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  • Robert Garcia is the Executive Producer of NPR Newscast, the unit that provides the most listened-to content in public radio with 28.6 million listeners each week. Garcia oversees the production and broadcast of 37 live newscasts Mondays through Fridays, and 24 each day on Saturdays and Sundays.
  • Talia Schlanger hosts World Cafe, which is distributed by NPR and produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania. She got her start in broadcasting at the CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster. She hosted CBC Radio 2 Weekend Mornings on radio and was the on-camera host for two seasons of the television series CBC Music: Backstage,as well as several prime-time music TV specials for CBC, including the Quietest Concert Ever: On Fundy's Ocean Floor. Schlanger also guest hosted various flagship shows on CBC Radio One, including As It Happens, Day 6and Because News. Schlanger also won a Canadian Screen Award as a producer for CBC Music Presents: The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions, a cross-country rock 'n' roll road trip.
  • A school bus carrying sixth grade girls from Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Mo. overturned at a ramp at the intersection of Kansas 7 and Kaw Drive…
  • A first-hand account of what it's like to be hospitalized with COVID-19, and how a family handled the situation.
  • The Texas massacre at Robb Elementary was the 77th incident involving gunfire on school grounds this year, leaving many kids and adults around the country anxious and fearful
  • Farmers and ranchers in 13 Kansas counties are struggling to find resources to repair and rebuild their operations.
  • The Trump administration’s ban on refugee arrivals and federal funding for resettlement organizations is impacting Kansas City agencies, and their work to support the people who've already arrived.
  • The Bay Area's KTVU-TV broadcast obviously made-up and offensive names of what it said were the pilots on board Asiana Flight 214, which crashed on July 6. Now it has reportedly taken action against some of the staffers who were at the station that day.
  • Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Super Tighty Booty Whities; Sinking Marriages and Namaste For Your Face!
  • Building a community isn’t easy; people and ideas may be the brick and mortar, but what are the tools? Fortunately, KU has narrowed that down to a toolkit…
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