Katherine Perkins
News/Talk Program DirectorKatherine Perkins has done various jobs at IPR member stations since 1999. She is now Program Director for News/Talk and Executive Producer for Talk Shows. As part of her job she is responsible for managing the sound of the news and information stream on IPR and long-term planning and oversight for Talk of Iowa and River to River. She oversees the broadcast schedule for the news and information stations that are part of IPR. She also continues to produce talk shows, but mostly tries to stay out of the way of the hosts and producers, so they can continue to do great work.
Before she assumed Executive Producer duties, Katherine was a talk show producer, researching topics, developing content and booking guests for Talk of Iowa and River to River, a role she has performed since 2007. Before that, she was a host and reporter. Katherine’s reporting and producing have won statewide and national recognition. She’s spent her entire career (more than 20 years) in public media, starting as a student reporter and weekend anchor for WSIU in Carbondale, IL.
Katherine has a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from University of Illinois – Springfield, formerly Sangamon State University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in radio-television from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale.
Contact Katherine at kperkins@iowapublicradio.org.
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In this October meeting of the Talk of Iowa Book Club, we're discussing "An American Marriage," by Tayari Jones. -
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From climbing trees in her yard to scaling the canopy in the rainforest, a biologist explains the impact the interwoven tendrils of the tree canopy has on our environment.
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In this 2018 conversation, Charity Nebbe learns about the value of summer camp by speaking with leaders and counselors from Camp Wapsie in eastern Iowa.
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Eighty years ago, a small dedicated group of Quakers opened a hostel to provide shelter and a pathway to a new life for refugees who fled Nazi violence…
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Author Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street," is considered a modern classic of Chicano literature. In this author interview, Cisneros talks about how going back into her past and writing about her own experiences helped her find her voice.
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Host Charity Nebbe talks with Extension horticulturists about adding flowering shrubs to the landscape to eliminate the mid-summer lull.
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Host Charity Nebbe talks with Extension horticulturists about adding flowering shrubs to the landscape to eliminate the mid-summer lull.
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Host Ben Kieffer talks about the status of Iowa's housing market, listens back to a conversation about bicycling excursions of the 1800's and speaks with a tobacco prevention specialist about vaping.
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Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe talks with author Benjamin Percy about his latest book, "The Ninth Metal."
