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Robert Krulwich (Robert Louis Krulwich) was born on 5 August, 1947 in United States, is an American radio and television journalist (born 1947). Discover Robert Krulwich's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

Popular As Robert Louis Krulwich
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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 5 August 1947
Birthday 5 August
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Nationality United States

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1947

Robert Louis Krulwich (born August 5, 1947) is an American radio and television journalist who currently serves as a science correspondent for NPR and was a co-host of the program Radiolab.

He has worked as a full-time employee of ABC, CBS, National Public Radio, and Pacifica.

He has done assignment pieces for ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight, as well as PBS's Frontline, NOVA, and NOW with Bill Moyers.

TV Guide called him "the most inventive network reporter in television", and New York Magazine wrote that he's "the man who simplifies without being simple."

1969

Krulwich received his bachelor's degree in U.S. history from Oberlin College in 1969 and his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1974.

Just two months later, he abandoned his pursuit of a law career to cover the Watergate hearings for Pacifica Radio.

1976

In 1976, he became Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone.

1978

From 1978 to 1985, he was the business and economics correspondent for NPR.

Among other creative efforts, he recorded an opera called "Rato Interesso" to explain interest rates.

He went on to host the PBS arts series Edge.

1984

In 1984, he joined CBS and appeared regularly on CBS This Morning, 48 Hours, and Nightwatch with Charlie Rose.

During the Gulf War, he co-anchored the CBS program America Tonight.

1989

He was included in Esquire 's "Registry of Outstanding Men and Women" in 1989.

1990

Annually through the 1990s, he hosted a semi-fictional year-in-review program called Backfire for NPR.

1992

In 1992, Krulwich appeared as a guest on the first episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Critic Tom Shales panned Krulwich's appearance, describing him as "the Big Bird of economics."

Krulwich regularly moderates discussions on scientific topics at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

His presentations at the YMHA have featured such prominent scientists as Brian Greene and James D. Watson.

He is a regular correspondent on the PBS investigative series Frontline.

In his Frontline role, he has won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for his coverage of campaign finance in the 1992 U.S. Presidential campaign; a national Emmy Award for his investigation of privacy on the Internet, High Stakes in Cyberspace; and a George Polk Award for an hour on the savings and loan scandal.

His ABC special on Barbie also won an Emmy.

1994

In 1994, he joined ABC.

1995

In 1995, at the invitation of President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton, Krulwich recorded a live show at the White House with the rest of the “Backfire” team.

1999

In 1999, he hosted an eight-part prime-time series for ABC Nightline called Brave New World (which frequently featured his friends, They Might Be Giants, as musical guests).

2000

He has received a multitude of other awards for his reporting, including the Extraordinary Communicator Award from the National Cancer Institute in 2000, four consecutive Gainsbrugh Awards from the Economics Broadcasting Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Excellence in Television Award in 2001 for a NOVA special on the human genome.

2001

He also won the 2001 AAAS Science Journalism Award for his NOVA special, Cracking the Code of Life.

TV Guide named Krulwich to its "all-star reporting team."

2004

In 2004, Krulwich became the host and managing editor of the innovative PBS science program NOVA scienceNOW.

The show often tackled science stories considered too complex for television, sometimes using cartoons and musical production numbers to illustrate abstract concepts.

Krulwich substitutes for the hosts of NPR's magazine shows, and from mid-2004 to January 2020 he co-hosted the Radiolab program with Jad Abumrad.

Krulwich has a prominent role in the 2021 feature documentary film Objects as a proponent of recognizing the importance of seemingly useless keepsakes for their history and personal meaning.

2005

In 2005, Krulwich re-established a relationship with NPR, where he made regular contributions to several programs on science topics, while continuing to produce occasional segments for ABC News.

2006

By early 2006, with several projects going at once, Krulwich decided to end his work on NOVA scienceNOW after only five episodes.

2007

They have two children: Jesse (who graduated from Earlham College in 2007), and Nora Ann (Bowdoin College, Class of 2011).

The couple was featured in Act 2 of Episode 226 ("Reruns") of the Chicago Public Radio program This American Life, recounting their separate (and divergent) accounts of an event in their lives.

2010

In 2010, WNYC received a Peabody Award for Radiolab.

Krulwich lives in New York City and Shelter Island, New York, with his wife, Tamar Lewin, a national reporter for The New York Times.

2012

Krulwich was criticized over a September 24, 2012, Radiolab segment on yellow rain and the Hmong people in which he interviewed Kao Kalia Yang and her uncle, Eng Yang, an official documenter of the Hmong experience for the Thai government.

2019

On December 5, 2019, Krulwich announced via the Radiolab email newsletter that he would be retiring from Radiolab, though specifying it would not be immediate.

2020

His last episode aired on January 30, 2020.