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Erin Hennessey | News Director
Erin
Hennessey, KPLU’s News Director, has been overseeing the station’s news
team since 1996. From 1991-1996 she was KPLU’s All Things Considered
Host. Erin is a native of Spokane and a graduate of the University of
Washington and City University’s Center for Journalism Studies in
London. Erin worked in the film industry and as a print journalist in
London and New York before returning to Seattle to work in broadcast
news.
Erin’s memorable moment in public radio: “Interviewing jazz
icons from Seattle for a radio documentary about Jackson Street After
Hours, a book by Paul de Barros that examines the years surrounding
WWII when night clubs lined Seattle’s Jackson Street. A lot of the
musicians were in their last years of life when I interviewed them –
but, my, what stories they had to tell about the music, dancing, and
bootleg liquor!”
Contact info: ehennessey@kplu.org
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 | Adam Gehrke | Weekend Edition Sunday Host
Adam
Gehrke, KPLU’s Weekend Edition Sunday Host, has been sitting in the
comfortable control-room chair on Sundays since 2001. Adam grew up in
what’s now called Sammamish (formerly unincorporated King County) and
is a graduate of PLU’s arch rival, the mighty University of Puget
Sound. He has been in broadcasting since he was 17.
Adam’s
memorable moment in public radio: “Getting to play a part as myself and
a few other characters in Dick Stein’s Jimmy Jazzoid radio-detective
drama.”
Contact info: agehrke@kplu.org
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 | Gary Davis | Education Reporter/Weekend Saturday Edition Host
Gary Davis is part of KPLU’s education desk. He shares this coverage
with KPLU's Jennifer Wing. On Saturday mornings, he hosts Weekend
Edition. A SeaTac native and University of Washington graduate, Gary
has been a public radio journalist for almost 20 years in Seattle and
overseas in Germany and the U.K. He's reported on a variety of topics,
including the health care system and local politics.
Gary's
memorable moment in public radio: "For a story I was preparing about
gay youth, I interviewed a 14-year-old Seattle boy whose parents had
kicked him out of his home after he told them he was gay. He was about
to be placed in a foster home and he was really scared about his
situation. What's so memorable for me is, in that moment, realizing the
power of our medium. He wasn't willing to show his face (for TV), but
he was willing to share his story through sound - to speak out for
himself and for other kids he knew with similar stories."
Contact info: gdavis@kplu.org
 Click here for stories by Gary Davis
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 | Chana Joffe-Walt | Special Projects Reporter
Chana Joffe-Walt started out covering general assignment stories for
KPLU in 2005. Work for KPLU and the Northwest News Network (N3) has
taken her into Buddhist temples and out to private San Juan islands.
She loves any story where she gets to meet a new person, idea or place.
A native of Philadelphia, Chana is a graduate of Oberlin College.
Chana's
memorable moment in public radio: "Searching the streets of Las Vegas
for a recycling bin. I was working on a story about how the casinos
were “going green." I figured they're building the largest green
building in the world here, there has to be one recycling bin. I was
wrong.
Click here for stories by Chana Joffe-Walt
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 | Kirsten Kendrick | Morning Edition Host
Kirsten Kendrick has been KPLU’s Morning Edition Host since September
2006. She came to KPLU in February 2005 as a reporter. A native of Ohio
who grew up in Texas, Kirsten's nearly 20-year career in news radio has
taken her all around the country – from Dallas to Miami to Seattle.
Kirsten’s
memorable moment in public radio: “The day my first feature aired on
KPLU. I continue to be amazed and appreciative that there is an outlet
for radio stories that are more than one minute long!”
Contact info: kkendrick@kplu.org
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 | Dave Meyer | All Things Considered Host
Dave Meyer, KPLU's All Things Considered host, has been anchoring our
news shows since 1987. He started out on Weekend Edition, moved to
Morning Edition in 1988 and has been hosting All Things Considered
since 2005. A native of the Olympic Peninsula and a graduate of
Washington State University, Dave worked as a broadcast journalist in
Pullman, Boston, Longview and Everett before joining the KPLU news team.
Dave's
memorable moment in public radio: "Hosting Morning Edition during the
tragedy and chaos of September 11, 2001. It was the biggest challenge
of my career and I hope we never have to go through that again."
Contact info: dmeyer@kplu.org
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 | Liam Moriarty | Environment Reporter
Liam Moriarty, a New York native, has reported for KPLU for more than
10 years, starting as our freelance correspondent in the San Juan
Islands in 1996. He stepped in as full-time Environment Reporter in
June 2007. In between, Liam was News Director at Jefferson Public Radio
in Ashland, Oregon for three years and reported for a variety of radio,
print and web news sources in the Northwest. He's covered a wide range
of environment issues, from timber, salmon and orcas to oil spills,
land use and global warming. He’s also reported for KPLU from France
for the station’s Learning Curve series “The French Connection” –
comparing education styles and funding between France and the U.S. with
a special emphasis on Washington State.
Liam's
memorable moment in public radio: "It's probably a tie between getting
tear-gassed during Seattle’s WTO riots in 1999, and getting upclose and
personal with killer whales while reporting on whale research in the
San Juans."
Contact info: lmoriarty@kplu.org
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 | Bellamy Pailthorp | Business & Labor Reporter
Bellamy Pailthorp has been overseeing KPLU’s coverage of employers and
workers since 2001. She started at the station in 1999 as a general
assignment reporter. Bellamy has traveled extensively but finds herself
consistently drawn back to the Pacific Northwest. She grew up in
central Seattle. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a
Masters from Columbia University. She’s a Fulbright Scholar and a
Knight-Bagehot Fellow. From 1989-1998 she worked in Berlin where she
got her start in public radio as a stringer for NPR’s cultural news
desk.
Bellamy’s
memorable moment in public radio: “Seeing the INS open a shipping
container at the Port of Seattle that contained stowaways from China,
three of whom died en route of seasickness. Harrowing stuff, with
global economics and inequity at its root.”
Contact info: bpailthorp@kplu.org
Click here for stories by Bellamy Pailthorp
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 | Keith Seinfeld | Health & Science Reporter/Assistant News Director
Keith
Seinfeld has been KPLU’s Health & Science reporter since 2001.
He’ll cover just about any area of scientific research or health care,
from the laboratories to the patients, from public clinics to the
rivalries between hospitals. His series of stories on the use of
electricity to modify the brain won the 2008 Science Journalism Award
from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Prior to Health & Science, Keith covered the environment for KPLU
for five years. He also was a staff reporter at The Seattle Times and
The News Tribune in Tacoma and a freelance writer-producer. He’s a
native of Tacoma who loves to keep learning new things. He also loves
the craft of writing and storytelling. Keith is a graduate of Stanford
University and in 2007-08 attended Massachusetts Institute of
Technology on a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship.
Keith’s
memorable moment in public radio: “Watching brain surgery on a patient
with Parkinson’s Disease. There’s a lot of mystique about brain
surgery, but when the doctor pulled out a pretty hefty hand-held drill,
I realized: It may be a hi-tech procedure, in a room filled with
hi-tech gadgets, but you still have to open up the skull. The rest of
the operation was fascinating, especially when you could hear the
electrical pulses of individual neurons, amplified through a
loudspeaker.”
Click here for stories by Keith Seinfeld
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 | Jennifer Wing | Education Reporter
Jennifer Wing has been leading KPLU's Education coverage since 2001.
She now job shares the beat with reporter Gary Davis. Jennifer was
born and raised in Philadelphia, where she graduated from Temple
University. Before joining KPLU she worked in radio and television in
Bellingham, Delaware, Seattle and Philadelphia.
Jennifer's
memorable moment in Public Radio: "Covering a press conference on the
top floor of Seattle's old, un-retrofitted, City Hall Building when the
2001 earthquake hit!"
Contact info: jwing@kplu.org
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 | Paula Wissel | Law & Justice Reporter
Paula has covered the Law and Justice beat at KPLU for more than a
decade. She began her KPLU career in 1989 when she was hired to host
All Things Considered. Prior to moving to Seattle, she worked in public
television in Idaho. She also worked in public TV and radio in upstate
New York and San Francisco, where she graduated from Lone Mountain
College, now part of the University of San Francisco. She was born and
raised in Idaho.
Paula’s
memorable moment in public radio: "Sitting in a King County courtroom
when Green River killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to strangling 48
women. As the serial killer responded to each charge in an emotionless
tone, the families of the murder victims sat quietly crying. They'd
been waiting decades for the killer to be caught. It reinforced my
feeling that, with this or any tragedy, the people left behind live
with the pain long after I've packed up my microphone and gone home."
Contact info: pwissel@kplu.org
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Northwest News Network (N3) Reporters:
Tom Banse | Regional Correspondent
Tom Banse, KPLU’s and N3’s Regional Correspondent, roves the Northwest
to report on broad themes and telling details. His topics run the gamut
from business to the environment and human interest. Home base is in
Olympia, a legacy of a previously held state government beat from
1991-2003. Although he grew up in Seattle, Tom's radio career began by
chance in Minnesota at Carleton College’s student radio station. Tom's
memorable moment in public radio: "I am indebted to many people for
tips and tutelage, but certainly some of the bluntest -- at times
unprintable -- guidance came from NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg. I
interned at NPR in 1989 and was privileged to keep Nina's chair warm at
the U-S Supreme Court or at the high-octane Iran-Contra trial of Oliver
North, wherever she wasn't at the time. Heady stuff for a tenderfoot
reporter."
Contact info: tbanse@u.washington.edu
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Austin Jenkins | Political Correspondent
Austin Jenkins, KPLU’s and N3’s Olympia Reporter, has been covering the
Washington State Legislature and regional public policy issues since
2004. Prior to becoming a public radio reporter, Austin worked as a
television reporter in Seattle, Portland and Boise – to name just a few
of his stops. Austin grew up in Seattle and is a graduate of
Connecticut College. Austin’s memorable moment in public radio: “There
are too many to pick just one: Covering Washington’s contested 2004
gubernatorial election, flying in an Army Reserve Chinook helicopter to
the top of Mt. Rainier, spending 24-hours on a tug boat on the Snake
River, the list goes on.”
Contact info: ajenkins@kuow.org
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Anna King | Richland Correspondent
Anna King, KPLU’s and N3’s Richland-based reporter, has been covering
the Mid-Columbia since the spring of 2007. Before that she was a print
reporter for the Tri-City Herald where she covered the environment,
Native Americans, agriculture and Northwest wine. A Washington native,
she's also a regular contributor to the magazine Wine Press Northwest
and was a contributing author to the guide book Best Places to Kiss in
the Northwest. Anna's memorable moment in public radio: "Being dusted
from head-to-toe by a potato digger during harvest. Every square inch
of me was covered in fine sand. Public radio is a dirty job!"
Contact info: aking@wsu.edu
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Doug Nadvornick | North Idaho Correspondent Doug Nadvornick
KPLU's and N3's Coeur d'Alene-based reporter, has been covering North
Idaho and Eastern Washington for us since July, 2008. Before that, he
worked in commercial radio, weekly newspapers, and served as Spokane
Public Radio's news director for about 17 years. He lives in Spokane
and is a graduate of Washington State University. Doug's memorable
moment in public radio: "Going into the mountains with a hydrologist
who was collecting snow samples. That made for one of the best 'sound'
stories I've ever produced."
Contact info: dnadvornick@kpbx.org
Click here for stories by Doug Nadvornick
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