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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Gambler Billy Walters was sentenced to five years in jail last month for an insider trading scam that involved Dean Foods.He will go to jail for five…
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Las Vegas and Clark County have exploded in the last few decades. The growth has been sometimes painful and sometimes exhilarating.And for much of our… -
O.J. Simpson has been in prison – at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Facility, northeast of Reno - for more than eight years.Now there’s the possibility… -
Summer is traditionally a time for vacations and slow news days, but lately Las Vegas has been an even hotter news town than usual with one of the… -
Faraday Future is NOT coming to North Las Vegas.Regular listeners are no doubt thinking, “Didn’t this already happen?” The rumors have abounded since… -
Nevada welcomed legal recreational marijuana over the weekend with long lines and hoopla.Approved by Nevada voters in November, recreational marijuana… -
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke came to Nevada yesterday.He held a roundtable and press conference in Pahrump to announce the release of federal… -
This week, Lake Tahoe provides an idyllic backdrop for a meeting of the Republican Attorneys General Association this association seems to exist to… -
The last bill Governor Brian Sandoval vetoed on Friday broke environmentalists’ hearts.It was Assembly Bill 206, which would have mandated that Nevada… -
Muslims worldwide have been marking the month of Ramadan, which ends this Saturday.During Ramadan, observant Muslims are expected to fast from sunrise to…
