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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“A Way With Words” co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett will be in Lexington for the 2025 Kentucky Book Festival. -
Weather forecasting. Meteorology. Why it’s critical to our well-being, and what has been happening to weather forecasting on the national level. -
The Social Security Trust Fund is projected to become insolvent in 2032. -
People hear the phrase “civics education,” and they often think of K-12 classes in government. -
Lisa McKinney of the non-partisan, non-profit Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence raises concerns about the Trump administration clawback of federal education funding and its proposal to make further cuts in the coming year. -
Happenings in the Kentucky literary scene. We’re joined by Jennifer Mattox, executive director of the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, discussing the immediate impacts of the Trump administration’s cuts in funding of the National Endowment for the Arts. -
Eastern Standard Education Contributor Brigitte Blom and guest, RofL professor Roman Yompolskiy, on what to anticipate as AI becomes ever more present in the educational experiences of Kentucky’s youth. -
Some central Kentucky residents believe the area has the potential to be the go-to for Ag-Tech. -
Interview with artist Amanda Matthews -
Under the Trump administration, the EPA is moving to relax anti-pollution controls and is dismantling its scientific research arm. We invited Kentucky Resources Council executive director Ashley Wilmes, an environmental attorney, to help us distill these actions down to local consequences.
