Keri Brown

Reporter

Keri Brown is a reporter and host at WFDD.  She comes to the Triad from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, where she served as the Chief Bureau Reporter for the Northern Panhandle. Prior to her time at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Keri was the head assignment editor at WTRF-TV in Wheeling and a field producer and assignment manager at WPGH Fox 53 in Pittsburgh. She is a graduate of Ohio University.

Keri has also served as an adjunct professor at Wheeling Jesuit University and Bethany College in West Virginia. She enjoys covering business and education stories. Keri has worked with the Center for Educational Technologies in Wheeling, W. Va. and other NASA centers across the country to develop several stories about the use of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts in the classroom. 

Keri won a 2011 PRNDI award for her spot news coverage during the funeral for five Guilford County children who died in a murder-suicide shooting rampage.

The West Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association awarded first place in the Feature category for her 2010 story about steel communities suffering from layoffs. Keri also received an Associated Press Award for Best Enterprise Reporting in 2005 for her story about drug trafficking in Wheeling.

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News
12:50 am
Tue May 7, 2013

Winston-Salem City Council Divided on Proposed Sale of Joel Coliseum & Bowman Gray Stadium

Credit Keri Brown
Winston-Salem City Council will consider two resolutions about the potential sale of Joel Coliseum & Bowman Gray Stadium on May 20.

A proposal to sell the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem has cleared another hurdle. 

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Education
1:49 pm
Mon May 6, 2013

What Will Public Education Look Like in NC Over the Next Five Years?

Credit Keri Brown
The community discussion about public education will examine funding and other issues facing N.C. public schools.

A public forum in Greensboro this week will take a closer look at the issues and challenges facing North Carolina's public education system. The event, titled "Keep Public in Public Education", is sponsored by several organizations in the Piedmont Triad, including the Guilford County Association of Educators and the League of Women Voters.

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Education
7:56 pm
Thu May 2, 2013

Guilford County Students Connect With International Space Station

Credit Keri Brown
The amateur radio connection with the International Space Station lasted around ten minutes. Sixteen out of 20 Guilford County students were able to get their questions in, before the signal faded.

Students in Guilford County had an out-of-this world conversation Thursday with an astronaut orbiting above Greensboro in the International Space Station.

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Environment
5:30 pm
Wed May 1, 2013

Forsyth County Gets an "F" for Ozone Levels

Credit by Environment Blog via flickr
The metropolitan are in Winston-Salem/Greensboro received a failing grade for some air quality levels.

According to the American Lung Association, more than 131.8 million people in the United States, or four in ten people live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution. The organization gave several counties in N.C. high marks for air quality in a new report. But some Triad counties received a failing grade.

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News
4:46 pm
Tue April 30, 2013

Community Invited to Share Thoughts on Gun Violence

Credit Elon Univerity
The public forum on gun violence at Elon University on Wednesday will focus on a variety of topics, including mental health issues, gun rights and school safety.

Gun violence is fresh on the minds of many people after the Newtown Elementary School Shootings in Connecticut and the recent shoot-out that followed a manhunt in the Boston Marathon bombings. Elon University in Alamance County is hosting a public forum tonight/Wednesday to take a closer look at the issue.

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