
Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is the Station Manager / News & Public Affairs Director for WSIU Radio. Jeff has been in broadcast news for more than 20 years. After graduating with a degree in Radio-Television from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, he worked in commercial radio and television news in Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. before returning to WSIU Radio in 1997, as Morning Edition anchor/reporter. Jeff became News Director in 2001 and assumed Station Manager duties in 2005. Jeff and his wife are the proud soccer parents of two somewhat avid public radio listening teenagers. WSIU is operated by Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It signed on the air in September 1958.
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Governor Rauner's FY 2016 budget proposes reducing higher education funding by about one-third.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on an airplane crash that killed four members of a southern Illinois Family.
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Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees has named Randy Dunn as the university's next president.
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Saturday is George Harrison Day in Illinois. The honor commemorates the former Beatles' visit to southern Illinois in the fall of 1963.
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Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon has officially announced that she's running for Illinois comptroller, ending five months of uncertainty about which statewide office
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Southern Illinois state representative Mike Bost will be making a bid for Congress.