KBIA

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KBIA is a public radio station broadcasting out of Columbia, Missouri. KBIA is a National Public Radio member station, and carries programming from Public Radio International and other providers.

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Shortage in Rich Land 
7 Pieces

At the end of January 2015, KBIA sent reporters to southeast Missouri to open the “Missouri Bootheel” bureau. Their job was to tackle the stories taking place in the towns, fields and health clinics of Missouri’s most productive farmland. What they found were stories that had resonance far beyond this rural area near the divide of the midwest and the upper south.

  • From: KBIA
  • Updated: Jun 03, 2015

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Health Barriers: Symptoms of a Rural Economy (half hour version)
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: (From left to right) Ryan Famuliner, Kim Hughes, Judith Haggard and Victor Wilburn discuss rural economics and health care access., Credit: Kristofor Husted
On May 20th, KBIA held a community conversation event in Kennett, Mo. The goal was to bring local residents and leaders of rural southeast Missouri...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
Health Barriers: Symptoms of a Rural Economy (hour long version)
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: (From left to right) Ryan Famuliner, Kim Hughes, Judith Haggard and Victor Wilburn discuss rural economics and health care access., Credit: Kristofor Husted
On May 20th, KBIA held a community conversation event in Kennett, Mo. The goal was to bring local residents and leaders of rural southeast Missouri...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:24
Part Five: Counting The Invisible
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Joe Fox is a resident of Safe Haven in Kennett, Mo., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:24
Part Four: The Unspoken Crisis
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Marylouisa Cantu (left) with her case worker Lucretia Cox (center) and mother Star Tafolla, Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
Almost 17 percent of the babies born here in Dunklin County are born premature. According to data from the World Health Organization, if this were ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:10
Part Three: The Small But Mighty Rice Farm
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Chuck Earnest's rice fields near Steele, Mo., are a waterfowl sanctuary during the non-growing season., Credit: Kristofor Husted
For such a small region, this sprawling landscape of the Bootheel has some of the most productive farmland in the U.S. A solid water supply and nut...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:50
Part Two: Desperately Seeking Doctors
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Judith Haggard is one of two nurse practitioners at the Otto Bean Medical Center in Kennett, Mo. The clinic has no full-time doctor so Haggard works with a collaborating physician outside of the SEMO Health Network, which runs Otto Bean., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
Part One: Dogfight On The Rising River
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: A big, metal gate designed in 1914 to protect Cairo, Ill., from flood waters marks the entrance to the town. Today, Cairo's population has dwindled to about 2,800 due in large part to floods, evacuations and a suffering economy., Credit: Kristofor Husted
For years, some small towns and farmers along the Mississippi River have been battling each other over a flood project set up by the U.S. Army Corp...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:08
Heartland, Missouri
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For the past year, KBIA has been working on an investigative story about a place in Northeast Missouri called Heartland. It’s a story with threads ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
PRX Rural Issues Reporting Project: Rural Healthcare in the 2008 Election
From: KBIA
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What rural populations need when it comes to healthcare, and what politicians have to offer.

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WYSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 7
Electronic Stethoscope
From: KBIA
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The history of the stethoscope and its electronic twist

  • Added: Dec 20, 2004
  • Length: 05:01

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Staff of KBIA

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Pat Akers
Senior Media Specialist
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Michael Dunn
General Manager
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Kyle Felling (Admin)
Program Director
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Jessica Naudziunas
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Scott Pham
Volunteer News Producer, Individual Producer
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Ryan Famuliner
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Trevor Harris
Programmer
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Aaron Hay
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Mark Johnson (Admin)
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T'Keyah Thomas (Admin)
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Trevor Grandin (Admin)