A Closer Look: 40 Years of Public Radio in Anchorage

February 27th, 1:54pm February 27th, 1:54pm

Lori Townsend, Alaska Public MediaLori Townsend is the News Director for Alaska Public Media. She has worked in print and broadcast journalism for nearly 30 years. Radio brought her to Alaska, where she worked as a broadcast trainer for Native fellowship students at Koahnic Broadcasting before accepting a reporting/host position with APRN in 2003. APRN merged with Alaska Public Media a year later. Through her freelance work, she has produced news and feature stories nationally and internationally for Independent Native News, National Native News, NPR , Pacifica, Monitor Radio, Radio Netherlands and AIROS. Townsend is the recipient of numerous awards for her work from the Alaska Press Club, the Native American Journalists Association and a gold and a silver reel award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. 

A Closer Look

This program is all about KSKA’s long serving Program Director Bede Trantina, reflecting on the station’s early days and Bede’s amazing 39 year service to the station and the Anchorage community. We sat down with Bede and Alex Hills, the founding general manager of KSKA who hired Bede, to find out more about how the station got started and how Bede began her tenure here.

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REPORTER: Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage

BROADCAST: Friday, Feb. 23, 2018