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
July 29, 2009 - 8:33am
Cable television network CNBC ranks Georgia workers among the top in the nation according to their America's Top States for Business '09 study.
But on Tuesday experts in the state said it's not...
July 28, 2009 - 10:43am
Tonight on All Things Considered from 4 - 6:30 PM.
Top economic forecasters assess Georgia's midyear economic status. Colleges plan furloughs. Plus, meet teachers saving money by raising their own...
July 22, 2009 - 2:31pm
Why didn’t more people predict the Wall Street meltdown?
What’s more, why didn’t business and finance reporters – the people paid to explain Wall Street to the rest of us – see it coming?
When...
July 22, 2009 - 10:38am
Tonight on All Things Considered.
Georgia's utility regulators head to Washington to fight cap and trade climate legislation. Plus, Democrats showdown with Republicans trying to attach a gun...
July 21, 2009 - 11:59am
Tonight on All Things Considered.
Governor Sonny Perdue gives us the latest on two of Georgia's biggest woes -- water and the state budget. Plus, details on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's assessment...
Recent Blog Posts
Georgia Traveler - November 22, 2010 - 3:17pm
The Georgia Historical Society Monday installed a new Civil War marker in the southwest Georgia town of Quitman.
The plaque commemorates a failed slave revolt in the town near the Florida border....
Georgia Traveler - October 21, 2010 - 2:23pm
On Georgia Traveler, we are gearing up for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War next year by visiting important and interesting Georgia sites all season long. But between episodes, you can visit...
Georgia Traveler - October 12, 2010 - 6:26pm
Georgia Traveler is highlighting Georgia's Civil War sites this season. It's in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of the war next year.
A marker now commemorates the only site in Georgia...
Georgia Traveler - July 26, 2010 - 6:00pm
We had a (hot) but rewarding shoot on Saturday in Kirkwood/East Atlanta Village re-tracing the steps of the July 1864 Battle of Atlanta. It's the annual B*ATL Festival marking the Battle of Atlanta...
Georgia Traveler - July 9, 2010 - 2:21pm
We scouted our shoot location Thursday at the Roswell Mills. The city has done an excellent job creating safe, accessible pathways so people can explore the ruins of the 1839 cotton mill burned by...
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