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Sage Smiley is KYUK's news director.

Bud Johnson began his foray into radio as a volunteer for a small community radio station in a remote Alaska village on the Yukon River. He was asked to host a four-hour jazz show, but after discovering a treasure trove of contemporary folk music in the station library, he decided to devote the first hour to his new passion and called it Acoustic Accents.

A huge part of music, although obvious, is listening. Really listening. Music isn’t just a commodity or surface-level entertainment. It is history, vast arrays of human expression, and the source of many people’s livelihoods. With that, I do see myself as a crate digger, whether physical or digital. I love the niche and the popular. I love the old and the new. I love to share music, curate playlists and relate music to how others and I feel.

Prior to joining KDLL's news team in May 2024, O'Hara spent nearly four years reporting for the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai. Before that, she was a freelance reporter for The New York Times, a statehouse reporter for the Columbia Missourian and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. You can reach her at aohara@kdll.org

Josh has worked at NHPR since 2000 and serves as NHPRâââ

Sonja Hutson is a politics and government reporter at KUER. She’s been reporting on politics ever since the 10th grade, when she went to so many school board meetings the district set up a press table for her. Before coming to Utah, Sonja spent four years at KQED in San Francisco where she covered everything from wildfires to the tech industry. When she’s not working, you can find her skiing, camping, or deeply invested in a 1000 piece puzzle.

Emily Jones locally hosts Morning Edition and reports on all things coastal Georgia for GPB’s Savannah bureau. Before coming to GPB, she studied broadcast journalism at the Columbia Journalism School and urban history at Brown University. She’s worked for the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, WHYY in Philadelphia, and WBRU and RIPR in Providence. In addition to anchoring and reporting news at WBRU, Emily hosted the alt-rock station’s Retro Lunch as her DJ alter-ego, Domino.