Beau Baker
Managing Newscast EditorEmail: beau.baker@kunc.org
As the Managing Newscast Editor, I provide listeners with news and information critical to our region.
I grew up listening to public radio in rural Idaho and those airwaves made a deep impression on me. Radio is a dynamic medium that brings people comfort, comradery and consciousness. It’s always been a privilege to work in the broadcast ranks.
My background is in environmental and natural resource journalism and small-scale agriculture. Before moving to Colorado with my wife, I worked as a Reporter, Producer and Morning Edition Host at Montana Public Radio. I also spent a few summers commercial fishing in Alaska. More recently, I served as a reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau.
When not on the air, I’m eating, biking or on the hunt for LPs.
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Agriculture is the economic engine in Colorado's northeastern corner. A report by Colorado State University and the Fort Collins-based NoCo Foundation details the way in which that makes these rural communities resilient, but also vulnerable. -
Crews have been removing debris this month from a shopping center in Nederland that burned down last year. The work was delayed earlier this year while the property owner and state regulators figured out how to protect the community from asbestos exposure. -
Preliminary elections results show strong support for local incumbents around the region. Voters also picked several new mayors. -
The Colorado National Heritage Survey spans plants, animals, and insects in every county in the state. Scientists and community volunteers are entering their third year of collecting data for the massive biodiversity project. -
A quirky festival built on the legend of a cryogenically frozen Norwegian man is back in Estes Park this weekend. -
Boulder is holding a Day of Remembrance event this weekend to honor the victims killed in a mass shooting on March 22, 2021. -
Xcel Energy will preemptively shut down power to thousands of customers along the Front Range Saturday because of dangerous fire weather conditions in the forecast. The utility is still working to get the lights back for hundreds of customers after another wind even Thursday knocked out power. -
Workers at the JBS plant in Greeley are planning to strike starting Monday. The meatpacking giant has stopped all processing at the plant and is shipping cattle to other facilities. -
A bill sponsored by Senator Cathy Kipp of Fort Collins died at the capitol last week. It was trying to close a loophole that gave Colorado State University the ability to step around local noise and billboard ordinances. CSU had paused its electronic billboard build-out before the proposal was axed. -
The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) is swinging through the Front Range this weekend for its third World Cup event of the season featuring nearly 100 athletes from around the world.
