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Andrew Becker joined KUER in 2018 as the host and producer of an upcoming investigative podcast before becoming news director. He spent more than a decade covering border, homeland and national security issues, most recently for The Center for Investigative Reporting + Reveal in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has focused on waste, fraud and abuse, with stories ranging from corruption and the expanded use of drones along the U.S.-Mexico border to police militarization and the intersection of politics and policy related to immigration, terrorism and drug trafficking. His reporting has appeared in news outlets such as the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and PBS/FRONTLINE, been cited in U.S. Supreme Court and District Court briefs and highlighted by John Oliver on “Last Week Tonight.” His work has been recognized by the Online News Association, Society of Professional Journalists and been nominated for a National Emmy, among others. He has taught at the University of Utah, and won fellowships from John Jay College in New York City and the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He also sits on an advisory board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism, based at Arizona State University. He received a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.

Doug Fabrizio has been reporting for KUER News since 1987, and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, he became host and executive producer of KUER's RadioWest, a one hour conversation/call-in show on KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City. He has gained a reputation for his thoughtful style. He has interviewed everyone from Isabel Allende to the Dalai Lama, and from Madeleine Albright to Desmond Tutu. His interview skills landed him a spot as a guest host of the national NPR program, "Talk of the Nation." He has won numerous awards for his reporting and for his work with RadioWest and KUED's Utah NOW from such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association, the Public Radio News Directors Association and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Andrea Smardon is new at KUER, but she has worked in public broadcasting for more than a decade. Most recently, she worked as a reporter and news announcer for WGBH radio. While in Boston, she produced stories for Morning Edition, Marketplace Money, and The World. Her print work was published in The Boston Globe and Boston.com. Prior to that, she worked at Seattleââ

Josh Weathers grew up in Gilbert, Arizona where he enjoyed playing volleyball and guitar. After making a short video of a motorized couch with friends, a love for filmmaking was set in motion. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Media Arts (Film). When not making films, he enjoys hiking in the mountains with his wife and corgi, Sunny Weathers.

Lee Hale began listening to KUER while he was teaching English at a Middle School in West Jordan (his one hour commute made for plenty of listening time). Inspired by what he heard he applied for the Kroc Fellowship at NPR headquarters in DC and to his surprise, he got it. Since then he has reported on topics ranging from TSA PreCheck to micro-apartments in overcrowded cities to the various ways zoo animals stay cool in the summer heat. But, his primary focus has always been education and he returns to Utah to cover the same schools he was teaching in not long ago. Lee is a graduate of Brigham Young University and is also fascinated with the way religion intersects with the culture and communities of the Beehive State. He hopes to tell stories that accurately reflect the beliefs that Utahns hold dear.

Joel became KUER’s program director in 2018, following a westward journey from Chicago that involved a 14-year-old Chevy and a 17-year-old cat. (The car broke down. The cat survived.) He has spent most of his career producing talk shows and podcasts. His most recent project is American Fiasco, the 12-part WNYC Studios podcast about the meltdown of the U.S. men's soccer team at the 1998 World Cup. (If you love soccer, you will love it. If you hate soccer, you will absolutely adore it.) Joel has also worked in content roles for Slate Podcasts and WBEZ Chicago, where he executive-produced Making Oprah and helped launch Making Obama and The Trouble. He first joined WNYC in 2007 as a producer on the eclectic music program Soundcheck. Joel was born and raised in Minneapolis, where public radio is second nature and the Twins are never in first place.

A lifelong lover of the arts, Cristy Meiners got into journalism because she hoped she’d be able to read books, go to concerts and watch movies for work; surprisingly, she’s pulled off just that for much of her career. After completing her B.A. in English at the University of Utah and her M.A. in Humanities at Brigham Young University, she moved to Washington D.C. to intern with NPR’s Arts Desk, and then stayed for another two years to work in various capacities around the building. In 2007, she moved over to SiriusXM Satellite Radio to produce for The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend, writing and producing interviews with many of her cultural heroes, including Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Julie Andrews, Doris Kerns Goodwin and many, many others. After nearly 10 years away from the West, she returned to Salt Lake to work as the arts and entertainment editor at the Deseret News before joining the team at RadioWest as executive producer. Perhaps thanks to her pilot father, Cristy is at her very best when traveling and exploring the world.