 | I am the public radio Regional Correspondent. I cover business, environment, public policy, human interest and national news across the wide Pacific Northwest. My job is to transport you through the radio to well known and out-of-the-way places in Cascadia where important, amusing, touching, or outrageous events are unfolding. My stories can be heard during Morning Edition, Weekday, and All Things Considered on KUOW and on the other National Public Radio stations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Before taking my current beat, I covered state government and the Washington Legislature for 12 years. During the early 1990’s, I worked in the Seattle bureau of United Press International. I got my start in radio at WCAL-FM, a public station in southern Minnesota. Reared in Seattle, I graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with a degree in American Studies. In 1996, I spent two months reporting from Bonn and Berlin, Germany on an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship. In 1999, the foreign correspondence went the other direction - around the Pacific Rim (Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan) - on a Jefferson Fellowship.
When not sifting through press releases, listening to lobbyists, or driving lonely highways, I enjoy exploring the Olympic Peninsula backcountry and cooking dinner with my wife and friends. My secret ambition is to take six months off work and travel to a faraway place where there are no radios. |