Lu Anne Stephens
Director of Content | Assistant General ManagerLu Anne Stephens has held many positions over many years at KMUW, including local host of NPR’s Morning Edition and reporter/editor. In addition to her current duties as Director of Content and Assistant General Manager, Lu Anne produces KMUW’s New Settler's Radio Hour and countless special productions.
In 2018, Lu Anne was recognized with a first place award from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters for her production work on a Media Circus promotion announcement featuring Bill Kurtis of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! She produces the Hidden Kansas segment for KMUW’s weekly news program The Range and was a producer on season two of My Fellow Kansans from the Kansas News Service. In 2020, Lu Anne received first place in Public Affairs Program from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters for her contributions to My Fellow Kansans.
After studying music performance and journalism at Pittsburg State University, Lu Anne completed her degree at Wichita State University in 1995. She has won several awards for journalistic excellence since she has been at KMUW.
Lu can be reached by email at stephens@kmuw.org.
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After recording his last four albums in Los Angeles, Wichita musician David Lord returned to Wichita for his latest record, Way Over The Rainbow. We have Jedd Beaudoin's conversation with Lord, and news from Wichita and around the state. -
The Frostbite Regatta has attracted hundreds of rowing clubs to Wichita since its start in 1992. The competition is hosted by the Wichita Rowing Association and takes place on the first Sunday in November. KMUW's Lu Anne Stephens was there this year and has this Wichita Soundscape. -
It took more than three years, but the renovation of the Kansas Museum of History is now finished. The museum on the outskirts of Topeka reopened last weekend, and the updated structure changes the way Kansas history is depicted. We take a look inside the new Kansas Museum of History. And we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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A Wichita woman who loves playing the clown...and we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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Joanne Shaw Taylor began playing blues music as a teenager, but she says that finding her voice in that genre as a writer and a singer has presented a series of challenges. And we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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October used to be firmly in the “fall” category – with an abundant tapestry of colorful elms and maples. But in south-central Kansas, summer can stubbornly hang on into early November. While we’re waiting for those brilliant autumn colors, there’s a subtle beauty to be found – if you know where to look. Lu Anne Stephens tells us about one place in this month’s Hidden Kansas. -
How a Wichita screenwriter decided to boldly go and explore a strange, new world. And we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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We hear from a photographer who covered the Million Man March... 30 years ago. And we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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Kansas has more rural hospitals at risk of closure than any other state and changes at the federal level are further complicating things. That leaves hospital officials planning for the future. And we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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Griffin Bush of the band Social Cinema says that his lyric writing is always about self-expression. And we have news from Wichita and around the state.
