Bri Kirkham
Digital EditorBri Kirkham is the digital editor for Texas Public Radio. In her role she works with reporters to help transform radio scripts into web articles. Her goal is to make stories more interactive by creating multimedia elements like infographics, maps and videos.
Bri comes to San Antonio after living most of her life in southern Indiana. She graduated from Ball State University with degrees in journalism and telecommunications. After undergrad she continued her education at Syracuse University, earning her master's degree in arts journalism. During grad school she interned at BUST magazine in Brooklyn.
Her professional career experience includes working for newspapers as a crime reporter and digital editor. Most of her reporting focused on violent crime and the opioid epidemic in Illinois and Indiana.
On her days off you can find her at the movies, on a body of water or at a restaurant trying new food. While she loves the Hoosier state, she's excited to plant roots in San Antonio and Texas Public Radio.
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Queen Elizabeth II never formally met with former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who died in 1973, four years after his presidency ended. He's believed to be the only president during her reign who she didn't meet. Here's who the queen did meet on her trip to Texas in 1991. -
City staff did not recommend a finding of historic significance, but instead offered proposals including funding from the property owner toward an exhibit at Museo del Westside. An investment company managed by Douglas Miller of the Bill Miller Bar-B-Q currently owns the property. The company had plans to demolish the structure, before it caught fire in February, and build a residential high-rise. -
In a now-deleted Facebook post, the group “D’Hanis Spirit Fundraising” promoted a gun raffle fundraiser that would benefit children who attend D’Hanis Independent School District. For just $10 participants could win one of four guns — an action rifle, an AR-556, a 12 gauge semi-automatic or a pistol. A leopard print purse was also included in the fundraiser. -
The corpse flower at San Antonio's Zoo isn't blooming. A life coach says we can learn from its storyThe San Antonio Zoo's corpse flower is healthy, but it won’t bloom this season. A life coach explains what we can take away from its experience. -
"We're going to see it impact San Antonio specifically. And I don't think San Antonians are ready enough for that to help out their community because it's all on us now. All we have is each other." -
This kind of care isn’t typical counseling in which a client comes to an office and sits on the sofa for an hour. Instead one might scream in a car, punch a pillow or be comforted with a stuffed animal. -
Las llamadas al 911 realizadas durante el tiroteo en la escuela primaria Robb no fueron comunicadas directamente al jefe de policía de Uvalde CISD, Pete Arredondo, en el lugar, según el senador estatal Roland Gutiérrez. -
“What we do know is that the 911 calls were not being communicated to the so-called incident commander, Officer Arredondo. They were being communicated to a Uvalde police officer.”
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Parents and other guardians waited desperately trying to get more information on what was happening and where their children were. -
Están surgiendo más detalles sobre la respuesta de las fuerzas del orden público al tiroteo masivo en la Escuela Primaria Robb en Uvalde que mató a 19 niños y dos miembros de la facultad.Los padres y otros tutores estaban afuera de la escuela ese día tratando desesperadamente de obtener más información sobre lo que estaba pasando y dónde se encontraban sus hijos.
