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Embedded Radio Special

Monday, July 10, 2017, 9 PM

NPR’s Embedded podcast is offering a one-hour special for the radio. The program, hosted by All Things Considered’s Kelly McEvers,showcases the podcast’s in-depth reporting on videos of police encounters and how the proliferation of this kind of video has affected life in America. The hour features three stories, each centering on a different incident. In one, an unarmed black man is fatally shot by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. The dash-cam footage is subsequently used by both the prosecution and the defense as the officer stands trial. In another, a policeman’s body-cam captures his own death at the hands of a suspect. That haunting video goes on to become a part of police training even as it raises many questions. Finally, a tense standoff between an officer and a murder suspect ends without a single bullet fired, possibly because of the ubiquity of these videos today. The three stories portray a vivid picture of the current cultural moment; one that some researchers say is prompting the most significant reevaluation of police-community relations since the videotaped beating of Rodney King back in the early 1990s.

Tony became WVPE's program director in 2022, after working as operations manager since 2014. He also produces Michiana Chronicles and works on other special programming and digital projects. He joined the station as All Things Considered host in 1997, hosted Morning Edition in 2000 and 2001, then returned to the ATC host chair from 2007 to 2016. One of his Morning Edition newscasts earned WVPE a Best Radio Newscast Award from the Associated Press in 2002. An Iowa native, Tony got his start in radio as a student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), Harrisonburg, Va., and managed the radio station there for three years after graduating. He also worked in commercial and Christian radio prior to his time at WVPE. Tony lives in Goshen.