Background
Wood, GEORGE was born on April 6, 1949 in Napa, California, United States.
Wood, GEORGE was born on April 6, 1949 in Napa, California, United States.
Colorado College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude. Arizona State University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1974). Phi Alpha Delta. Clallam County Court Commissioner.
He has degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Berkeley, and participated in the university"s Education Abroad Program to Lund University in Sweden, 1969-1970. George Wood began as a freelance reporter at in 1975. Following the retirement of Arne Skoog in 1978 he told over the writing and presenting of the program Sweden Calling DXers and its successor MediaScan, until the latter was taken off the air in 2001.
In 1994 MediaScan became the first radio program in Sweden and the second in Europe (the first in English) to have its audio posted on the Internet.
He was "s Webmaster since Swedish Radio"s first website launched in 1995, while also serving as a journalist for the Radio Swedish English Service. His was one of the voices in the satirical sketches in the program the Saturday Show.
He retired from in August, 2014. After retirement George Wood enrolled in courses at Uppsala University.
George Wood was News Director of the university radio station KCSB-FM (at the University of California, Santa Barbara) in 1971-1973, and has also worked at KPFA in Berkeley, California, Earth News Service in San Francisco, and briefly as a freelancer for National Public Radio.
Since the late 70"s he has been the Stockholm stringer for Columbia Broadcasting System Radio News.
Clallam County (President, 1984) and Washington State Bar Associations. Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. Personal Injury and Commercial Litigation.