WFUV News to Present ON THE BRINK: Stories Of Decision And Change June 24

In partnership with the Public Media Masters Program at Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the award-winning News Department of WFUV (90.7 FM/wfuv.org) has produced a new series of stories and interviews, On the Brink: Stories of Decision and Change. They have been collected into an hour-long special airing on Sunday, June 24 at 6:30 a.m. The stories are also available individually at wfuv.org.

"On the Brink is an hour of stories about people on the cusp of things. Great, terrifying, ambitious, and very human moments of change," says Jonathan Woodward, WFUV's fellow from Fordham's Public Media Masters Program, who was Managing Editor of the series. "A couple moving in together for the first time, a guy finishing an extensive mountaineering challenge, another guy getting held up at gunpoint. In each of these stories we explore how it feels when we find ourselves looking into the unknown future, and trying - sometimes desperately - to control the future."

In one of the stories actor Matthew Broderick describes the year that catapulted him to fame in the Off-Broadway hit, Torch Song Trilogy, the Neil Simon Broadway smash Brighton Beach Memoirs, and his Tony Award win: "Finally, I read for a play called Torch Song Trilogy... And the producer came out and said, we want to hire you, which is rare... My father got cancer and we found out he was basically dying between previews and opening of that play. So my year of, 'Now I've made it' is colored, to be honest with you, by my personal life."

On The Brink is a project of WFUV News, in partnership with the Public Media Masters Program at Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Individual producers for On The Brink are Liam Scoccola, Madeleine Bozzi, Angela Wells, Gianni Mogrovejo, Aislinn Keely, and Jose Ozoria. WFUV News Manager Kacie Candela is Supervising Editor, George Bodarky is the Executive Producer. Jonathan Woodward is Managing Editor.

About WFUV: WFUV (90.7 FM, wfuv.org), New York's source for music discovery, is a noncommercial, member-supported public media service of Fordham University for 70 years. WFUV has received national recognition for its award-winning weekday format of adult album alternative music, award-winning local news and sports, and a diverse weekend lineup. WFUV's robust website has extensive audio archives, videos, song playlists, an events calendar, blog and other resources.

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