Christopher Lydon, visiting fellow, is the host of Open Source, the local/global, broadcast/Internet radio conversation which has been based at Brown University's Watson Institute since the summer of 2007. His areas of interest include media and international affairs. In harness with a 24-hour Web site engaging a global community in a broad exchange on politics and culture, Open Source has been recognized as the first radio talk show with Internet sensibilities as to speed, links, openness, democracy and world-wide reach.
For more than 30 years, Lydon has been a distinctive voice in print, television and radio journalism. He covered presidential campaigns for The New York Times, anchored "The Ten O'Clock News" on WGBH-TV in Boston and founded "The Connection" on national public radio. He was a pioneer audioblogger at "Christopher Lydon Interviews" and on BOPnews, which he founded to cover "The Blogging of the President, 2004."
Lydon received a BA in history from Yale University.