Who is Marc Steiner?
The Marc Steiner Show
From 1993-2008, Marc Steiner was the host of the award winning public affairs talk show The Marc Steiner Show. The show first aired on WJHU in 1993. In 2001, when Johns Hopkins University decided to sell WJHU, Marc Steiner led the charge to keep the station locally owned and operated. He succeeded in 2002, when WYPR was born. He was Vice President at WYPR until 2005.
A Passionate Community Activist
Before he became a talk show host, Marc was already a passionate community activist. During the tumultuous 60’s, Marc founded The Liberation News Service, The Washington Free Press, and The South Baltimore Voice. In the 70’s and 80’s, he served as a counselor for juvenile offenders in state prisons and worked with at-risk children and families, street gangs, and vocational high schools. After a brief career as a marketing consultant and political campaign organizer, he moved into producing radio commercials and industrial films for a large advertising agency. Marc’s love of the arts led him to found a theater program in the Maryland state prison system and the Family Circle Theater, a company of teenagers that produced original productions about adolescent issues. He spent ten years on the faculty of Baltimore School for the Arts.
Center for Emerging Media
In 2000, Marc Steiner formed the Center for Emerging Media. CEM is dedicated to introducing and giving airtime to voices that would otherwise go unheard, particularly the voices of the disenfranchised and dispossessed. In 2005, CEM went to Vietnam and produced a six part documentary series called Shared Weight. This series explored the stories and lives of Vietnam veterans, peace activists, artists, and Vietnamese people, and examined how the conflict had changed their lives. In 2006, CEM produced a 54 part documentary feature series called Just Words. It was a look into the lives of marginalized groups in Baltimore and throughout Maryland, such as ex-drug dealers, gang members, ex-cons, the homeless, and low wage workers.
Marc Steiner remains dedicated to advocating for social justice and spreading light, not heat.
What You're Saying...
“I am a mother of two young, school age children, and hearing you on air while driving the kids to and from school has been somewhat ritualistic for me. I have supported the station with my pledge, tuned in daily for may years, and even have an 88.1 sticker on my van. I am going to make use of it and not take it off, but will draw a circle with a line through it using a red Sharpie.” –Katie
“The company should remove the ‘Y’ from the station's call letters and replace it with an ‘O’ for ‘owners.’ And while they're at it, the ‘P’ for ‘public’ should now stand for ‘private’.” –Peggy