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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While self-driving cars used to be a thing of science fiction, they are rapidly becoming a reality. Different manufacturers in different countries are... -
Modern communication methods can sometimes falter in the wake of a major landfalling hurricane. What most people might not realize is emergency managers... -
The 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially began on Saturday, June 1st. And, according to a new study Floridians are more worried about hurricanes... -
While nesting numbers of endangered green sea turtles in Florida can vary from year to year, the broader trend over the past few decades shows a marked... -
Once it’s completed, the massive Caloosahatchee River West Basin Storage, or C-43 reservoir, near Alva will hold about 55 billion gallons of water... -
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder marked by systems such as tremors, stiffness and slow muscle movement. According to parkinsons.org , 60... -
A researcher at Mote Marine Laboratory is growing a “sea-green delicacy” called sea purslane in a novel aquaponic system that's also raising red fish.... -
We're listening back to a conversation we had last month to mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month . According to the National Sexual Violence Resource... -
Florida Gulf Coast University is offering a free STEM Summer Camp for High School Girls . Participating 9-12th grade girls will learn about water... -
Governor Ron DeSantis is directing Florida’s Secretary of State, Laurel Lee, to initiate a review of elections systems security throughout the state ....
