Tyler Thompson
Former ReporterTyler Thompson was a reporter and on-air host for 89.7 NPR News. Thompson, originally from northeast Ohio, has spent the last three years working as a Morning Edition host and reporter at NPR member station KDLG Public Radio and reporter at the Bristol Bay Times Newspaper in Dillingham, Alaska.
Thompson graduated from Kent State University with a degree in Journalism and Multimedia.
During his time in Alaska, he was a regular contributor to Alaska Public Media statewide news, Alaska News Nightly, and KTOO state capital news network. He also published the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report, an annual summer fish report that provides contextual statistics, stories and industry perspectives for the largest salmon fishery in the world.
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The Franklin County Commissioners and sheriff’s office will pay a deputy over $170,000 to settle a lawsuit for alleged race discrimination. The deputy was fired and then re-instated after an incident at a Kroger grocery store. -
Columbus' Issue 19 would ban self-dealing ballot issues and extend signature gathering for organizers. -
Business & EconomyCentral Ohio is expected to keep growing at an even-faster pace as big projects like Intel’s semiconductor plants in Licking County come online. -
The Hilton Hotel in Downtown Columbus has opened its new tower making it the largest hotel in Ohio. The tower adds 458 new rooms, 50,000 square-feet of meeting space, and four restaurants. -
Intel Corporation intends to lay off thousands of workers amid an expected drop of billions in sales and revenue. -
A study from Ohio State's Drug Enforcement Policy Center found that Black residents in Columbus have been unequally charged with misdemeanor possession over the last two decades. -
Ohio State's College of Medicine is ramping up efforts to increase diversity in simulation-based clinical training by purchasing equipment to represent different races, genders, and ages. -
The Downtown Columbus Development Corporation has set ambitious goals for growth in Columbus. It wants to nearly quadruple the number of residents downtown, increase the workforce and create more green space and pedestrian-friendly ways to get around the area all by 2040. -
The Community Information Exchange will help people in poverty contact large non-profits faster to better fit their needs. -
The Pontifical College Josephinum on Columbus’ north side is the Vatican’s only seminary in the U.S. But it could lose its two accreditations if it doesn’t address a series of problems.
