Mass Humanities announced that Callie Crossley, a groundbreaking journalist and television producer at GBH in Boston, is the recipient of the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities 2022.
Crossley is the host of “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley”, which airs on Sunday evenings from 6:00 to 7 p.m. on GBH, 89.7 FM. The show looks to alternative presses and community news for stories that are often overlooked by big media outlets. In each roundtable conversation, the show aims to examine the small stories before they become the big headlines with contributors in Boston and New England. Her weekly commentaries also air Mondays during GBH’s “Morning Edition.”
Crossley is also a public speaker and television and radio commentator for national and local programs, including CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” the PBS “NewsHour” and PRI’s “The Takeaway.” She also appears weekly on GBH-TV’s “Basic Black”, focusing on current events concerning communities of color, and Fox 25 Boston’s morning show.
“Throughout her journalistic career, Callie Crossley has used her voice to inspire, embrace change and impact the community for the better,” said Brian Boyles, executive director of Mass Humanities. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to honor her as one of four recipients of the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities 2022.”
A former producer for ABC News “20/20,” Crossley is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, guest-lecturing at colleges and universities about media literacy, media and politics and the intersection of race, gender and media. She also sits on several Boston-based boards including the Boston Museum, the Ford Hall Forum, Cambridge Reads, and the Boston Book Festival.
She has two Harvard Fellowships from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Crossley was a producer for Blackside Inc.’s “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years,” which earned her an Oscar nomination, a National Emmy, and the Alfred I. For Boston Public Radio, Crossley has earned the AP, Edward R. Murrow and Clarion awards in addition to the 2014 Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow, and Clarion awards for writing, producing and co-hosting the hour radio documentary, “Witness to History: WGBH’s 1963 Coverage of the March on Washington.
Mass Humanities, a non-profit foundation based in Northampton, creates opportunities for the people of Massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
