Jeff St. Clair
Midday HostExpertise: Science reporting, health and medicine, energy, environment, economy, business, politics and headline news
Education: University of Akron - Bachelor of Science, chemistry
Kent State University - Master of Arts, media management
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Towner's Woods, Kent
Experience:
Jeff St. Clair is an award-winning science reporter whose work has appeared on WKSU and NPR. With more than 20 years of experience in public radio, he's been a folk and classical music host, fund-drive producer, local “Morning Edition” host, “All Things Considered” host, and host of midday programs. He's won national and region awards for best news writing, health coverage and use of sound.
Highlights:
- 2013-2022, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Health care/Science/Medical Reporting
- 2023, Press Club of Cleveland & Associated Press Media Editors, Use of Sound, “Through social media, this Kent musician documents life with chronic fatigue syndrome”
- 2021, Public Media Journalists Association, Second Place Audio Scripting, “COVID Longhaulers Endure Long Wait for Recognition and Treatment”
- 2017 & 2019, Press Club of Cleveland, Best News Writing
- 2015, Edward R. Murrow regional award, Radio Television Digital News Association, Sports Reporting, “Sports Training Can Stem the Epidemic of Knee Injuries in Girls”
Why trust Ideastream Public Media?
The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.
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Brains on Tap is an informal forum to discuss research in neuroscience -
Owen Lovejoy was part of the team that first studied the famous fossil 50 years ago. The discovery helped him formulate theories about the role of the family unit in human evolution. -
A Russian-affiliated ransomware group was behind the attack, said Chris Prewitt, of Inversion6, who helped with the city's response. -
The 50th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Lucy fossil prompts this journalist to reflect on a lifelong fascination with human evolution. -
Ideastream Public Media's midday host Jeff St.Clair spends a lot of time raising chickens when he's off the air, and he's concerned about how bird flu is rampaging in the farm industry. -
A Case Western Reserve University research team found that a protein produced in the gut that activates certain immune cells was present in the central nervous system of ALS patients. -
We tested some common household items known to often contain PFAS to see how common they are. Here's what we found. -
Attorney Robert Bilott has spent decades working to hold chemical manufacturers accountable for contaminating the environment with forever chemicals. -
The parents of a trans child decided to move out of the state when it the legislature moved toward a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth -
A family of widely used chemicals has been implicated in a range of illnesses but are still found in common consumer goods - should we be worried about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS? Ideastream Public Media's reporters try to answer that question.
