Briana O'Higgins
Director, Audience DevelopmentA California native, Briana comes to KCUR by way of KMUW in Wichita, Kan. and KUSP in Santa Cruz, Calif.
She started working in public radio as an intern at WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to fulfill a degree requirement while studying at Antioch College.
She has a graduate certificate from the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and a Master of Arts in Journalism and Documentary Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Smith is the recipient of the coveted Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists. -
Nico Leone, KCUR’s general manager for more than seven years, will leave the station at the end of the year to take the helm of KERA in Dallas.Since… -
Editor's note: Traci Bauer resigned from KCUR on Aug. 15, 2020.KCUR 89.3 has hired Traci Bauer to lead its news operations as the director of journalism.… -
KCUR 89.3 won multiple first place awards and an honorable mention at the 2018 Missouri Broadcasters Association Awards over the weekend.In the large… -
In the 1990s, fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt was a student at Southwest Missouri State University when a folklore professor made a passing reference to a…
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KCUR Studios released today Midwesternish, a new podcast about the thinkers, doers and makers in the middle of the country.Jumping off from Kansas City,… -
An ice storm is expected to move across the Kansas City metro starting Friday, bringing sleet, freezing rain and likely hazardous road conditions.The… -
A storm moved across the Kansas City area late Wednesday and early Thursday bringing light to moderate snowfall.Due to the weather, many schools have… -
This week, KCUR disabled the comment capabilities on all web stories available on KCUR.org. The move follows in the footsteps of NPR., of which we are a… -
One person is dead and eight others were injured in two separate shooting incidents in the Kansas City metro this weekend.Around 3:20 a.m. Sunday, a…
