Then, tune in to KUNR Friday afternoon for my next turn hosting High Desert Forum. At 2:00 that day, President Bush is speaking at the Reno Convention Center. Following his speech, at 4:00 p.m. PDT, KUNR’s High Desert Forum guests – Chris Wicker of the Washoe County Democrats and Bob Larkin of the county’s Republican party – will debate. We’ll begin the High Desert Forum with a report from me of Mr. Bush’s speech. (Both Bob Larkin and I will be high-tailin’ it to KUNR to make it in time. You might even hear us trying to catch our breath as we run into the studio.) On this Friday’s High Desert Forum, we’ll discuss national security, the economy, and Yucca Mountain. It promises to be a lively debate!
In the future, I’ll host KUNR’s Friday afternoon High Desert Forum on KUNR generally once a month. Watch your e-mail for program topics and dates.
You can access KUNR in the Reno-Sparks area on 88.7 FM. For other FM dial locations throughout northern Nevada and northeastern California, contact me. And you can tune in on the internet at www.KUNR.org.
Also, this weekend a follow-up spot (or two or three) should air on Weekend Edition (the NPR weekend morning news show) or Weekend All Things Considered (the NPR weekend evening news show). The story or stories will include sound bites from President Bush’s speech in Reno on Friday. I don’t know yet which days or times this will air, although chances are good it will broadcast Saturday, not Sunday.
In the future, I’ll host KUNR’s Friday afternoon High Desert Forum on KUNR generally once a month. Watch your e-mail for program topics and dates.
You can access KUNR in the Reno-Sparks area on 88.7 FM. For other FM dial locations throughout northern Nevada and northeastern California, contact me . And you can tune in through the internet at www.KUNR.org.
Friday morning at 7:50 a.m. PDT, my report on the Nevada Republican convention will air. It's an eight-minute feature.
Locally, you can tune in at 88.7 FM. (Our listening area extends as far east as Elko, Nev.; as far north as Susanville, Calif., and Winnemucca, Nev.; and as far south as Bishop, Calif. If you need to know the spot on the dial for any of those areas outside of Reno, please let me know: I'll get back to you on that.) If you live outside KUNR’s broadcast area, you can tune in through the internet at www.KUNR.org.
RENO, Nev. -- On Monday, KUNR’s newest reporter, Carol Cizauskas, reports on the Reno celebration of peace activist Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, birthday last Thursday. On Thursday, members of the Reno Anti-War Coalition and Citizen Alert presented thousands of paper cranes to Nevada’s congressional delegates. The origami birds represent a fervent wish for peace -- both through de-escalation of the war in Iraq and nuclear disarmament.
The story is scheduled to broadcast on Monday, the day the nation celebrates King’s birthday. It will air on KUNR 88.7 FM Reno during Morning Edition at 5:30 a.m. and again at 7:30 a.m. Listeners outside the KUNR broadcast area can listen to a live stream at www.KUNR.org.
Cizauskas will continue to report local stories for KUNR each week. Listeners can hear these stories on KUNR’s broadcast of Morning Edition at 5:30 and 7:30 a.m. various weekdays.
And so radio rookie Carol Cizauskas has graduated to news reporter and afternoon host at KUNR, Reno’s National Public Radio (NPR) station. Returning to her roots at the station, Cizauskas is hosting KUNR’s broadcast of the NPR afternoon news program, All Things Considered. The radio journalist will report local news at four minutes past each hour and traffic updates at the top and bottom of each hour. KUNR’s newest reporter, Cizauskas will produce features for broadcast on KUNR’s Morning Edition during the week and will interview newsmakers in the studio Wednesdays and Thursdays during All Things Considered.
"I’m excited to return to KUNR -- and it’s my first NPR station job! In the two and a half years since my news internship at KUNR, I worked two radio jobs I loved: reporter and announcer for Reno’s AM news-talk radio station and manager of Nevada’s only community radio station. Now it’s a thrill to produce and broadcast news stories for Reno’s NPR station," Cizauskas said. "And it’s great to get paid for it," she added.
Cizauskas can be heard Monday through Friday on KUNR 88.7 FM, Reno, 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. She broadcasts local news at four minutes past each hour and road reports at 29 and 59 minutes past each hour from 3:59 p.m. through 6:29 p.m. On Fridays from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., KUNR broadcasts a local talk program, High Desert Forum. Because of this, Cizauskas does not begin broadcasting Fridays until 5:04 p.m. Cizauskas can be heard several other times each hour on air. The station streams live on the internet at www.KUNR.org. The reporter credits her readiness to anchor a local afternoon news show and report for a national public radio station to the skills she honed at KOH, Reno’s 24-hour news radio station. "Did you know that KOH is one of the oldest radio stations ever?" Cizauskas asked. "It just celebrated its 75th birthday -- and you can just imagine how good a station must be to survive so long and so successfully. But more than that, KOH is a tight ship. What I learned there -- and how hard I was pushed to rise to the station’s high standards -- will stand me in good stead at any public or commercial station in my future. I’m incredibly grateful for all I learned at KOH -- and I miss working there!"
But as much as Cizauskas misses her KOH friends, she’s as thrilled to become part of Reno’s national public radio team. And that’s just how she describes her first full week of work at KUNR.
"It’s been exciting to jump right in at KUNR," Cizauskas said. "My new colleagues have been showing me the ropes, re-acquainting me with all the tools and procedures of broadcasting and producing at the station. It’s fun to re-join the team where I had my radio beginnings."
Now that Cizauskas has taken her first step from her radio rookie days at KOH, she looks forward to more growth through reporting and hosting for KUNR. And she hopes to turn the part-time job into full-time work soon at the station.
"I really want to report and host full-time," Cizauskas said. "Someday soon I hope I’ll take the next step of news director for a national public radio station. Each step is moving me up the road to my ultimate dream."
And what’s the ultimate dream for this radio journalist? She has set her sights high and far away -- all the way to the banks of the Jordan. Long her dream to live in Israel, it grew into a plan to cover one of the world’s news hot spots.
"The holy land..." Cizauskas sighed. "I’d love to live there. And can you imagine reporting on events there as NPR’s Middle East correspondent? I feel called to it. As my mother says, ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ So I’m walking my career road to Israel, step by planned step."
Cizauskas face brightened. She seemed to look inward to her faraway shore. "Someday...the holy land," she said.
Carol Cizauskas has graduated to news reporter and afternoon host at KUNR, Reno’s National Public Radio (NPR) station. Returning to her roots at the station, Cizauskas is hosting KUNR’s broadcast of the NPR afternoon news program, All Things Considered. The radio journalist will report local news at four minutes past each hour and traffic updates at the top and bottom of each hour. KUNR’s newest reporter, Cizauskas will produce features for broadcast on KUNR’s Morning Edition during the week and will interview newsmakers in the studio Wednesdays and Thursdays during All Things Considered.