Press Room
WMFE to air ‘Black Churches in Orlando’ in connection with PBS’ ‘The Black Church’
• WMFE 90.7 and 89.5 is airing Black Churches of Orlando in connection with The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, the PBS documentary series by Dr. Henry Louis Gates. The program airs on February 26 at 3 pm and February 28 at 1 pm and is funded by a grant from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.
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DRAINED: New podcast looks at massive plan to save the Everglades, 20 years & $17 billion later
• In DRAINED, a new four-part podcast out Dec. 8 from WMFE and the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, Amy Green wades into the controversy around one of the most ambitious environmental restoration efforts ever undertaken.
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WMFE President Elected to NPR Board of Directors
• Erika Pulley-Hayes, president and CEO of WMFE/WMFV in Orlando, has been elected to the NPR Board of Directors.
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This National Radio Day, ‘local radio more important than ever,’ WMFE host says
• “In the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, economic turbulence, civil unrest, a historic election, and so much more, local radio is more important than ever,” WMFE’s Nicole Darden Creston says in Thursday’s Orlando Sentinel.
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WMFE’s reporting on TSA in Orlando, Pulse shooting named best in the country
• Community-based WMFE’s investigative series on the TSA in Orlando continues to be recognized. Public Media Journalists Association has named it best in the country along with a WMFE investigation into the Pulse shooting. Society of Professional Journalists members also honored the TSA and Pulse reporting along with an Apollo digital media project.
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WMFE adds arts & culture, in-depth programs to weekend lineup
• It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, BBC’s The Arts Hour, The Splendid Table, Planet Money and How I Built This debut this Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26, filling the four hours that were opened by the sunset of Live From Here.
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WMFE Hosts Celebration of Central Florida Musicians with “NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest: Orlando Favorites”
• WMFE is shining a spotlight on Central Florida favorites from NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest.
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