Robbie Harris
WVTF/RADIO IQ New River Valley Bureau ChiefRobbie Harris is based in Blacksburg, covering the New River Valley and southwestern Virginia.
The former news director of WBEZ/ Chicago Public Radio and WHYY in Philadelphia, she led award-winning news teams and creative projects. Early in her career, she was the Humanities Reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio, and also served as a tape editor on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
Robbie worked at New Jersey Public Television and WCAU/CBS TV in Philadelphia while she pursued her Master's Degree at the University of Pennsylvania. During college, she was a Page at Saturday Night Live in New York and a reporter and program host for Cross Country Cable Television in Somerville, NJ. Robbie also worked at the Rutgers College Radio Station, WRSU and was part of the team which founded "Knight Time Television" at the university.
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Old time Appalachian fiddle music and artisanal sourdough may not sound like an obvious combination.But why don’t we let that ferment, while you check out… -
Coal was once king of the economy in Appalachia, but with climate change and the advent of the pandemic, it’s a new day. And that has leaders in the…
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The world is full of strange and indistinguishable sounds coming at us from all directions. But being able to tell where a noise is coming from, can mean… -
A decades old government plan to clean up abandoned Coal mines has never lived up to that promise. But a new proposal may have a shot at tackling that… -
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recommending water crossings along the Mountain Valley Pipeline route not receive permitting to continue.The… -
For more than a hundred years, coal from Appalachia helped power the nation and the world. But that’s changing as new forms of clean energy emerge. A new… -
Time was about to run out for Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality to gauge the impact of the Mountain Valley Pipeline on sensitive wetlands in…
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Human beings have long speculated, hoped, or feared that UFO's would one day show themselves. A new report confirms for the first time that what we now… -
Since the endangered species act became law in 1973, 99% of all at-risk species are still with us, thanks to that conservation effort. Now one more plant,… -
A new study finds that high quality early childhood education leads to actual changes in the brain, but those changes don’t actually show up until middle…
