Jeff St. Clair
Midday HostExpertise: Science reporting, health and medicine, energy, environment, economy, business, politics and headline news
Education: University of Akron - Bachelor of Science, chemistry
Kent State University - Master of Arts, media management
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Towner's Woods, Kent
Experience:
Jeff St. Clair is an award-winning science reporter whose work has appeared on WKSU and NPR. With more than 20 years of experience in public radio, he's been a folk and classical music host, fund-drive producer, local “Morning Edition” host, “All Things Considered” host, and host of midday programs. He's won national and region awards for best news writing, health coverage and use of sound.
Highlights:
- 2013-2022, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Health care/Science/Medical Reporting
- 2023, Press Club of Cleveland & Associated Press Media Editors, Use of Sound, “Through social media, this Kent musician documents life with chronic fatigue syndrome”
- 2021, Public Media Journalists Association, Second Place Audio Scripting, “COVID Longhaulers Endure Long Wait for Recognition and Treatment”
- 2017 & 2019, Press Club of Cleveland, Best News Writing
- 2015, Edward R. Murrow regional award, Radio Television Digital News Association, Sports Reporting, “Sports Training Can Stem the Epidemic of Knee Injuries in Girls”
Why trust Ideastream Public Media?
The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.
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The Cleveland-based biomedical business incubator Bioenterprise will be dissolved and taken over by Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic, and University Hospitals.
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Kent State's Brain Health Research Institute, NEOMED and other partners combine conversations on neuroscience with local craft beer in the relaunched science series.
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Ideastream Public Media's Jeff St. Clair talks with Pennsylvania farmer and journalist Rachel Wagoner to get an update on life on a livestock farm not from the site after last month's toxic train disaster.
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Brains on Tap is a collaboration between Kent State University's Brain Health Research Institute and the NEO Society for Neuroscience. It's an informal gathering where neuroscience is paired with free flowing, delicious beer!
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Nowhere is the strain of a tight labor market on tech firms more apparent than in the Mahoning Valley, which has seen generations of population loss.
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The new field of political neuroscience is revealing fundamental differences in the way conservatives and liberals are wired.
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Around 2 million Americans suffer from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a poorly understood disease with few treatment options or research dollars.
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The Ghost Army was the military's experimental unit which invented the modern art of deceptive warfare.
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A California-based company is building airships that will deliver humanitarian aid to disaster zones around the world.
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Scientists thought that humans with stone weapons may have caused the disappearance of Ice Age beasts like woolly mammoths. New research shows that stones were no match for mammoths' hair and hide.