{"id":8284,"date":"2014-12-08T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2014-12-08T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:22:33","slug":"burress-01-you-can-hear-him-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/12\/08\/burress-01-you-can-hear-him-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Burress &#8217;01 \u2013 you can hear him on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jim Burress &#8217;01<\/strong> is the host of NPR&#8217;s <em>Weekend Edition<\/em> and a reporter at WABE radio in Atlanta.\u00a0 Jim was working on his PhD when the lure of reporting called him back to the radio studio and reporting in the field.\u00a0 He has been at WABE in Atlanta since 2008.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wabe.org\/people\/jim-burress\">Click here<\/a> to read a news story about Jim and see samples of his stories, where he covers a variety of topics from aviation to healthcare, as well as international topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/12\/Buress-Jim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8285\" alt=\"Buress Jim\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/12\/Buress-Jim.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim was active with the Wabash WNDY radio station as a student.\u00a0 He earned a master&#8217;s in Mass Communication from Murray State University and began his career with public radio.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Jim, now we can say &#8220;we heard it on NPR&#8221; \u2013 from you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em> WABE 90.1 FM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Burress &#8217;01 is the host of NPR&#8217;s Weekend Edition and a reporter at WABE radio in Atlanta.\u00a0 Jim was working on his PhD when the lure of reporting called him back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/12\/Buress-Jim.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}