Alan Sperber, MD, is the representative of the Sperber family on the Sperber Prize Jury, being the son of the donor of the prize, Liselotte Sperber, and the brother of the late Ann M. Sperber.

For the final episode of Season 1, Alan came on the podcast to talk about his sister, her work on Murrow: His Life and Times, and the lasting legacy of the Sperber Prize.

Kerri K. Greenidge is an author and historian specializing in African-American history, American political history, and African-American and African diasporic literature in the post-emancipation and early modern era.

Her book Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (Liveright 2019) is a biography of Boston Guardian editor and activist, William Monroe Trotter. Black Radical explores the history of racial thought and African American political radicalism in New England at the turn of the century.

Marvin Kalb, one of the original "Murrow Boys," was tasked with reopening CBS's Moscow Bureau during the outset of the Cold War. His book 'Assignment Russia' tells his personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news.

Kalb spent years traveling across the Russian countryside, learning the intricacies of Russian nationalist ideology and news.