Bill Zeeble
ReporterBill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.
He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.
His first real radio gig was with a classical station in Corpus Christi, where the new Texan was dubbed “Billy Ted”; he was also a manager at WNO-FM in New Orleans.
Several stories he covered on television for KERA 13 helped homeowners avoid losing their homes.
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Dallas nonprofit Our Calling was one of two organizations that sheltered Malik Faisal Akram in January. More than a week later, it realized Akram was the hostage-taker at the center of the Colleyville crisis. -
We'll have the latest from the hostage situation which developed overnight at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.
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A police SWAT team is conducting operations at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, near Dallas.
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After leading the Dallas Independent School District from 2005 to 2011, and again since 2015, superintendent Michael Hinojosa said he'll resign at the end of this year. He could be ready sooner though, depending on when the board chooses a new superintendent.
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The omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the state as classes resume for most Texas school kids after their holiday break.
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An education bill designed to highlight and honor the nation’s best high school and college dual-credit programs seemed like an easy sell to two Congressmen from opposing parties. Until it failed. Now, they’re reintroducing it.
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Shooting a gun into the air is a dangerous and unwelcome way to celebrate the New Year. While police know it happens, they also warn they’ll jail and fine you if caught.
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Several speakers spoke in favor of Jeannie Stone, the district's superintendent since 2017.
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The study analyzed the written free expression policies of close to 500 colleges and universities. Three Texas schools were ranked harshly and given “red light” status for restrictive speech policies, while most Texas schools earned a “yellow light” rating, which is average.
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Akash Patel will helm the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Patel’s twin brother died in a plane crash in 2018, and is the inspiration for a nonprofit that connects students, educators and global citizens.
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The two-year community college system is the first in the state to offer a four-year bachelor's program. Its goal is to graduate more teachers to work in North Texas schools.
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During the pandemic, some professors have criticized the college system administration for its handling of COVID-19 cases and campus health and safety.
