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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Summertime is here, and for many families that means time at the pool, or at the beach – but it also means an increased risk for drowning. About 1,000...
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About 13 years ago Tamaqua Borough in Pennsylvania passed an ordinance prohibiting corporations from dumping waste sludge into open-pit mines by...
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Increases in potentially deadly heat, driven by climate change, will affect every state in the contiguous U.S. in the decades ahead. That’s the main...
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It’s probably fair to say the Brazilian peppertrees are one of the most disliked invasive species here in Florida. They’ve filled more than 700-thousand...
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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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We're revisiting a conversation we had with Dr. Terry Root , she is a senior fellow emerita at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford...
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We meet Dr. Frances E. Jensen, MD to explore her book, “ The Teenage Brain : A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults ....
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New research just getting underway at Florida Gulf Coast University is exploring a novel approach to possibly someday controlling blue-green algae, or...
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The documentary Toxic Puzzle tells the story of an ethnobotanist named Paul Cox who has spent years trying to track down links between toxins produced...
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New research just getting underway at Florida Gulf Coast University is exploring a novel approach to possibly someday controlling blue-green algae, or...