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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On today’s show we’re changing things up a little bit. Joshua Johnson from 1A is in town so we thought we’d spend an hour getting to know him -- but not... -
Over the past year or so we’ve spent a lot of time talking about water on this show. From the dual harmful algal blooms that have impacted southwest... -
The United Way of Florida released its latest report on poverty in the Sunshine State last week in Tallahassee. During that press conference, the... -
The number of oil and natural gas wells in the U.S. that use what’s known as ‘fracking’ has increased more than ten-fold in the past two decades, and... -
While the opioid epidemic continues to grow across southwest Florida, in Lee County overdoses increased by more than 800 percent over the past four... -
The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, an Iowan schoolteacher conducted a lesson on discrimination she called the "Blue eyes–Brown... -
Florida Gulf Coast University is hosting its Research Roadshow , an event where students and faculty showcase collaborative research efforts. Teams will... -
Gov. Ron DeSantis recently announced his plan to appoint Ron Bergeron , the founder and CEO of Bergeron Family of Companies , to the South Florida Water... -
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he's appointing Chauncey Goss to the board of the South Florida Water Management District , where he'll represent... -
Frances E. Jensen, MD explores and analyzes mysterious territory in her book, “ The Teenage Brain : A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising...
