Geoffrey Riley
Jefferson Exchange Host | ProducerGeoffrey Riley is a long-time broadcaster in the Rogue Valley, working in both radio and television. Geoff's first exposure to JPR came as a dedicated listener, then as a back-up host in 2000. He's hosted the Jefferson Exchange full-time since 2009.
Geoff values the time the Jefferson Exchange has each day to explore the issues that are important to citizens of our region with depth and detail.
Geoff is a New York native, and has done stints in broadcast news in Missouri, Alabama, and Wisconsin before his arrival in Oregon. He's a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
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More people need higher education in today's workforce, and higher education is expensive. Those two issues get little to no argument, but what now?… -
Surprise! People actually stay at jobs a little longer now than they did 30 years ago. But 4.6 years is still not a career; people used to switch careers… -
Don't get confused by the use of the term "talent assessment" in relation to Oregon higher education; it's not about singing and dancing or anything like… -
Dig in the ground in places where people live and hang out, and you're going to find evidence of people from the past. That's why any excavation on public… -
Alice Tallmadge lost a beloved niece to suicide nearly three decades ago. It was at the height of the controversy over "recovered memories," which often… -
After the Grove of Titans of redwood trees was identified near Jedediah Smith State Park in 1998, car traffic on nearby roads increased dramatically, as… -
Whether people are arrested in Ashland or Butte Falls, they'll be booked into the same lockup: the Jackson County Jail. The jail in Medford was built at a… -
You don't need to snorkel at a coral reef to see evidence of climate change. Rising sea levels, longer droughts, worse wildfires all appear to have… -
Suicide rates are higher in rural areas than urban in the United States, by a lot. The mental healthcare community has turned a lot of attention to rural… -
Last season set a record at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, and not a good one. For the first time since the festival opened in the 60s, there was not… -
Marc Freedman is not into plastic surgery, nutritional supplements, or the Singularity. He's about bridging the generational divide in ways that benefit… -
If the rush into the Christmas shopping season is not your thing, there are alternatives to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Like Giving Tuesday, which…
