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: Anyone who eats barbecue in Texas has been there: stand in line, order your meat – meat that many have raised to an art if not a... -
From Texas Standard: In times like these, the arc of history is often invoked to make sense of the present. So the narrative goes, the so-called Islamic... -
From Texas Standard: Over the past several months, Texas has become home to hundreds of Syrian refugees. These people fled their homes because of... -
From Texas Standard: The healthcare marketplace is open once again, but if you look closely at the offered insurance plans you might find something... -
From Texas Standard: Yesterday, a new undercover video was released by the anti-abortion group targeting Planned Parenthood. Shot in Austin, the video... -
From Texas Standard: Texas barbecue, like Texas itself, has many origins. There's the Mexican influence, which you can taste when you bite into a juicy... -
From Texas Standard: Get ready, folks. We're officially a week away from the biggest event in Texas: the Texas Tribune Festival, that annual gathering... -
From Texas Standard: This week in Texas politics: in between court appearances, A.G. Paxton visits a church in central Texas and Sen. Cruz rounds up... -
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From Texas Standard: It's been called the checkpoint of the stars: Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and Fiona Apple have all been snagged at the Sierra Blanca...
