Erik Neumann
News DirectorErik Neumann is JPR's news director. He earned a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and joined JPR as a reporter in 2019 after working at NPR member station KUER in Salt Lake City. Erik grew up alongside the Puget Sound and is passionate about the power of narrative storytelling to explore the issues that impact people's lives. He has a diverse range of experience in public radio 鈥� reporter, host, producer of live events, and teacher of radio production to young people at Youth Radio in Oakland. Reach Erik at: neumanne1@sou.edu
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The outbreak of avian botulism at the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge has killed tens of thousands of migratory birds this summer. Conservation groups are waiting for cold weather to stop it. -
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Crews are making progress on the Copperfield Fire, which is burning outside of Klamath Falls. -
JPR was among a dozen NPR stations around the country to be recognized in the small market category and the only station in this category to be recognized for investigative reporting. -
Widespread evacuations remained in place Thursday due to the Park Fire. It started in Upper Bidwell Park in Chico on Wednesday. -
While Pacific Power says elevated fire risk settings are an effort to prevent wildfires, many residents are wondering why Talent has been so affected. -
Firefighters are making 鈥済ood progress鈥� on a 1,500-acre wildfire that began growing quickly in the Rogue Valley Sunday afternoon in forest lands outside of Eagle Point, about 20 miles northeast of Medford, Oregon, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. -
Several areas in the Applegate Valley south of the community of Ruch were upgraded to Level 2 "BE SET" to evacuate status on Saturday afternoon. -
The JPR newsroom received a series of awards in 2024 from the Public Media Journalists Association, the Radio Television Digital News Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists. -
Water quality levels on the Klamath River are continuing to improve amid dam deconstruction work, according to the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. -
Douglas fir trees around Ashland are dying in the thousands. It鈥檚 one example of how our changing climate is affecting forests in the region. -
This summer JPR welcomes James Kelley, our sixth intern in the program. James joins JPR from Oregon State University where he was the city editor of OSU鈥檚 student-led publication, the Daily Barometer and where he hosted a radio show on KBVR FM. JPR News Director Erik Neumann spoke with James, who will be arriving in Ashland this June.
