Blue Ridge Public Radio hires Myers to cover climate change and energy

Katie Myers

Blue Ridge Public Radio has hired Katie Myers to cover climate change, energy, and more in Western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge mountain region.

Myers is based in Tennessee and was a climate solutions reporting fellow at Grist from 2023 to 2024, where she focused largely on people, culture, and economies in transitioning fossil fuel communities.

She has written extensively on the Appalachian region, with bylines in Belt Magazine, Scalawag, Strikewave, Inside Appalachia, and 100 Days in Appalachia. She also previously worked for West Virginia Public Broadcasting; WMMT 88.7 FM, an eastern Kentucky community radio station; and Ohio Valley ReSource.

She has received fellowships from the Heinrich Boell Foundation, the Society for Environmental Journalists, the Solutions Journalism Network, and America Amplified.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.