Jeff Williams

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Station Manager/News Director

Jeff Williams is the Station Manager / News & Public Affairs Director for WSIU Radio.   Jeff is a native of southern Illinois and 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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Energy & Environment
4:55 pm
Mon June 17, 2013

Governor Signs Hydraulic Fracturing Legislation

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artist rendering of the hydraulic fracturing process

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed into law what's touted as the nation's toughest regulations on hydraulic fracturing.

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Coal
2:30 pm
Mon June 17, 2013

UMWA Miners & Supporters Rally in St. Louis

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United Mine Workers and Supporters rally against Peabody Energy earlier this year in St. Louis

More than a thousand United Mine Workers of America members were back in St. Louis Monday, the latest in a series of protests against Peabody Energy and its handling of their  retirement and health care benefits.

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SIU
11:48 am
Tue June 11, 2013

Morning Conversation: SIUC Chancellor Rita Cheng (6/11/13)

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SIUC Chancellor Rita Cheng

Southern Illinois University Carbondale Chancellor Rita Cheng joins WSIU Radio's Jeff Williams for this edition of Morning Conversation.

Chancellor Cheng discusses the current budget situation as well as some organizational changes in Research and the Graduate School,  some new summer initiatives, and enrollment.

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WSIU News Updates
11:32 am
Tue June 11, 2013

WSIU News Update (7:04 am)

WSIU Radio's Jeff Williams reports the latest local and state news.

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WSIU News Update
5:54 pm
Mon June 10, 2013

WSIU News Update (3:29 pm)

WSIU Radio's Jeff Williams reports the latest local and state news along with the region's weather.

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