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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If you’ve ever hiked some of Idaho’s tallest peaks, you may have been lucky enough to glimpse a pika scurrying around underfoot. But as climate change affect the Northern Rockies in ways humans can notice, the pika is one species that is beginning to die out.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on health care workers across the country as they struggle with another onslaught of patients. How has this affected the future doctors of our state?
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Idaho is once again on the big screen — this time in a feature length drama filmed in Sun Valley.
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Wildfire season is winding down across much of the Mountain West as cold weather moves in. But it's the perfect time to set controlled, or prescribed, fires to burn unwanted dead trees and underbrush that fuel larger wildfires.
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Live performances are back at the Morrison Center in Boise this fall. After a long break due to the pandemic, group's like LED Boise are back in front of audiences. This Saturday, LED will showcase their new show called Silver City at the Morrison Center.
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As the sun was setting on last year’s legislative session, Idaho passed a law that could shrink the number of wolves in the state by 90%. Now, wolf conservation groups are fighting back.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, many public health officials in Idaho have called on people to put political differences aside to safeguard the community from COVID-19. Despite this, it seems as though political division has grown even more intense.
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Idaho’s current COVID-19 surge driven by the delta variant and low vaccinations has been deadly for our homeless population. These folks are some of the most vulnerable to the virus in our community — so getting them vaccinated and protected is a top priority.
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It's Friday — which means it's time to catch up on all of the news that made headlines this week with help local journalists.
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Idaho has been in the national news this week after a back-and-forth argument between Governor Brad Little and Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin went viral.