Rickey Bevington
News Director
Department: Radio
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Twitter: @rickeybevington
As GPB's News Director of TV, Radio & Digital, Rickey oversees news and public affairs programming across the nation's third-largest public television market, 16 radio stations, www.gpb.org and social media platforms. Her media career spans cable entertainment at Sundance Channel and Showtime Networks, local TV news at WFSB-TV 3 (CBS) in Hartford, Conn., publishing with Fodor's Travel and the Hartford Courant, and reporting for NPR and PBS. Rickey's awards and nominations include the Atlanta Press Club's “Journalist of the Year,” Southeastern Emmy Awards, Associated Press, and Society of Professional Journalists. Passionate about history, Rickey co-hosts GPB-TV's "Georgia Traveler" specializing in historical sites and heritage tourism. She is an active alumna of L.E.A.D. Atlanta and serves as board Chairman of the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art.
Recent News Articles
February 8, 2011 - 6:09pm
Creditors have given the owners of Reynolds Plantation an April deadline to come up with 30-million dollars. Now officials with the exclusive vacation community on Lake Oconee will sell golf courses...
February 2, 2011 - 3:33pm
Atlanta-based shipping giant United Parcel Service says it plans to turn last year’s success into record earnings per share in 2011.
In 2010, earnings improved to $3.6 billion dollars and revenue was...
February 1, 2011 - 5:31pm
Historic preservation brings in jobs and tax revenue to communities across the state, according to a new report. It has prompted the Department of Natural Resources to revive efforts to demonstrate...
January 31, 2011 - 5:13pm
Earlier this month an independent operator in Pennsylvania agreed to donate sandwiches and brownies to two biblically-based video seminars sponsored by the Pennsylvania Marriage Institute.
The...
January 27, 2011 - 5:43pm
The Georgia Music Hall of Fame’s future is uncertain after its authority board failed to approve a plan for the museum Wednesday.
Macon is vying to keep the hall, while Athens, Dunwoody and Woodstock...
Recent Blog Posts
News Muse - August 20, 2012 - 4:22pm
An exciting project is underway in Macon that demonstrates how serious GPB is about telling local stories for every Georgia community. I also think of it as a test case for the future of local news...
Georgia Traveler - October 20, 2011 - 11:25am
Hey Georgia Travelers! Check out all the interesting Georgia places to get you and your family into the Halloween spirit!
ATLANTA, October 20, 2011 – With Halloween just around the corner, Georgia...
Georgia Traveler - October 2, 2011 - 1:34pm
We had a great shoot Saturday at the 43rs Annual Great Locomotive Chase Festival in historic downtown Adairsville. We visited the Adairsville Rail Depot Age of Steam Museum, watched the parade, ate...
Georgia Traveler - September 27, 2011 - 1:36pm
Hey Georgia Travelers! You can take exploring Georgia to a whole new level with your mobile device. Check out these details ...
Georgia Tourism, a division of the Georgia Department of Economic...
Georgia Traveler - September 2, 2011 - 5:30pm
Hey Georgia Travelers! We're having a ball traveling all over the state shooting and producing stories for our upcoming season of the show. Tune in for my visits to Chickamauga Battlefield,...
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