Jeff Ferrell
News Director/ProducerOriginally from the Pacific Northwest, and a graduate of the University of Washington, Jeff began his on-air broadcasting career 33 years ago in the Black Hills of South Dakota as a general assignment reporter.
Jeff has worked in several regions of the country, from the Great Plains to the Midwest… and from the northeast to the southwest, before coming to Shreveport back in 2000 with his wife and four kids, where they have lived ever since.
Throughout his more than three decades of news reporting, Jeff has covered everything from the crack cocaine epidemic of the early ‘90s outside Chicago, to prolonged droughts in Oklahoma and paralyzing blizzards in Pennsylvania… and from devastating gulf coast hurricanes to severe flooding. Jeff graduated with a master’s degree in history from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in March, and had just entered into a doctoral program until Red River Radio came calling, with a great opportunity to serve as news director at the public radio network.
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Governor Greg Abbott announced the addition of flood warning systems to the special session agenda in the days following the July 4 deadly flash flooding in Texas Hill Country. -
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry hosted a meeting aimed at making changes to the federal disaster response agency. -
Arkansas has the second lowest participation rate in the country for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), despite ranking last in food security. -
Asian needle ants have been linked to severe allergic reactions, including intense pain, hives, redness and even anaphylaxis. -
Much of the devastation is centered around Kerr County along the Guadalupe River in South-Central Texas, in a region known as "Flash Flood Alley." -
Dozens are dead including children and several remain missing, many of them campers, following catastrophic holiday flooding. -
According to a recent report, 58% of small business owners reported hiring or trying to hire in June, and 86% of those owners reported few or no qualified applicants for their vacancies. -
Soybean exports have fallen by roughly half from January to April of this year according to industry leaders. -
Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says voters are especially turned off by what he characterized as the bickering between Gov. Jeff Landry and Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple. -
Arkansas State Senator Fred Love, D-Little Rock, announced his intention to run, saying he felt compelled to jump into the race to give voice and representation to the many disaffected citizens.
