Jack Rice
For the second year in a row, Jack Rice has been named by TALKERS magazine as one of the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America.
The Jack Rice Show is a unique radio experience that takes you to where news is happening. However, unlike a news report that gives you a 30-second to two-minute sound bite, Jack has a slightly different approach. Jack takes you to places and introduces you to people affected by the news and explains how these news events impact you and why you should care about them. He covers news stories on a local, national and international basis and has interviewed people who make the news such as Jimmy Carter, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Walter Mondale, Karl Rove, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Dan Rather, Helen Thomas, Mike Wallace, Bob Dole, Elizabeth Dole, Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Ed Meese, Newt Gingrich, Arianna Huffington, Seymour Hersh, Tom Friedman and Tony Snow.
Jack has traveled extensively with his show, taking listeners, through the magic of radio, to places around the world, including Kosovo, Kuwait, Israel and Palestine and UN Headquarters. While in Iraq, Jack hung around with American soldiers and Iraqis to bring listeners human stories they couldn’t find elsewhere. He was recently at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to focus on detainees and the war on terror. While in Mississippi, he went down to Camp Shelby for the Minnesota National Guard’s largest deployment since World War II. In addition, he also went to the Gulf to visit with survivors of Hurricane Katrina who are still trying to cope a year later. Jack has broadcast shows from both the White House and from just off the Senate floor on Capitol Hill and has plans to take the show to many more venues in the future.
Jack is a former CIA Special Agent and Field Operations Officer as well as a former prosecuting attorney and trial lawyer. He is a frequent contributor to NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, WCCO-TV and other media outlets around the country. As if that weren’t enough, he writes regularly for newspapers and magazines.
Jack earned a bachelor’s degree in history from San Diego State University. He was graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School. He and his wife Marlo live in the Twin Cities with their four daughters.
For more information on Jack’s show, visit his website at http://thejackriceshow.blogspot.com.
