Eric Aasen
Managing EditorEric Aasen is KERA’s managing editor. He helps lead the station's news department, including radio and digital reporters, producers and newscasters. He also oversees keranews.org, the station’s news website, and manages the station's digital news projects. He reports and writes stories for the website and contributes pieces to KERA radio. He's discussed breaking news live on various public radio programs, including The Takeaway, Here & Now and Texas Standard, as well as radio and TV programs in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
In 2015, Eric was part of a KERA team that won a national Online Journalism Award. In 2017, KERA earned a station-record eight regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, including Overall Excellence. Also in 2017, KERA was nominated for a national Online Journalism Award for the station's coverage of the deadly Dallas police shooting.
Eric joined KERA in 2013 after 11 years as a reporter at The Dallas Morning News. His subjects ranged from the fiery demise of Big Tex (the iconic State Fair of Texas cowboy), to a friendly goose who helped children cross a busy street to school. He’s won numerous awards, including honors from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors for his feature writing and breaking news reporting.
A Minnesota native, Eric has wanted to be a journalist since he was in the third grade. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from DePauw University in Indiana, where he earned a political science degree and served as editor-in-chief of The DePauw student newspaper.
Eric and his wife, who’s also a journalist, have a daughter and son.
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One Dallas police officer has died from his injuries and a second remains in critical condition after they were shot while trying to remove a man from a…
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Texas is getting tough with chronically low-performing schools. A 2015 law allows the state education commissioner to shut down schools or take over…
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After Hurricane Harvey hammered the Texas Gulf Coast, state and federal officials decided to change some of the ways they respond to a disaster.The…
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The former superintendent of the Dallas County Schools bus agency has been charged for his role in taking more than $3 million in bribes and kickback…
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In cities across Texas Saturday, thousands of people protested gun violence and called for stricter gun regulations.Rallies organized in Dallas, Fort…
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The top local stories this evening from KERA News: The rain just won't go away. Up to 8 inches of rain has fallen over the last three days in parts of…
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The top local stories this morning from KERA News: A new flood watch has been issued for essentially the entire, already-rain soaked Dallas-Fort Worth…
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The top local stories this evening from KERA News:The Plano City Council will meet Sunday to discuss the future of member Tom Harrison.He's drawn…
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North Texas just recorded its warmest year on record.In 2017, the average temperature in Dallas-Fort Worth was 69.8 degrees, and that beat the previous…
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The top local stories this evening from KERA News: The South Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services…
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The top local stories this evening from KERA News: A Confederate plaque in the Texas Capitol may be closer to coming down.State Rep. Eric Johnson, a…
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Across Texas, city officials are critical of the special session agenda set by Gov. Greg Abbott -- they say many of the items are basically an attempt by…