Rachel Stolzman, Grace Jung and Sara Sherbill; historians Philip Freeman, Joanna Sliwa and Elizabeth White; true crime writer James Renner; and novelists Marilyn Simon Rothstein, Lindsey J. Palmer, Roy Hoffman and Rosa Kwon Easton, and Tommy Hays. A former senior executive at Ha...2025-04-1737 min
The Watchung Booksellers PodcastEpisode 39: Journalism for JusticeIn this week's episode of The Watchung Booksellers Podcast, journalists Candy J. Cooper and Dale Russakoff share their excitement in the triumphs of journalistic writing.Candy J. Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. She is the author, most recently, of Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and A Town that Looked Away, which was recently named a 2025 honoree by the American Library Association’s YALSA award for young adult nonfiction. She also wrote Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint Michigan Fought for Th...2025-03-2551 min
Severed | True Crime PodcastTrue Crime: Rev. Canon Paul WancuraWe discuss the mysterious, unsolved case on Shelter Island, New York, involving the deceased priest, Rev. Canon Paul Wancura. Drew finds a prior case involving sexual abuse and murder, incorporates the psychology of island living or island mentality, and explores the purported home invasion crime to Rev. Wancura’s death. For information/tips: If anyone has information, you can contact the Suffolk County Crime Stoppers or submit an anonymous tip–call 1-800-222-TIPS. Provide any tips on the P3 Tips APP via the App Store or Google Play or P3Tips.com. The infor...2024-06-101h 54![[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil](https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/01babd23-692d-4312-9e17-9bd87ae1bfcd/886dac0e-cbc3-42b9-9659-bf948d303013/3000x3000/dale-russakoff-headshot.jpg?aid=rss_feed)
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie WeilBestselling Author Dale Russakoff on Being a Southern Woman at Harvard, Ambition at 71, and How Family Matters MostToday, Debbie talks to Dale Russakoff, a veteran reporter for The Washington Post, a bestselling author, and a classmate from her Harvard/Radcliffe class of 1974. They talk about her surprising experience at Harvard as a woman from the South, her distinguished career as a journalist, and the importance of family. Debbie knew that Dale had been a reporter for The Washington Post for almost 30 years. And that she is the author of a best-selling book, THE PRIZE. But in this episode she told Debbie something she'd never heard before: what it was like to be a...2024-01-2638 min
The Learning CurveCharter Approval in CA, Online Learning in OK, Outsourcing Teachers?, SCOTUS School Choice Case, NYT on Success AcademyChoiceMedia‘s Bob Bowdon and Pioneer Institute‘s Cara Candal talk about charter school authorizing in California and a recent bill that gives school districts rather than the state the authority to approve charter schools; good news for online learning programs in Oklahoma; and is there a shortage of teachers in American schools? Plus, Bob calls out Dale Russakoff for a selective New York Times... Source2019-09-1338 min
Get Top Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Relationships & IntimacyThe Knowledge Gap: The hidden cause of America's broken education system--and how to fix it by Natalie WexlerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360932to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Knowledge Gap: The hidden cause of America's broken education system--and how to fix it
Author: Natalie Wexler
Narrator: Natalie Wexler
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: August 6, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 15
Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1
Genres: Relationships & Intimacy
Publisher's Summary:
“Essential reading for teachers, education administrators, and policymakers alike.” —STARRED Library Journal The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our countr...2019-08-069h 17
Wharton Business Radio Guest AudioAyodelle Gansallo and Dale Russakoff on Leadership in ActionAyodelle Gonsallo, author of Understanding Immigration Law and Practice, and Dale Russakoff, author of The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools, join host Mike Useem on Leadership in Action. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2018-11-1952 min
Policy Forum PodPodcast: Putting community engagement in the neighbourhood of good policyImagine you’re a philanthropist with a big pot of money and a pressing social problem you’d like to solve in your city. You gather all the best academic knowledge on the topic, employ an army of consultants to design a cutting-edge solution, and announce the initiative to great fanfare on live television. So far so good, right?Well, if your philanthropic policy-making forgot to talk to the people who might actually be affected, you could find it does a whole lot more harm than good.Such top-down approaches to policy are all too comm...2018-09-0740 min
LeftPOCEpisode 8 - "A Movement of the People" w/Victor Monterrosa - Left POCket Project PodcastEpisode 8 - “A Movement of the People” w/Victor Monterrosa – Left POCket Project Podcast
Victor & I discuss the history of socio-economic challenges and related activism in Newark, NJ, his run for city council, & what inspired him to serve his community
About Victor’s Campaign for Newark City Council:
Victor for Council: https://www.instagram.com/victorforcouncil/
Featured Profile for 100 People: “Newark”
http://www.100people.org/wp/newark_gallery/victor-monterrosa/
More about the Campaign Platform & Fellow Candidates with A Movement of the People
http://amovementofthepeople.com/
Related Reading & Resources:
Books:
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America by Kevin Mumfor...2018-02-0156 min
Left POCket Project PodcastEpisode 8 - "A Movement of the People" w/Victor Monterrosa - Left POCket Project PodcastEpisode 8 - “A Movement of the People” w/Victor Monterrosa – Left POCket Project Podcast Victor & I discuss the history of socio-economic challenges and related activism in Newark, NJ, his run for city council, & what inspired him to serve his communityAbout Victor’s Campaign for Newark City Council:Victor for Council: https://www.instagram.com/victorforcouncil/Featured Profile for 100 People: “Newark” http://www.100people.org/wp/newark_gallery/victor-monterrosa/More about the Campaign Platform & Fellow Candidates with A Movement of the Peoplehttp://amovementofthepeople.com/ Related Reading & Resources: 2018-02-0156 min
Free ThoughtsTeaching School Choice to the American Education SystemHow can parents have more say in how their children are educated? What’s the difference between different approaches to school choice, like vouchers, education savings accounts, and tax credits? Do we know these work?Jason Bedrick joins us this week to make the case for school choice.Show Notes and Further ReadingHere’s an earlier episode of Free Thoughts with Neal McCluskey on the history of public schooling in America.Bedrick mentions Dale Russakoff’s recent book, The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? (2016) and his review of the...2016-06-0352 min
Library TalksDale Russakoff: When Facebook Tried to Save NewarkJournalist Dale Russakoff's new book, “The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools,” investigates the state of public education in America’s underserved communities. In this conversation with NYPL’s Jessica Strand, Russakoff tells the story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million quest to transform the debilitated school system of Newark, New Jersey — and spark educational change across the country.2016-04-191h 01
Library TalksDale Russakoff: When Facebook Tried to Save NewarkJournalist Dale Russakoff's new book, “The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools,” investigates the state of public education in America’s underserved communities. In this conversation with NYPL’s Jessica Strand, Russakoff tells the story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million quest to transform the debilitated school system of Newark, New Jersey — and spark educational change across the country.2016-04-191h 01
NJ Spotlight Conference SeriesThe Prize: View From The ClassroomRecorded at NJ Spotlight On Cities, held October 16th, 2015 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Dale Russakoff, Author of “The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools?” moderates a discussion with three of the educators featured in her book: Dominique D. Lee, Joanna Belcher, Princess Fils Aime.2015-12-2200 min
Talk CocktailA great many children left behindThere is a school of thought in crisis management that says, if you have a completely intractable problem, sometimes the only solution is to create a larger problem. In fact, to blow things up to the point where you get to start over. Sometimes that’s a strategy that happens not just by design, but by outcome.
When then Newark Mayor Cory Booker, N.J. Governor Chris Christie and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg put together a plan that they thought would completely reform and transform Newark schools back in 2010, they thought they were doing the right thing. However what they did...2015-12-1128 min
That Stack Of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher - The House of PodcastsPolitical Books For a Political SeasonPolitical Books for a Political SeasonWe recorded this episode on November 3rd. All the off year electioneering had us thinking about the books that delved into political issues, both fiction and non-fiction. But let's face it, so many books are tinged with politics.
The Books we discussed this episode.Alan Drury, “Advise and Consent.”Robert Penn Warren, “All The King’s Men.”Dale Russakoff, “The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools?” – "Education isn’t separate from quality of life." - NancyGeoffrey Can...2015-11-1400 minThat Stack Of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher - The House of PodcastsPolitical Books For a Political Season<p>Political Books for a Political Season</p><p>We recorded this episode on November 3rd. All the off year electioneering had us thinking about the books that delved into political issues, both fiction and non-fiction. But let's face it, so many books are tinged with politics.</p>
<p> </p><p> </p><p>The Books we discussed this episode.</p><p>Alan Drury, “Advise and Consent.”</p><p>Robert Penn Warren, “All The King’s Men.”<...2015-11-1428 min
The BackgrounderEpisode 35: Dominique LeeDominique Lee began his education reform efforts in Newark, N.J. before Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook bestowed $100 million on the city’s public schools. Lee is the CEO and founder of the BRICK Academy of Newark, which is aimed at meeting the needs of children growing up in poverty. In a candid interview, Lee talks about how he came to Newark from his boyhood home state of Michigan, and how his teaching experience at Newark’s Malcolm X. Shabazz High School drove him to working toward education reform. Lee also discusses Dale Russakoff’s book, The Prize: Who’s In Charg...2015-10-1700 min
Good Life ProjectZuckerberg, Booker and One Journalist’s Quest For the Real StoryThe story of a lifetime only comes around once...
Dale Russakoff spent more than three decades as a top news journalist, reporting for The Washington Post for more than 28 years.
When Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a $100 million grant, teaming with then rock-start mayor, Cory Booker, to revolutionize the Newark schools and create a model for national education reform, she'd found a story worthy of her full attention and her first-ever book.
Leaving her job, she spent four and a half years embedded in the lives, conversations and inner-most workings of what seemed, at first, to be positioned as a...2015-09-221h 05
Good Life ProjectZuckerberg, Booker and One Journalist’s Quest For the Real StoryThe story of a lifetime only comes around once...Dale Russakoff spent more than three decades as a top news journalist, reporting for The Washington Post for more than 28 years.When Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a $100 million grant, teaming with then rock-start mayor, Cory Booker, to revolutionize the Newark schools and create a model for national education reform, she'd found a story worthy of her full attention and her first-ever book.Leaving her job, she spent four and a half years embedded in the lives, conversations and inner-most workings of what seemed...2015-09-221h 05
The Harvard EdCastThe Fallout of Education Reform in NewarkDale Russakoff, author of "The Prize," examines the troubled education reform story of Newark and reflects on what can be learned from its failure to provide system wide reform.
2015-09-2114 min
Enoch Pratt Free Library PodcastWriters LIVE: Dale Russakoff, The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?When Mark Zuckerberg announced his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every city in America -- it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved: Newark's key education players, fiercely protective of their billion-dollar-per-annum system. It's a prize that, for generations, has enriched seemingly everyone, except Newark's students.Journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts, as reformers face off...2015-09-181h 23
Grab Full Audiobook in Nonfiction, PoliticsThe Prize by Dale Russakoff | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The Prize
Author: Dale Russakoff
Narrator: Pete Cross
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-10-15
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Summary:
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's key...2015-09-108h 28
The Christie TrackerTwo Years After Bridgegate: The Truth Serum QuestionIt's hard to pinpoint exactly why Governor Christie’s presidential campaign hasn’t caught fire. But his decline in the polls started with a traffic jam back on September 9th, 2013.
Two years later, we consider what we still don't know about Bridgegate.
Host David Furst is joined by Andrea Bernstein, Senior Editor for Politics & Policy for WNYC News and Tom Moran, Editorial Page Editor for The Star-Ledger. Here's the scenario. The governor has been given a healthy dose of truth serum. And he's granted Andrea and Tom a no-holds-barred interview. Andrea says it all starts with h...2015-09-0917 minTransform Mundane Moments Into Extraordinary Experiences With Our Full AudiobookPrize Audiobook by Dale RussakoffListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 244647
Title: Prize
Author: Dale Russakoff
Narrator: Pete Cross
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:44:00
Language: English
Release date: 09-08-15
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development
Summary:
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's key...2015-09-088h 44
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Self-Improvement, Career DevelopmentThe Prize by Dale RussakoffPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/244647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prize Author: Dale Russakoff Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 8, 2015 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's key education players, fiercely protective of...2015-09-0803 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Self-Improvement, Career DevelopmentThe Prize by Dale RussakoffPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/244647to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Prize
Author: Dale Russakoff
Narrator: Pete Cross
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Release date: September 8, 2015
Genres: Career Development
Publisher's Summary:
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's key education players, fiercely protective of their...2015-09-088h 44