Joe Moore
President & General ManagerJoe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. From 2010-2018 he served as the station's Director of Program Content. In that role, he launched the station's local news department, hosted the program Valley Edition, and represented the station in the design-build process for KVPR's new broadcast center.
Since becoming President and General Manager in 2019, he has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
He is a Fresno native and a graduate of California State University, Fresno.
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Recent arrests of undocumented immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials inside Central Valley courthouses from Fresno to Sacramento…
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Acclaimed biographer Miriam Pawel's newest work tells the story of the most influential family in California political history. In The Browns of…
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Valley Edition - August 28, 2018: Reducing Violence In Health Care, Gustavo Arellano, Saroyan MuseumThis week on Valley Edition - we look back to when the U.S. government tried to replace migrant farmworkers with high schoolers in a conversation with…
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A new survey released last week by the Poynter Institute suggests that Americans trust their local media more than many national news outlets. But charges…
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California is often at odds with the Trump administration, and the latest battleground could be in the issue of managing the state's precious water…
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Brian Turner is perhaps best known in Central California, and across the country as a poet whose art has been fused in a time of war. Author of the…
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Over 50 Years Ago, The U.S. Tried To Replace Farm Workers With High Schoolers. Here's What Happened:The San Joaquin Valley’s farm workers are some of the hardest working people in the world. They toil for long hours in the fields to pick the food that…
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The Fresno Philharmonic has launched its new season of concerts, the second under music director Rei Hotoda. Now Hotoda is also receiving another honor -…
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This week on Valley Edition, we begin a new series on the issue of workplace violence enountered by doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. We…
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