Lise Bang-Jensen
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Lise Bang-Jensen is a senior policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute
Manhattan Institute
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a conservative, market-oriented think tank established in New York City in 1978 by Antony Fisher and William J...

's Empire Center for New York State Policy and was formerly a reporter, producer and co-host of the New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

-based public affairs television program Inside Albany
Inside Albany
Inside Albany was a weekly half-hour public affairs television program that aired on public television stations in New York State.Unlike its sister newsweekly TV program New York Week in Review, Inside Albany aired every week and did not go on hiatus in the summer or during the Christmas season...

.

She blogs at NY Public Policy Watch http://www.nypublicpayrollwatch.com/.

Lise Bang-Jensen joined Inside Albany
Inside Albany
Inside Albany was a weekly half-hour public affairs television program that aired on public television stations in New York State.Unlike its sister newsweekly TV program New York Week in Review, Inside Albany aired every week and did not go on hiatus in the summer or during the Christmas season...

in 1987. David Hepp
David Hepp
David Hepp is an American journalist and reporter. He and Lise Bang-Jensen created the Albany, New York-based Inside Albany news television program, which ran for several decades until it ceased production on December 31, 2006.Hepp received the Alfred I...

, Bang-Jensen and others formed an independent production company after public television stations, citing financial reasons, cancelled it originally in July 1995. At that time, Inside Albany
Inside Albany
Inside Albany was a weekly half-hour public affairs television program that aired on public television stations in New York State.Unlike its sister newsweekly TV program New York Week in Review, Inside Albany aired every week and did not go on hiatus in the summer or during the Christmas season...

had been one of the longest running TV programs in the nation. Enough money was raised to renew the program. Inside Albany resumed broadcasting in 1996.

Lise Bang-Jensen started her career as a newspaper reporter. Her articles appeared in such newspapers as the Boston Globe, Empire State Report, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Ithaca Journal. She also contributed to New York Public Radio.

She has won numerous journalism awards, including from the NYS Broadcasters Association, United Press International and NYS Publishers Association.

On December 12, 2006, it was announced that Inside Albany
Inside Albany
Inside Albany was a weekly half-hour public affairs television program that aired on public television stations in New York State.Unlike its sister newsweekly TV program New York Week in Review, Inside Albany aired every week and did not go on hiatus in the summer or during the Christmas season...

was ending its run on December 31, 2006.

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