WKSU Covers the National Political Conventions

SCHULTZE AND URYCKI FOLLOW OHIO DELEGATIONS TO

NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTIONS

Beginning on Aug. 27, WKSU News Director M.L. Schultze reports from Tampa, Fla., as she travels with Ohio delegates to the Republican National Convention, where Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are to be named the party’s official nominees. Schultze will go beyond presidential politics as she covers all of the convention action from an Ohio perspective, focusing on issues like jobs, energy, healthcare and more with statewide voters in mind.

The following week, from Sept. 3 through 7, Senior Reporter Mark Urycki packs his bags for Charlotte, N.C., to bring Northeast Ohio stories from the floor of the Democratic National Convention. As Barack Obama and Joe Biden board the campaign train for a second time, Urycki examines the Ohio response to matters affecting voters back home.

Reports from the RNC and DNC will air during WKSU broadcasts of NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” as well as at midday in “Here & Now.” Schultze and Urycki will also post blogs and images online, along with archived audio and other election-centered stories, at www.WKSU.org/election2012.

WKSU’s coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions is made possible through support from Kent State University and State & Federal Communications.

WKSU broadcasts NPR & Classical Music at 89.7 FM, and is a service of Kent State University. WKSU programming is also heard on WKRW 89.3 FM in Wooster, WKRJ 91.5 FM in Dover/New Philadelphia, WKSV 89.1 FM in Thompson, WNRK 90.7 in Norwalk and W239AZ 95.7 FM in Ashland. The station broadcasts four HD Radio channels – adding WKSU-2 Folk Alley, WKSU-3 The Classical Channel and WKSU-4 The News Channel to the analog broadcast schedule. The WKSU website is www.wksu.org.