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BOISE STATE PUBLIC RADIO
In March 2020 Troy Oppie joined Boise State Public Radio as a full-time reporter and weekend host. He had been a freelancer and a volunteer for the radio station in the years prior. He began his journalism career in television sports and news at local stations in Seattle, Missoula and Boise. He rejoined journalism this year after a brief career in finance.
KIVI 6 ON YOUR SIDE/KNIN FOX 9 NOW
KIVI has launched two daily newscasts in Twin Falls on KSAW-TV using a team of reporters stationed in the Magic Valley. They are: Multimedia journalists Natasha Williams, a Boise native and BSU grad who first started working for KIVI at age 15; Stephanie Garibay, a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo grad who most recently interned at KCRA in Sacramento; and Alex Grant, a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia who most recently interned at their Fox affiliate, Fox29.
In Boise, KIVI has brought on two new reporters: Lynsey Amundson, who recently received her master’s in sports journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix and also holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Western Washington University; and Nicole Camarda, a Chico State graduate who interned at Fox40 in Sacramento, ABC7 in San Francisco, NSPR and Action News Now in Chico.
