Robert "Rob" Redding Jr. is an award-winning syndicated talk radio show host and best selling author, known to his listeners as "America's Independent Voice." Rob is also founding editor and publisher of the award-winning nonpartisan black news Web site, ReddingNewsReview.com and two other nonpartisan news Web sites. He also publishes WashingtonContinent.com, a daily general market news publication covering Washington, D.C.

          Headlines from his three-time "Black Web Award"-winning ReddingNewsReview.com are used on his syndicated “Redding News Review” talk show, which is heard in all 50 states on Sirius XM Satellite Radio Channel 128 “The Power” and on numerous great radio stations. ReddingNewsReview.com has been called a "clearinghouse for African American news" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

          Talkers magazine noted his uniquely Independent views on government by listing him as one of the "100 Most Important Radio Talk Hosts In America." He has also won other top honors, including an ADDY and an Associated Press award for Internet news.

            What's more, Redding has been called one of the most "respected names in the media," by urban magazine Upscale and "one of the most intellectual and intriguing radio talk show hosts since Tavis Smiley," by urban industry authority Radio Facts. Rolling Out magazine says:  "Rob Redding brings a unique brand of political analysis and socially uplifting message to Atlanta airwaves and other cities."

 Other notable highlights of his broadcasting dedication include: Spending his first years in broadcasting as a top-rated hip-hop radio personality in Macon, Ga. – a city that is famous for another family member, Otis Redding. As a radio personality, he was first to record multi-platinum selling rapper Bubba Sparxxx - on Redding’s album "Tony Smoove's Aircheck Volume 1." Sometime after leaving music radio for talk, he became one of the few, if not only, black program directors of a mainstream talk radio station, KMLB-AM in Monroe, La. from August 2009 to August 2010. Around that same time, he became the narrator of the film "Stay Brady Stay", which has been screened at numerous movie festivals and is scheduled to air on Louisiana Public Broadcasting for three years. Redding is the founder of BlackTalkers.com, a Web site covering the black talk radio community. He has also been a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel, National Public Radio and C-SPAN. He has been quoted in some of the world's top newspapers – from France's Libération, the San Francisco Chronicle, Politico to the Baltimore Sun newspapers.

He does not just do radio, the occasional TV appearance and appear in other people articles, he has written plenty of his own. He spent nearly three years as a political reporter at the Washington Times and other publications. (He previously worked at the Macon Telegraph, the Prince George’s Journal, the Prince George’s Gazette and the Prince George’s Sentinel.) He left The Times to diversify his politically independent résumé to become the communications director at Democrat D.C. Councilman Michael A. Brown’s Mayoral Campaign.

          Furthering his independent brand, he has authored the critically acclaimed e-book, "Hired Hatred: Why politicians and the political prejudices they tout are mutually exclusive from good government." His independent manifesto, written to complement his founding of IndependentThinkers.org, is said to "invoke an activist spirit," according to a review in 2005 by New York's Black Star News. His current e-book, Where's the Change?: Why Neither Obama, nor the GOP Can Solve America's Problems,  has been ranked number 30 on the Amazon.com "Top 100" for best sellers.

His more academic writings include, being the creator of the "Resolution of Risk," which was first used at the International Public Debate Association's National Tournament, after being published in the organization's peer-reviewed publication, "The Journal of the International Public Debate Association."  The paper was presented by Redding before a packed audience. 

He has lectured at Temple University, the University of Maryland in College Park, Connecticut College, Morris Brown College in Georgia and Howard Community College in Maryland. He has also served as a panelist for the National Association for Black Journalist, a keynote speaker for the National Council of Negro Women Metropolitan Atlanta Section and the Atlanta Urban Media Makers.