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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Back in the fall, we did a couple of stories on the new Education Savings Account program. Enacted in the 2015 legislative session, the program funnels… -
So, as of last week’s deadline, we now know who’s running for local offices in Nevada, including the state legislature. Now the question is, what will the… -
Almost two years ago, Barbara Atkinson arrived in Las Vegas charged with getting UNLV’s first medical school off the ground. It’s been an eventful two… -
There will be no minimum wage measure on the ballot this coming November. That decision comes from a consotium of groups, led by the Progressive… -
Democrats lost both the state Senate and Assembly in 2014, by the narrowest of margins. Now, according to Democratic leaders, they're poised to take it… -
Syphilis is on the rise – both in Las Vegas and nationwide.Clark County has had a 128 percent rise in reported syphilis cases since 2012 and 89 percent of…
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On the day after Thanksgiving, Robert Lewis Dear is accused of walking into the lobby of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, and began to… -
The weather is warming up - some times - and there is a lot to do this March beyond the green-soaked celebration on the 17th. Here are some ideas from… -
Dialogue is a hard thing to come by in American politics these days. We’re so used to hearing people give bombastic monologues and soliloquies and… -
Tesla is building batteries for electric cars in the northern part of the state. Faraday Future is planning to build electric cars in the southern part of…
