Mike Kiniry
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.
He became the first producer of Gulf Coast Live when the show launched in 2004, and also worked as the host of All Things Considered from 2004 to 2006, and the host of Morning Edition from 2006 to 2011. He then left public radio to work as PR Director for the Alliance for the Arts for five years, and was then Principled Communicator at the election integrity company Free & Fair for a year before returning to WGCU in October, 2017.
In the past Mike has been a bartender and cook at Liquid Café in downtown Fort Myers, a golf club fixer/seller at the Broken Niblick Golf Shop in Fort Myers, and a bookseller at Ives Book Shop in Fort Myers. He lives near downtown Fort Myers with his daughter, and their dog and two cats.
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The South Florida Water Management District's new Governing Board has awarded a $524 million contract to build the Caloosahatchee (C-43) West Basin... -
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Arthur C. Brooks has spent the last two decades immersed in public policy analysis as the President of the American Enterprise Institute , and as an... -
Today is Spread the Word Day -- the word being inclusion . It’s a rebranding of sorts of a decade-old campaign called Spread the Word to End the Word --... -
We’re learning about Project SEARCH which helps students with intellectual and developmental disabilities transition from school to work. The one-year...
