Rick Holter
Former Vice President of NewsRick Holter was KERA's vice president of news. He oversaw news coverage on all of KERA's platforms – radio, digital and television. Under his leadership, KERA News earned more than 200 local, regional and national awards. In 2017, the station won its first-ever national Edward R. Murrow Award for a video in its series One Crisis Away: Rebuilding A Life. The station won its second national Murrow in 2020, for an Art&Seek video about a time-lapse artist. He and the KERA News staff were also part of NPR's Ebola-coverage team that won a George Foster Peabody Award, broadcasting's highest honor.
His personal essay about grieving long-distance for his father, a COVID-19 victim, earned a regional Murrow Award in 2021.
Rick returned to Dallas in 2012 after six years at NPR, where he edited the shows Weekend All Things Considered and Day to Day, and supervised the Digital News operation. Before that, he spent 15 years at The Dallas Morning News, after editing stints at what was then the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) in Florida and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
In addition to the Peabody, he’s collected honors including USC-Getty Arts Journalism Fellowships in 2005 and 2011, a National Headliners Award (2010), a NLGJA Award (2009) and numerous newspaper design awards. He also edited and designed a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature series (1992). A graduate of the University of Maryland, he grew up on a dairy farm in Middletown, Md.
Got a tip? Email Rick at rholter@kera.org. You can follow him on Twitter at @rickholter.
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