Ryan Vasquez
WWNO and WRKF News DirectorRyan Vasquez is the news director for WWNO and WRKF. He has a 17-year career in public broadcasting with stops at Alabama Public Radio, where he was a reporter and host, and WUFT in Gainesville, Fla., where he was multimedia news manager, audio and led a largely-student newsroom.
He's been an instructor and professor in journalism for 13 years at both University of Alabama and University of Florida. Vasquez serves on the diversity, equity and inclusion committee for the Public Media Journalists Association, the safety committee for the Radio Television Digital News Association and on the membership committee for the Society of Professional Journalists.
Vasquez has a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida and a master's degree from the University of Alabama. He can be reached at ryanv@wrkf.org.
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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear the second part of the latest episode of Sea Change about the lasting impacts of segregated beaches in New Orleans. Plus, we head to the Historic New Orleans Collection to learn about an exhibit on the connection between slavery and the modern prison system. -
On today’s episode of Louisiana Considered, the Sea Change team speaks with members of Louisiana’s coastal Vietnamese communities to learn how climate change impacts their livelihoods. Also, we hear how Willie Mays was remembered this week at the ballpark in Birmingham, Alabama that launched his career. -
Sea Change brings together grassroots leaders from across the world to discuss the liquified natural gas industry’s local and worldwide impacts. -
In this final episode of "All Gassed Up," we travel to Japan to learn about the country's liquefied natural gas plant expansion. -
University of New Orleans President Kathy Johnson asked the school’s four colleges to cut their budgets by 15% for the coming fiscal year. -
Sea Change travels to Japan where they find out the country is making a big bet that good times in the liquefied natural gas industry will keep rolling. -
Sea Change heads to Germany, where the show discovers how the country is playing a huge role in the expansion of Liquefied Natural Gas along the Gulf Coast. -
We head to Germany to find out why the U.S. is exporting liquefied natural gas to Europe and what that means for our climate. -
Sea Change heads to Cameron Parish to discover what the expansion of liquified natural gas, or LNG, plants means for the people living near them. Plus, a Mississippi program aims to turn formerly incarcerated people into lobbyists. -
How a massive LNG expansion is changing one Gulf Coast community. Plus, Louisiana lawmakers shot down an abortion rights amendment this week.
