Memories of WBRU

Series produced by George Mesthos

Caption: Elevator interview with John Kerry., Credit: Ryan Muller, 2007
Image by: Ryan Muller, 2007 
Elevator interview with John Kerry. 

The best pieces from my work at WBRU-FM News Providence.

For four years I reported about the issues affecting Providence, Rhode Island and Southern New England. Here I post the top ones including my profile of a Virginia Tech victim, a recap of the Harlem Globetrotter's visit to the Dunk, coverage of a presidential visit and investigative features on minority contracting.


7 Pieces

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Caption: Me interviewing RI GOP chair Gio Cicione, Credit: Lammis Vargas took this photo with my camera.
I spent the first three days of my senior year of college in Minnesota watching Rhode Island's Republicans get rowdy at the site of a woman from Al...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: Elevator interview with John Kerry., Credit: Ryan Muller, 2007
This investigation epitomized my summer as News Director (2007). A tiny aspect of a Providence Journal story turned into an interview which turned ...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 07:31
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Caption: Elevator interview with John Kerry., Credit: Ryan Muller, 2007
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf was (and is) still in a shambles in many places. The culprits of the man-made disaster? Ridiculed but l...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 06:58
Caption: Elevator interview with John Kerry., Credit: Ryan Muller, 2007
The least planned and most cited moment of my WBRU career. My interview with Senator and former presidential John Kerry didn't last long, but it go...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: Street Workers may look fierce but their mission one of friendship and love., Credit: nonviolenceinstitute.org
Just as Gen. David Petraeus was rolling out "soft-power" tactics in Iraq, WBRU News aired this feature on the community end of Providence's communi...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 07:12
Caption: Photo from a memorial on April 16, 2008., Credit: rvaseedsowers.wordpress.com
One Rhode Islander lost his life when a gunman opened fire on Virginia Tech on the morning of April 16 2007. Dan O'Neil's friends celebrated his l...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:31
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My first major feature (surviving) piece as a member of WBRU Sports way back in 2006. I had the opportunity to cover one of my favorite sports team...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 06:49