Ira Basen
Ira Basen is a Canadian radio producer, who has been associated with CBC Radio since 1984. He has been associated with the programs Sunday Morning, Quirks and Quarks, The Inside Track and This Morning, and has written for Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail.
Life
He graduated from Carleton University and holds an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He has taught at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario and has won many awards in the field of journalism.
Awards
Gabriel Award in 1987 for "Jackie Robinson,the legend and the legacy" a segment of The Inside Track
Canadian Science Writers’ Awards
The New York Radio Festival Awards
Works
Class Struggle - looks at the plight of part-time teachers in Canadian universities (for CBC Sunday Edition) Sep 4, 2014
World War One and the Birth of Public Relations, broadcast 24 Jun 2014 (audio download here)
"Can Crowdfunding Work for Narrative Non-Fiction?", PBS, February 10, 2010
"Citizen Uprising", Maisonneuve, September 21, 2009