Carrie Kaufman
Producer/Host(EDITOR'S NOTE: Carrie Kaufman no longer works for KNPR News. She left in April 2018)
Carrie Kaufman is Host/Producer for KNPR’s State of Nevada. She has been a print, digital and radio journalist for 25 years. She founded and published PerformInk, Chicago’s theatre and film newspaper, which became the bible for actors, directors, designers, filmmakers, and funders, as well as audiences wanting to be in the know. At PerformInk, she was the recipient of two Peter Lisagor Awards for Excellence in Journalism – for a feature on Uta Hagen, and for her extensive coverage of the Screen Actors’ Guild Strike of 2000.
In 2007, Carrie was a top 10 finalist in the Public Radio Talent Quest, which sent her headlong into the medium of radio production. Previously she was one of the original hosts of Les-Bi-Gay Radio in Chicago.
She is also a musician, and has worked as a consultant for various non-profit arts groups.
Carrie grew up in Las Vegas, and returned in 2014 with her twin daughters to the city whose mountains she still dreamt about.
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Scores from the 2017 ACT tests for Nevada high school juniors show not much has changed in the area of college readiness. The Las Vegas Review-Journal…
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The Koch brothers are investing millions in Nevada to defeat Catherine Cortez Masto for U.S. Senate.John L. Smith says their ads linking her to Uber are… -
The Clark County Commission has a lot on its plate.The fuel tax index – which began county-wide in 2014 – is up as a ballot question in November.Something… -
John L. Smith wonders what the new Las Vegas ice hockey team should be named. He also wonders if the owners can pour ice that looks like a frozen cocktail… -
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court was deadlocked – 4 to 4 – on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s executive order allowing unauthorized… -
Last year, the Nevada Legislature passed a bill calling for the implementation of a plan to reorganize the Clark County School District.After much… -
The primaries are over and we’re turning to the general.Yes, it’s not till November, and the campaigns seem to be in quiet-before-the-storm mode. But… -
The day after the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, the Las Vegas LGBTQ community – and the politicians who ally with them – showed up en masse to… -
Hundreds of people crammed into the Gay and Lesbian Community Center last night to offer prayer and lay out plans of action in response to the rampage… -
Affordable housing has not reached a crisis point in Las Vegas as it has in Reno, but there are still big issues in finding quality affordable…
