Staff
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Jay Andersen Jay was born in a log cabin near Springfield Mo. In 18--- wrong bio. Jay Andersen joined WTIP as a news reporter in June of 2008. He has a long background in news gathering, having previously been editor at two community newspapers. Between editing jobs Andersen worked as a non-profit administrator in the arts and in business public relations. He and his wife Tamera have lived in...Read more |
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Carah Thomas Carah joined the WTIP news team as a reporter in the fall of 2009. Carah has a background in photojournalism which includes a student internship with the Miami Herald, freelance work for the Associated Press, and two years as a staff photographer at a large daily newspaper. Carah has also worked as a reporter and photographer at a small weekly newspaper, covering local politics and...Read more |
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Jana Berka Jana started at WTIP in November of 2007 as the Development Assistant. Since then she’s morphed into the Office Administrator (as Deb likes to say…), and continues to amaze some of her co-workers with her knowledge of Excel spreadsheets, and her ability to create last-minute Goal-o-meters! If she can find the time to train, she dreams of someday hosting Thirsty Boots...Read more |
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Melanie Steele Melanie became WTIP's development director in March of 2007 when she moved to Grand Marais from a small island off the West Coast. When she finds the time between writing grants, working with underwriters and coordinating membership drives, Melanie can be found hiking the trails with her daughter, gardening, and writing by the lake. Read more |
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Deb Benedict Deb Benedict has been WTIP’s executive director since 2001. Under her leadership, the station has grown to over 800 members and now numbers over 70 on-air volunteers and eight staff. All this growth lead Deb to pursue the purchase of a new home for the station, nearly tripling the size of its previous space. Since settling in the new building in 2008, the station has taken complete...Read more |
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Roger Linehan Roger joined WTIP in the fall of 2007 as the program director. He’s a Marshalltown, Iowa native and a 1972 graduate of the University of Iowa. Prior to coming on board at the station, he worked as a newspaper editor in Iowa and Minnesota, spent time in England, obtained a masters degree in psychology, and worked for 20 years in the mental health field. Roger and his wife Maxene live off...Read more |
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Cathy Quinn Cathy Quinn has been working and volunteering at WTIP since the station went on the air in 1998. She started off hosting the AM Community Calendar and has worn many hats at the station since then. Currently she's the music director and host of the station's weekday eclectic music show Sidetracks. When she's not on staff in the summer she can be found paddling around the BWCAW as a...Read more |
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Barbara Jean Johnson Barbara Jean joined WTIP as the news and public affairs director in November of 2006. Her passion for radio took hold at a young age, when she made her first radio documentary as a high school class project using a tape recorder with bad sound! After that she was hooked, and went on to study community radio journalism at the University of Minnesota, where she got her bachelors degree. When she...Read more |
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Jeff Nemitz Jeff Nemitz is WTIP’s engineer extraordinaire. Jeff’s skills and abilities keep WTIP’s signal on the air. When not trouble shooting technical problems, Jeff can be found sailing around Devil Track Lake. Read more |
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Kelly Schoenfelder Kelly joined WTIP in April of 2010 as an intern, and then eventually graduated to the position of production assistant after she finished her B.A. in journalism at the University of Minnesota. When she’s not working at the station, she can be found cramming non-fiction, philosophizing, kickin’it with her family, or eating copious amounts of junk food. Read more |
