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 State University System of Florida Board of Governors has selected the University of Florida to lead a statewide consortium studying health outcomes...
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Florida Gulf Coast University is taking the lead among Florida’s public universities when it comes to the broader world of medical cannabis. I t’s...
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Valerie’s House , which offers support services focused on children who have experienced loss, operates three homes in southwest Florida. They recently...
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Lee County Commissioners will be holding a public mining adoption hearing this Wednesday, June 19 at 9:30 a.m. in the commission chambers in downtown...
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High volume releases of nutrient-rich, and blue-green algae laden water from Lake Okeechobee last summer led to massive algae blooms along the...
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On June 19th, 1865, Union Army Major General Gordon Granger issued an order that read: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a...
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The Florida Legislature passed a bill during the 2019 session that will create an industrial hemp industry in the state . It is still awaiting Governor...
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We’ve been hearing more and more stories lately about the various places plastics are showing up in our environment. Stories of dead dolphins washing...
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The persistent and growing problem of plastics in our environment is becoming increasingly clear. We're revisiting a conversation we had with a local...
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The natural southward flow of water into the Everglades has been blocked by Tamiami Trail – that’s U.S. 41 – since the late 1920s. Congress recognized...