Athens News Matters

Athens News Matters: 10/30/2020

WUGA | By Chris Shupe,

Alexia Ridley, Martin Matheny

Published October 30, 2020 at 2:40 PM EDT

This week on Athens News Matters:

Keren Landman joins us to explain the criticism behind The Georgia Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard.
We are joined by Mark Ebell (Director of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UGA) to discuss the new RTO COVID-19 survey.
The panel discusses this week in news and politics
WUGA’s Jessica Wurst sits down with local independent bookstore owners to talk about the #BoxedOut campaign.
Dr. Byron Freeman (Director of the Georgia Museum of Natural History) gives insight into the unique attributes of the Joro Spider.
John Slights joins us to give his take on the new The Humms record “Vampire Hours”.
We sit down with David Saltz (Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at UGA) to discuss this year’s Spotlight on the Arts Festival at UGA.

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Chris Shupe

Chris Shupe was the Program Director of WUGA from 2014-2022. Shupe may be best known as The Athens King, a tribute to Elvis Presley, which often included an 8 piece show band! After two years as a part-time announcer, Chris Shupe joined WUGA full time as the station’s Morning Edition Host and Assistant Operations Director. He was later promoted to PD in 2014.

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Alexia Ridley

Alexia Ridley joined WUGA as Television and Radio News Anchor and Reporter in 2013. When WUGA TV concluded operations, she became the primary Reporter for WUGA Radio. Alexia came to Athens from Macon where she served as the News Director and show host for WGXA TV. She's a career journalist and Savannah native hailing from the University of Michigan. However, Alexia considers herself an honorary UGA DAWG!

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Martin Matheny

Martin Matheny was formerly WUGA's Program Director and a host and producer of our local news program 'Athens News Matters.' He started at WUGA in 2012 as a part-time classical music host and still hosts WUGA's longest-running local program 'Night Music' which was heard on WUGA and GPB Classical. He is now the Morning Edition Host for Delaware First Media.

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