She will lead and inform coverage of the Washington Legislature, governor’s office, state agencies, and other state entities — and will look beyond the capitol dome to focus on the people affected by ...

88.5 KNKX/Seattle-Tacoma, WA, has hired Northwest Jazz radio veteran Carol Handley as its new Director of Music Programming, starting August 20. Handley comes to KNKX with decades of music programming ...

88.5 KNKX was a big winner at the 2019 PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors, Inc.) Conference on June 15, garnering four national awards, all for the station’s locally-produced storytelling show, Sound ...

Employees at Washington public radio station KNKX are navigating the ups and downs of freedom from university ownership a year after their successful campaign to buy their independence. But after they ...

Three and a half years ago, loyal fans fought to save the radio station. Now, KNKX will open its new downtown Tacoma studio this weekend. KNKX has spent the past five and a half months transforming ...

As of Wednesday morning, after a 10-month struggle, public-radio station KPLU is independent and is broadcasting as KNKX (pronounced “connects”). The saga began in November, when KPLU discovered that ...

Pacific Lutheran University students were joined by KPLU (now KNKX) radio station listeners on Dec. 3, 2015 to show support for the school’s radio station after the school announced a sale to Seattle ...

Public radio station KNKX is bidding good-bye to Pacific Lutheran University. The station, formerly owned by PLU and known as KPLU, has found a new home in Tacoma, and will relocate from the PLU ...

After a rescue campaign that raised $7 million-plus from listeners, KPLU-FM radio will soon be wearing new call letters -- KNKX. The jazz-blues-news station will assume its new name once the group ...

TACOMA — The Tacoma-based public radio station KPLU will get a new call letters, after supporters raised enough money to buy the station from Pacific Lutheran University. The station will be called ...