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Jennifer Robinson
Web Producer
Jen is a web producer at KPBS, responsible for program promotion, online membership-related activities, and is the editor of the KPBS community calendar. Jen has worked at KPBS since 2000. She is originally from Las Vegas and attended the UNLV.
Recent Stories by Jennifer Robinson
FINDING YOUR ROOTS: Secrets & Lies (New!)
- Jan. 22
- By Jennifer Robinson
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actors Sigourney Weaver, Justina Machado and Amy Ryan unearth surprising revelations about their family histories, forever altering how they see themselves.
INDEPENDENT LENS: The First Rainbow Coalition
- Jan. 22
- By Jennifer Robinson
In 1969, Chicago community-based groups formed alliances across lines of race and ethnicity to confront issues like police brutality and substandard housing. Hear the movement's little-known story through archival footage and interviews with members.
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: Bonanzaville - Hour 1
- Jan. 22
- By Jennifer Robinson
Travel with ANTIQUES ROADSHOW to Bonanzaville in West Fargo for the biggest find of the season, and watch as the owner is literally floored by the $500,000-$700,000 appraisal of his treasure.
RICK STEVES' EUROPE: Salzburg And Surroundings
- Jan. 22
- By Jennifer Robinson
The birthplace of Mozart — and everyone's "Sound of Music" fantasies — Salzburg is a Baroque jewel of a town. It's also the springboard for lots of alpine fun — from thrilling summer bobsledding, to idyllic boat rides in the Salzkammergut lake district, to exploring the delightful romantic town of Hallstatt.
CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL’S MILK STREET TELEVISION: Season 3: Enchiladas And Molletes
- Jan. 22
- By Jennifer Robinson
Christopher Kimball visits a Oaxacan open-air market to eat local favorites. He visits the market's resident Frida Kahlo impersonator, Beatriz Vazquez, who cooks him her specialty, Enchiladas Verdes. Later in the market, he tastes Molletes, a delicious open-faced sandwich.
SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS: Beware The Ides Of March
- Jan. 22
- By Jennifer Robinson
Frank and Lu investigate a series of deadly accidents on a psychic television program hosted by two warring sisters.
LIVE AT THE BELLY UP: Samantha Fish (New Season Premiere)
- Jan. 22
- By Jennifer Robinson
The new season premiere features Samantha Fish, who ranks among the top contemporary blues guitarist performers, known for her powerful vocals that can wring the soul out of a ballad and belt out a rocker with roof-shaking force.
Voice Of America: Lowell Thomas And The Rise Of Broadcast News
- Jan. 21
- By Jennifer Robinson
As host of the first national Radio Newscast carried on both NBC and CBS, as well as the Fox Movietone newsreels shown in every movie theater, Lowell Thomas invented what we now call traditional journalism and dominated American journalism in the 1930s and 1940s as no one else has before or since.
FRONTLINE: Taliban Country And Luanda Leaks
- Jan. 21
- By Jennifer Robinson
In a two-part hour, FRONTLINE goes on the ground in Afghanistan with exclusive access to ISIS, the Taliban and Its top peace negotiator; and presents an investigation with ICIJ of Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos.
SECRETS OF THE DEAD: Bombing Auschwitz
- Jan. 16
- By Jennifer Robinson
Join historians, survivors and experts as they consider one of the great moral dilemmas of the 20th century. Should the Allies have risked killing Auschwitz prisoners and bombed the camp to stop future atrocities?