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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If an endangered species goes extinct, there’s no turning back. And its absence can set off a cascade of carnage, harming entire ecosystems from farming…
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New research out of West Virginia University says trees are now taking up more Carbon Dioxide than ever recorded. And because forests are the planet’s…
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It’s day 901 of the Mountain Valley gas pipeline protest. Tree sitters have been perched above its path and authorities are making plans to remove them.…
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In what’s quickly becoming a virtual world, students with no or slow internet are being left behind. So, school administrators in rural Wise County…
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Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park is growing. It comes courtesy of sizeable payout from one of the largest environmental damage settlements in…
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The peaceful transition of political power is a hallmark of democracy.New administrations have to ramp up quickly in an increasingly complex world.…
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The insurrection at the U.S. capital January 6th is something, some people say they saw coming, but what happened on that day, raises new questions about…
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With the new administration putting climate at the top of the agenda, advocates for coal communities in transition are asking for a seat at the table---…
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Performance artists Steven Licardi and Courtney Surmanek work in a field they call "creative aging." They wanted to do something to help keep people stay…
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A free mobile medical clinic in Southwestern Virginia, known as the “Health Wagon” is serving record numbers of patients this year, due to COVID -19. And…