Tom Martin
Producer/HostTom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.
Martin, a Morehead native, has served as news anchor for KQV Radio in Pittsburgh, a Peabody Award-winning anchor and documentarian at AP Radio Network News in Washington, D.C., as well as a news anchor for the RKO Radio Network, ABC Network News and WABC News in New York. Tom also served for five years as a vacation substitute for commentator Paul Harvey.
He hosted "The World's First Rhythm and News Show" on WVLK-Lexington and was the founding program director and morning host on WRVG, the former public station at Georgetown College.
From 2005 until 2013, Tom was the founding editor-in-chief for Business Lexington.
You can contact Tom at es@eku.edu
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The issues and obstacles faced by working mothers are Beth Polin’s focus in this debut of her new ES series on working moms.
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Most people agree that Kentucky Republicans drew a severely gerrymandered map in this past redistricting cycle, helping to turn their legislative majority into a supermajority.
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In celebration of our nation’s independence our guests include A.J. Jacobs, author of “The Year of Living Constitutionally”
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You’ve heard about Zuckerbucks, right? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Pricilla Chan donated almost $400 million to local election officials to help run the 2020 election during the pandemic.
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Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, is pushing for a warning label on social media platforms advising parents that using the platforms might damage adolescents’ mental health.
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Voter turnout in America is usually quite low. Could we adopt compulsory voting, as they have in Australia, Belgium, and several places in South America and Latin America?
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The Kentucky Board of Elections membership is split, 50-50, Republican/Democrat. Surely they can’t agree on anything in today's polarized atmosphere, right? Wrong. They’ve managed to accomplish much in a bi-partisan fashion. Our guests: board members Deanna Branger (R), and Ben Chandler (D).
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This week on Episode Six of the Eastern Standard special series, “Democracy Optimist”:
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As we hear from Brooke Bentley, Chair of the EKU School of Nursing, and Associate Chair Lisa Jones, Kentucky needs registered nurses - 6,000 of them.