Frankie Barnhill
Idaho Matters Senior ProducerFrankie Barnhill was the Senior Producer of Idaho Matters, Boise State Public Radio's daily show and podcast.
She also hosted and produced Wanna Know Idaho, Idaho's audience-powered podcast.
Frankie's reporting has appeared on NPR's Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. The award-winning journalist has received national accolades from the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated for breaking news reporting, as well as regional Edward R. Murrow awards for both hard news and features. She co-hosted Boise State Public Radio's first podcast, Speaking of Serial, which won an Idaho Press Club award.
She earned her production chops at American Public Media, where she interned for Marketplace Tech Report and American RadioWorks. Frankie was also a researcher in Minnesota Public Radio's newsroom for an investigative report on bullying.
As a freelance reporter in 2014, Frankie won a grant to profile five emerging artists for Boise State Public Radio's audience. The project, entitled "Artist Statement,"was an exploration of Boise's burgeoning artistic scene.
Frankie was a fellow with the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources in 2013 and again in 2015 and 2018, where she began to hone her environmental reporting skills.
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Wildfire smoke and community health are the topics on tap at a virtual symposium set for Nov. 12.
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It’s getting colder, and just in time for the temperatures to begin to drop some blockbusters are on the horizon. Idaho Matters speaks with resident film critic and Boise State Public Radio host George Prentice about some new movies to keep on your radar.
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Election night is behind us and the results are in. In Boise and the Wood River Valley, incumbents had a big night. How about in other parts of the state?
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Boise author Mindy Thompson’s “The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams” is set in New York in 1944, a time when war shaped so much of American family life.
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The Idaho Matters Reporter Roundtable makes sense of the past week in Boise and beyond.
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Boise is still mourning the loss of two community members who were killed from a shooting Monday at the Towne Square Mall. How did we get here — and how do we prevent more shootings in the future?
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Yesterday was a dark day in Boise. Two people were killed during a shooting at the Boise Towne Square Mall, and four injured victims were sent to the hospital.
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Supply chain issues — typically a rather dry topic — have been getting a lot of attention lately. that’s because of a backlog at ports around the world that’s making it a lot harder for businesses, both big and small, to stock their planned inventory. Which links in the supply chain are broken — and when will they be fixed?
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City of Good is a Boise-based nonprofit that was founded at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. In fact, the pandemic was the driving force behind its mission to help feed people who found themselves in a tough place do to the COVID-19 crisis.
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During the pandemic, some things have endured while some things have been reinvented. Book clubs are one thing that has flourished in the last year or so — with some changes due COVID.