Karen Tricot Steward
As Content Development Director, Karen Tricot Steward oversees the creation of news and cultural programming and helps set standards and best practices. She manages content on our website and social media. Karen also coordinates the internship program and collaborates with journalism professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to teach students, helping fulfill public radio’s goal of serving the community by being a place of learning.
She started at KUAR in 2001 as a news reporter. She has also served as local host and news anchor for Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
For her news reporting, she has received several awards from the Arkansas Associated Press for stories on topics like the Little Rock mayoral race and Iraq War veterans in Arkansas. She also won a first place award from the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative reporting. Karen has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Phone: 501-569-8491
E-mail: karen@kuar.org
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Arkansas has carried out its final execution for the month of April. Eight death row inmates were scheduled to die in less than two weeks in Arkansas in...
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Governor Asa Hutchinson spoke to the media for an hour Thursday, saying he has visited with officials at the Arkansas Department of Correction and now...
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson is to talk with reporters Thursday morning about the pending executions of seven death row inmates. The governor scheduled the...
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Arkansas is set to conduct four double executions over ten days this month. That's already an unprecedented rate and in some states, like Oklahoma,...
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Controversy continues over Arkansas's rush to conduct four double executions in four days this month. One issue raising concern is the use of the common...
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On the program: -Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signs a law to eventually bring concealed firearms into college campuses, the state capitol, stadiums...
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Across the country, women in their 30s are having babies at the highest rate since the 1960s, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease...
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On this edition of KUAR's Week-In-Review podcast, we explore the state's decision to schedule execution dates for eight inmates over a period of ten...
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U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “Anyone who knows Jeff Sessions as I do...
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The president of the University of Arkansas System, Donald Bobbitt, says he is working with schools to gather information on the effect of President...