Karen Tricot Steward
As Content Development Director, Karen Tricot Steward oversees the creation of news and cultural programming and helps set standards and best practices. She manages content on our website and social media. Karen also coordinates the internship program and collaborates with journalism professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to teach students, helping fulfill public radio’s goal of serving the community by being a place of learning.
She started at KUAR in 2001 as a news reporter. She has also served as local host and news anchor for Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
For her news reporting, she has received several awards from the Arkansas Associated Press for stories on topics like the Little Rock mayoral race and Iraq War veterans in Arkansas. She also won a first place award from the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative reporting. Karen has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Phone: 501-569-8491
E-mail: karen@kuar.org
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Arkansas has carried out its final execution for the month of April. Eight death row inmates were scheduled to die in less than two weeks in Arkansas in...
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On Friday, a judge in Arkansas halted the scheduled executions of seven death row inmates . The executions were scheduled to begin today and be carried... -
Governor Asa Hutchinson has great confidence that the seven executions set for this month will be carried out successfully.“I don't expect [a botched… -
With the passing of veteran Washington journalist Gwen Ifill this week, we look back on a 2009 interview she did with Steve Barnes of the Arkansas... -
Arkansas foster care officials say a proposed $26 million budget increase will allow them to hire hundreds of more staffers over the next two years as... -
11:30 p.m. Arkansas has become the first state in the Bible Belt to legalize medical marijuana. With their approval of Issue 6 on Tuesday, voters will... -
We have a robust team of local reporters out on the scene working to bring you voting results with context. In our studios providing analysis are... -
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