Cristy Meiners
KUER 90.1 has named Cristy Meiners as interim station manager through this summer. Meiners will oversee operations, programming, news and more for the NPR-member station. She is executive producer of Radio West. Meiners began her journalism and public radio career as an intern in Washington, D.C., on NPR’s Arts Desk. She produced The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend for SiriusXM Satellite Radio for eight years. She returned to Salt Lake City as the arts and entertainment editor at The Deseret News before joining the RadioWest team in 2019. Meiners has a B.A. in English from the University of Utah and an M.A. in humanities from Brigham Young University. Meiners succeeds Joel Meyer, who came to KUER as program director in 2018 and who is leaving the station to take a role as chief content officer at Freakonomics Radio Network.
