Ian Masters (journalist)

Ian Masters is an Australian-born American broadcast journalist, commentator, author, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker.[1][2]

Ian Masters
Born
Australia
OccupationJournalist, radio show host

Masters is host of the KPFK, Pacifica Radio program Background Briefing which deals with American politics, foreign policy as well as domestic American security issues. Masters has hosted a once weekly episode of Background Briefing since 1980; in 2009, the program was expanded to five days per week. It is broadcast on more than forty radio stations across the US, and is also available as a podcast.

Masters was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Affairs based at UCLA, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Relations at UCLA. He also served as a consultant to the Center for National Security Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

He hosted the 2005 PEN Center USA Awards from Los Angeles, California, which has in the past honored those such as Gore Vidal, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charlie Kaufman, and Robert Alter. On September 18, 2007, Masters moderated a discussion billed as "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" with John J. Mearscheimer and Stephen M. Walt. The event was part of the Hammer Forum held at UCLA's Hammer Museum. On September 25, 2007, Masters moderated a panel discussion on "Foreign Policy after the Bush Administration". The event was also held at UCLA's Hammer Museum. Panelists included John Brady Kiesling, John B. Judis, Christopher O'Sullivan and Steven Clemons.

Personal life

Masters is married to British actress Christina Pickles.[3]

gollark: I only have something like 60GB of vaguely important data, and 5GB I couldn't replace easily.
gollark: Currently looking at sending over a cheap RPi and external hard drive to a technical friend so I can replicate stuff offsite to them.
gollark: I don't have anywhere near enough backing up of stuff yet, unfortunately, really ought to work on that.
gollark: I probably get away with doing a lot of stuff weirdly because I have a lot of free time and very little actual demand on my server stuff, since the only user is me. Though I do have a lot of important data and random services.
gollark: I just use entirely open-source software on my servers (except gameservers and probably some drivers), and don't have to deal with that sort of problem.

References
  1. Carroll, Rory (10 September 2015). "'This is the end': leftwing Pacifica Radio affiliates enter protracted death spiral". The Guardian.
  2. Mitchell, Sean (May 13, 2007). "A quarter-century of levelheaded talk". Los Angeles Times.
  3. Closer Staff (August 29, 2015). "'Friends' Star Christina Pickles Invites Closer Into Her Cozy LA Home". Closer.


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