HARD NEWS
In Depth report/Continuing Coverage - Police and race relations, part on an ongoing pattern of coverage over two years. GLT deconstructs police response to a report of a fight at Denny’s Restaurant in Bloomington in advance of a community meeting on the subject. 1/22 1:32 Judy Valente
Interview - French Graphic Novelist and Cartoonist Clement Baloup about the loss of his friends and mentors at Charlie Hebdo. One of his cartoon responses to the terrorist slaughter went viral. 3/30 1:11 Charlie Schlenker
Series - Section of one part of a series on Transgendered people in Bloomington Normal. 2/10 1:43 Judy Valente
In Depth Report - Minority and Economic Disparity of the Bloomington Bookmobile Program. WGLT broke this story based on a service map that graphically showed the holes. Initial and follow up GLT stories plus other media outlets coverage, led to more stops on the underprivileged west side of town. Some months later, as the story lingered, the Library Director abruptly retired. 4/21 3:23 Charlie Schlenker
In Depth Report - Section of an 11 minute report on Father Jeff Windy, a Bloomington Priest who is serving a parish in spite of his federal drug conviction for conspiracy to make and produce the date rape drug GHB. At this writing, this remains a WGLT exclusive 9/16 2:45 Judy Valente
Interview - Paris terror attacks reaction from Ryan Weisheit, a Bloomington Normal native who was in Paris and talked with GLT via Skype for Iphone from a Paris street corner. He’s a saxophonist with the retro jazz group Sweet Megg and the Wayfarers. Interview snippet. 11/17 :56 Charlie Schlenker
In Depth Report - Proliferating court costs and how those hurt those at the bottom of the economic spectrum 8/6 1:17 Judy Valente
Interview - Mitsubishi Motors ended production at its plant in Normal and laid off about 1,200 employees. GLT coverage included repeated interviews with workers as they grappled with the announcement, news of the severance, the shutdown, and the struggle to reinvent themselves. Here are segments of two recorded in late November with Jerry Harcharik and Kent Ferguson, both long time workers. 11/18 and 24. 2:45 Charlie Schlenker
Interview - Retired Federal Judge Michael McCuskey who stepped down from the federal bench and immediately took a job as a local circuit judge. McCuskey railed against mandatory minimum sentences in federal court and the lack of discretion that he believes prevents justice in many cases at that level. 1/27 :35 Charlie Schlenker
In Depth report - The “Labyrinth” program to help offenders transition from prison back into society in Bloomington-Normal. 1:28 4/18 Jim Browne
Interview – The hidden economy. Bloomington Normal has the lowest Metro area unemployment rate in the state. But, that’s not the entire picture. Coverage of pawn shops as mirrors of the economy. Kathy and Ed Pierce owners of Monster Pawn in Bloomington, Normal, and Springfield. 12/09 2:15 Charlie Schlenker
FEATURES AND CULTURAL COVERAGE
Feature - The Q Brothers – Hip Hop Shakespeare 6/25 :29 Laura Kennedy
Feature - Audio tour of Nachusa grasslands and the bison restoration project including the first baby bison born in Illinois in more than 150 years. 6/10 :59 Jim Browne
Produced interview with prominent folk singer Rhiannon Giddens before her concert in Bloomington 9/15 1:04 Bruce Bergethon
Feature - The game of Quidditch being played in Bloomington-Normal 4/7 :48 Laura Kennedy
Produced interview - Musician Pokey LaFarge, a home town boy gone national. 4/7 1:36 Bruce Bergethon
Feature - “The Way Down Wanderers” a new regional folk rock band. 1/31 :57 Jon Norton
NEWSCAST
6:06p.m. 5/27/15 4:00 Charlie Schlenker
