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Listen To Wednesday Evening's News From KERA

Want to get clued into the region's most interesting stories in less than 10 minutes? KERA 90.1 FM has launched a twice-a-day local news segment from the KERA newsroom. The 10-minute segments air weekdays at 8:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. Click below to listen to Wednesday evening's edition, which includes a profile of the wunderkind who composed the Kennedy 50th anniversary commemoration piece for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Also, hear from an eighth grader paying tribute to JFK through an award-winning essay. Plus, the NSA talks national security at SMU.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.