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John Wihbey
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John Wihbey produces segments and blogs for On Point, with a focus on politics, the environment, and foreign policy.

He worked as a reporter for The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, where he covered environmental and land use issues and dug up off-beat features. He has also written for USA Today, The Huffington Post, Boston Magazine online, and the Yale Climate Media Forum.

Raised in Maine, he graduated from Bowdoin College and earned degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.

John can be contacted via email at jwihbey at wbur.org or by phone at 617-358-0061.

Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
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A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
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The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

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On Point Blog
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

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Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.
It’s a topic for our news roundtable today. What [...]

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