Podcasting with John Metaxas
John Metaxas is a lawyer and journalist, formerly with CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and ABC News. He is the founder of WallStreetNorth Communications -- wallstreetnorth.com. Its signature service is Podcasting for Lawyers.
Episodes
January 1, 2024 • 30 mins
Center Makes Fundraising Push in Face of CUNY Budget Cuts
In this second episode of the Podcast of the Center for Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies at Queens College CUNY, I speak with the College’s President, Frank Wu, who has emerged as an important ally for the Center as it deals with a cut-off of funding from CUNY. Earlier in 2023 all independent centers at CUNY had to certify that they were capable of self funding. This has pr...
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March 6, 2023 • 22 mins
As Greece works to recover from the devastating financial crisis of the last decade, one of its most vital tasks is to bring talented individuals back into the country to work and create opportunity for others. In this podcast I speak with Dr. George Nounesis, the director and chairman of Demokritos, Greece’s National Centre for Scientific Research.
Nounesis, who is an award winning scientist, says he is on a mission to create opp...
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December 19, 2022 • 25 mins
This inaugural episode of the Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Podcast from Queens College (CUNY) features Professor Gerasimus Katsan, director of the College's Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and its assistant director, Professor Maria Athanasopoulou. They speak in both English and Greek with John Metaxas about the Modern Greek language, what it takes to learn it, how students are different today, and how teaching M...
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October 23, 2022 • 18 mins
I am pleased to present, here, one of the highlights of my years at WCBS -- the 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award winning best regional newscast recognized by The Radio Television Digital News Association. I was privileged to co-anchor this newscast, which was a true team effort.
Looking back on this broadcast from March 3, 2020, it’s clear that we’ve come a long way since then.
That day we reported on New York’s second confirmed case ...
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October 7, 2022 • 3 mins
Nearly six in ten Americans say the U.S. Supreme Court is out of touch with the country, according to the latest poll by Monmouth University. That opinion has crystallized in the months since the Court took away a woman's constitutional right to an abortion in its June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. On the Friday that Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the newest justice and as the Court was preparing ...
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November 29, 2021 • 7 mins
Three days before Eric Adams was elected Mayor of New York, I had the opportunity to interview him live on WCBS during my news broadcast. In a few minutes here, he outlines his vision for the city in the coming years.
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September 30, 2020 • 1 min
WCBS asked me to cover first the Presidential Debate from the station's studios, where we maintain a severely limited in-person staff and a strict COVID protocol.
I was tasked with reporting, writing and producing four 90-second reports for morning drive time. Each covers a different substantive slice of the debate and aired in a four-part rotation every half hour throughout the morning, in combination with CBS Network coverage an...
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September 30, 2020 • 1 min
WCBS asked me to cover first the Presidential Debate from the station's studios, where we maintain a severely limited in-person staff and a strict COVID protocol.
I was tasked with reporting, writing and producing four 90-second reports for morning drive time. Each covers a different substantive slice of the debate and aired in a four-part rotation every half hour throughout the morning, in combination with CBS Network coverage an...
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September 30, 2020 • 1 min
WCBS asked me to cover first the Presidential Debate from the station's studios, where we maintain a severely limited in-person staff and a strict COVID protocol.
I was tasked with reporting, writing and producing four 90-second reports for morning drive time. Each covers a different substantive slice of the debate and aired in a four-part rotation every half hour throughout the morning, in combination with CBS Network coverage an...
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September 30, 2020 • 1 min
WCBS asked me to cover first the Presidential Debate from the station's studios, where we maintain a severely limited in-person staff and a strict COVID protocol.
I was tasked with reporting, writing and producing four 90-second reports for morning drive time. Each covers a different substantive slice of the debate and aired in a four-part rotation every half hour throughout the morning, in combination with CBS Network coverage an...
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July 13, 2020 • 13 mins
My talk with U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, June 18, 2020, regarding Greece's successful response to the COVID pandemic.
Ambassador says response was guided by scientific advice. Such U.S. companies as Microsoft, Google and Cisco aided with technology. Silver lining of effort was the progress Greece made in digital governance.
The interview is an excerpt from the NHSTalks presentation by the National Hellenic Society:...
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June 12, 2020 • 44 mins
As the Michael Flynn legal drama comes to its denouement, the media narrative has focused on his guilty plea to lying about conversations with the Russian ambassador and the Justice Department’s late decision to seek to drop charges against Flynn. But Flynn’s other foreign entanglement, with Turkey, may be even more significant to U.S. security, foreign policy and democracy. In a wide ranging interview, John Metaxas speaks with Dr....
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May 1, 2020 • 90 mins
Meet the Candidates for NYS Assembly 93rd District: Moderated by John Metaxas -- Wednesday April 29, 2020. Listen here or watch the video at: https://www.wallstreetnorth.com/2020/05/meet-the-candidates-moderated-by-john-metaxas/
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My interview with Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal on WCBS, Sunday March 8, 2020.
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January 20, 2020 • 9 mins
▪ Harvard Law Prof Waffles on Scope of His Role
▪ Asserts ‘I’m not a full-fledged member’ of impeachment defense team
▪ Claims Sekulow is not conflicted by Parnas Allegations
▪ Dershowitz arguably should be considered an expert witness in this case and Dems should get a rebuttal witness.
▪ Sekulow should be called to testify on Parnas representation.
When is a lawyer an advocate and when is he or she a witness? And if a lawyer...
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November 27, 2019 • 6 mins
American Hellenic Institute PODCAST #2: AHI board member James Marketos, Esq., recounts a genocide taunt by Turkish soccer fans this year and speaks on the importance of remembering the Smyrna Catastrophe of 1922 and the need to hold Turkey to account for the destruction of the Christian population of the city. Marketos’s remarks, which served as an introduction to a talk by Georgetown Professor Ismini Lamb in Washington, D.C. on O...
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November 18, 2019 • 30 mins
November 15, 2019: Columbia Law Prof. John Coffee interviews SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson about the latest issues of corporate law that the Commission is considering. Commissioner Jackson recently dissented in a partisan 3-2 vote regarding proposed proxy solicitation rules that he says will make it easier for CEOs to spend shareholder money. The Commissioner makes a compelling case for the SEC's role in protecting investors. Amo...
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September 30, 2019 • 6 mins
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tells John Metaxas that Greece’s Brain Drain Can be Reversed. The prime minister answered the question during a public conversation he had at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, moderated by former Ambassador Nicholas Burns, on September 26, 2019.
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September 30, 2019 • 9 mins
Economist Dr. Carl Weinberg of High Frequency Economics says “Money has died.” He talks about the effects of negative interest rates in Europe. This is an excerpt from his talk at an economics briefing held by the Summit, N.J. law firm Brown Moskowitz & Kallen for their clients on September 23, 2019.
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August 16, 2019 • 26 mins
Retired U.S. Ambassador Dr. Susan Elliott tells us that back channel diplomacy is currently going on in ways unimagined by most citizens, through her organization, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. She became the organization’s President and CEO in August 2018. Officially known as Track II Diplomacy, these closed-door and off-the-record conferences provide opportunities for senior U.S. and foreign officials, sub...
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