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RANGE Media is a worker-owned newsroom that covers local stories in Spokane and across the Inland Northwest.
Tune in on Thursdays for round-ups on recent local news, team-wide banter and deeper dives on important stories with the journalists who broke them.
All of that — and more! — Thursdays from 3 to 4 pm on KYRS Thin Air.
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On this week’s episode, RANGE reporters Erin Sellers and Daniel Walters were joined by Lauren Pangborn to talk about all things urbanism, bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects, and how different infrastructure projects have been approached over the years. […]
On this week’s episode, RANGE reporter Aaron Hedge interviewed Daniel Walters about his most recent story, the process and reasoning behind it, and the work that went into it. Daniel’s story consists of follow up interviews with three formerly unhoused men, continuing his previous conversations with them from 2023. Stabbed. Frostbitten. Overdosed. Sheltered. […] […]
On this week’s episode, Aaron Hedge pre-recorded an interview with Tracy Simmons, the editor and Executive Director of FāVS News. The two of them talked about the history of FāVS and how it came to be, Tracy’s work and involvement with FāVS, the religious beat in journalism, and why religion reporting is important right now, […] […]
In just a few weeks, we’re going to confer with CHUM News to — to swap stories from our respective sides of the state and share underreported local news that will inevitably impact everyone across Washington. In anticipation of this Midstate Meet-up, we had CHUM on the pod to chat about what they’re building. We […] […]
On this week’s episode, RANGE reporter Aaron Hedge interviewed John Hancock, a clean water activist from the West Plains. John has made efforts to educate and bring clean water to his neighbors whose water wells are contaminated by PFAS. The two of them talked about the PFAS crisis in the West Plains and how it […] […]
On this week’s episode, Erin Sellers and Aaron Hedge went on the air to dive deeper into the Spokane 3 trial, the jury verdict, and the implications of the trial on free speech and protesting. They also talked about the jury trial for a Salvadoran man accused of assaulting an ICE officer during an arrest […] […]
On this week’s episode, Aaron Hedge and Pascal went on the air to talk more about the Spokane 3 trial, provide an overview of updates from the courtroom from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week, and what’s been going on behind the scenes at RANGE since the June 11th protest. […]
We have two segments for this week’s episode! During the first segment, RANGE reporters Daniel Walters and Val Osier discussed the former Mayor Nadine Woodward’s tort claim against the City of Spokane and the context around it. (Long story short: Woodward is threatening a $10 million lawsuit in response to a 2023 resolution from […] […]
On this week’s episode, Aaron Hedge and Pascal spoke with two Gonzaga students – Sandra Rivera and Abby Zappone – about journalism in Spokane and the collaboration, research, and work that goes into it. Sandra and Abby are part of the six-person staff that created Spoke, a magazine that showcases Spokane’s journalistic world through essays […] […]
On this week’s episode, Pascal and Val were joined by Frances and Fen from Asians of Collective Liberation in Spokane (ACL Spokane)! May is Asian American Heritage Month, and ACL is doing a month-long celebration full of events, workshops, and art. Frances and Fen talked about ACL’s Heritage Month events, the importance of organizing and […] […]