Emily Donahue
Emily Donahue is KUT’s news director. She has spent more than two decades in broadcast journalism and launched KUT’s news department in 2001. Previously, Emily was part of the Peabody-award winning team at Marketplace as producer of the Marketplace Morning Report. Since coming to KUT, Emily has overseen a doubling of the news staff and content, the accumulation of more than 50 local, national and international awards for journalistic excellence and served on several boards, including the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters and as a member of the 2011 Texas Association of Broadcasters Open Government Task Force. Emily lives in Austin and is currently working on her Master’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.
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From Texas Standard: Over the past several months, Texas has become home to hundreds of Syrian refugees. These people fled their homes because of... -
Slavery still exists in Texas – it just isn't always easy to see. But a new project hopes to bring awareness to a problem that often hides in plain... -
On September 18, Scottish voters will decide on the future of their country – whether Scotland should be an independent country, or remain part of the... -
Texans are still talking about Gov. Rick Perry's statements this week on the growing threat posed by the Islamic State terror group, known by the... -
Chris Tomlinson spent most of his life comfortable that he knew who he was and where he came from. After all, a small part of Texas was named after his...
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While the crisis in Iraq is half a world away, it’s impact can be felt here in the U.S. The rapidly destabilizing region is a base for major Texas oil... -
The overall Austin population exploded between 2000 and 2010, growing by more than 20 percent. But a University of Texas study [PDF] finds that Austin... -
"It's an Orange Aardvark!" is the new book from Michael Hall. It's a short book, so we don't want to give anything away. But we can tell you it involves... -
The news that the NBA is going to try to force Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers and ban him for for life has reverberated around the...
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There are few incidents in Texas history as compelling as the UT Tower shooting. On August 1, 1966, a UT student and ex-marine named Charles Whitman...
