Robbie Harris
WVTF/RADIO IQ New River Valley Bureau ChiefRobbie Harris is based in Blacksburg, covering the New River Valley and southwestern Virginia.
The former news director of WBEZ/ Chicago Public Radio and WHYY in Philadelphia, she led award-winning news teams and creative projects. Early in her career, she was the Humanities Reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio, and also served as a tape editor on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
Robbie worked at New Jersey Public Television and WCAU/CBS TV in Philadelphia while she pursued her Master's Degree at the University of Pennsylvania. During college, she was a Page at Saturday Night Live in New York and a reporter and program host for Cross Country Cable Television in Somerville, NJ. Robbie also worked at the Rutgers College Radio Station, WRSU and was part of the team which founded "Knight Time Television" at the university.
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One of the longest studies on early childhood development is out with its latest findings. Researchers followed two groups from infancy through adulthood…
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Solar energy in Southwestern Virginia is expected to increase, now that the utility that serves the region, Appalachian Power, may be lifting long held…
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Southwest Virginia is known for its majestic mountains, but there’s a whole other landscape below the surface. The variety of colors and textures in soil…
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Thirty years after scientists began mapping human genome, we’re all familiar with the idea that our genes account for many of our physical…
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Southwestern Virginia has a long history of coal mining, but its energy future is a work in progress. A pilot project is underway to transform former coal…
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How do you go home again, when home is no longer there? A new documentary on a small mountain community called Rock Castle Gorge is about a place that…
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Lyme disease is on the rise. Higher global temperatures are part of the problem, helping ticks thrive. But it turns out, the infamous black legged deer…
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Researchers at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have recieved a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, for a groundbreaking…
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This year’s, graduation ceremonies may look more like a masked ball, but the pomp and circumstance will be more poignant than ever, with schools hosting…
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For decades, a committed conglomeration of environmental activists in Virginia and around the country has been working toward this moment: A presidential…