Samantha McIntosh
Talk Show ProducerSamantha McIntosh is a talk show producer at Iowa Public Radio. Prior to IPR, Samantha worked as a reporter for radio stations in southeast and west central Iowa under M&H Broadcasting, and before that she was a weekend music host for GO 96.3 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Samantha earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Mass Communications – Broadcasting and Communication Studies from St. Cloud State University. She’s an Iowa native who loves collecting vinyl and pop culture knowledge, going on bike rides, and skunking opponents in cribbage.
You can reach her at smcintosh@iowapublicradio.org
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In 1869, Iowa was directly in the path of a total solar eclipse. -
Iowa has had the third largest total of violent tornadoes since 1950, behind Oklahoma and Texas.
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There’s a mix of red and blue politics across the Midwest. Statehouse journalists share updates on new and proposed legislation in neighboring states.
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Erika Schwartz was born in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary in 1944, one day before Nazis sealed it off. Against all odds she and her mother survived the Holocaust, eventually moving to the United States. -
Over two hundred immigrants who each have their unique journey to settling in all 50 United States are featured in the book Finding American.
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Two eaglets hatched right on time this past week at a nest monitored by the Raptor Resource Project near Decorah.
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Rural Americans have higher rates of depression, and farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to the National Rural Health Association.
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Death cafés have spread across the globe over the last decade, including in Iowa. UNI professor Melinda Heinz hosts them in the Cedar Valley area, connecting generations through conversations about death in a nonjudgmental or partisan environment. -
A Haitian-born University of Iowa professor is working to raise awareness about the Caribbean nation of about 11.9 million people on the brink of famine.
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Every spring, nearly one million Sandhill Cranes pass through an 80-mile stretch of the Platte River in Nebraska on their northward migration.
