BPR Holds First Joint Listening Session This Thursday April 18th In Bryson City

BPR News | By Matt Bush

Published April 11, 2019 at 6:35 PM EDT

Blue Ridge Public Radio will hold its first ever joint listening session with Smoky Mountain News on Thursday April 18th in Bryson City. We want to hear from you - what are the issues impacting your community most, and how might our outlets best cover them. Tell us from 6:30 to 7:30 at Nantahala Brewing at 61 Depot Street in Bryson City. We hope to see you there! This will be the first of many listening sessions BPR will hold with our news partners across across our listening area over the next year. Stay tuned to hear about the next listening session. If you don't think you can make any of them, let us know about the issues and stories in your community by emailing us at news@bpr.org.

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Matt Bush

Matt Bush joined Blue Ridge Public Radio as news director in August 2016. Excited at the opportunity the build up the news service for both stations as well as help launch BPR News, Matt made the jump to Western North Carolina from Washington D.C. For the 8 years prior to coming to Asheville, he worked at the NPR member station in the nation's capital as a reporter and anchor. Matt primarily covered the state of Maryland, including 6 years of covering the statehouse in Annapolis. Prior to that, he worked at WMAL in Washington and Metro Networks in Pittsburgh, the city he was born and raised in.

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