Weekday mornings will NOT be the same, now that Errol Louis is moving to NY1 to host "Inside City Hall." Dang you, Voice folks...why'd ya have ta tell everyone about how wonderful he is?
Much great luck, Errol!
Comments (0) Best Newspaper Columnist/Radio Show Host - 2010
Errol Louis
The pairing of newspaper columnists with radio goes back as far as Walter Winchell. When done well, it's a lively combination, merging points of view with the rat-a-tat-tat of breaking news. Right now, the best local practitioner of this double play is Errol Louis, the Daily News columnist who hosts a 6 a.m.–9 a.m. weekday talk show on WWRL 1600 AM, the station that long catered to black audiences but now bills itself as the "outpost of progressive talk." Louis is pure New York: He was born in Harlem, and his father was a cop. He went to Harvard and Yale, came back to the city, and ran a credit union in Bedford-Stuyvesant, followed by a losing race for City Council in 1997, probably the best thing that could have happened to him. He then started writing, first for The New York Sun, later for the News in 2004. Louis's radio show has been the stop of choice for Governor David Paterson as he's struggled to explain himself over the past year. His News columns are tough and pointed and pull no punches, whether he's shining a light on housing authority high-rises where the elevators don't work or forcing the police to keep se arching for the culprit in an unsolved murder.
