Joe Barr
Director of News and Information
Joe Barr oversees Capital Public
Radio's news and information format, including local news, the
daily talk show Insight and the Second Opinions health care forums
as well as national news programming on CPR.
Barr developed CPR's statewide news service, California
Capitol Network which now reaches about two-million
listeners a week on more than two-dozen public radio stations in
California, Oregon and Nevada. Barr has overseen
significant growth of CPR's news operation and led it to
numerous awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award for
Investigative Reporting. National Public Radio President
and CEO Vivian Schiller has called CPR News a "role model" for
the rest of the public radio system.
Before joining Capital Public Radio Barr
was a Senior Producer for the news division of the
Westwood One radio network. Barr managed news coverage
used by more than a thousand radio stations around the country as
part of the Metro Source News service. He coordinated
coverage from dozens of reporters and bureaus around the country.
Barr also wrote stories on everything from the impeachment of
President Clinton and the massacre at Colorado's Columbine
High School to the tumultuous 2000 Presidential
election.
Barr was an award winning reporter at NPR affiliate
station KJZZ in Phoenix and he's also worked at commercial
radio news stations in Western Pennsylvania. Barr's stories
have aired on NPR, Marketplace, ABC Radio, Monitor Radio, Voice of
America and others. Barr has had a long-time love of radio
and got his start in college at Clarion University of Pennsylvania
working at two campus radio stations and a commercial radio station
simultaneously.
Barr lives in Sacramento with his wife, Nicole.
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