About the program
Each week, producers from KBIA 91.3 FM select an issue that affects people like you in mid-Missouri. Then we line up a group of panelists who can speak intelligently about that topic, and bring them into the studio for a live discussion every Monday at 2 p.m. While the video stream and accompanying chat take place online, the audio is broadcast on KBIA/91.3 FM. The show also airs throughout the week on public access cable channel CAT-TV and on MediaCom's local cable channel in mid-Missouri.
Intersection is a joint project of NPR-member station KBIA/91.3 FM and the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Each week, producers from KBIA 91.3 FM select an issue that affects people like you in mid-Missouri. Then we line up a group of panelists who can speak intelligently about that topic, and bring them into the studio for a live discussion every Monday at 2 p.m. While the video stream and accompanying chat take place online, the audio is broadcast on KBIA/91.3 FM. The show also airs throughout the week on public access cable channel CAT-TV and on MediaCom's local cable channel in mid-Missouri.
Intersection is a joint project of NPR-member station KBIA/91.3 FM and the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Host/Producer
REUBEN STERN is an editor in the Futures Lab of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He also teaches courses at MU in the convergence journalism area. Reuben formerly served as managing editor of the Columbia Missourian. He attended the Missouri School of Journalism as an undergrad in the early 1990s and then went off to work for newspapers in Atlanta, Budapest and his hometown of Los Angeles before resettling in Columbia in 2002.
Executive Producer
JANET SAIDI is an assistant professor of radio-television journalism and news director at KBIA, one of the most successful NPR affiliates in the country. After working for 10 years as a writer and producer, she came to KBIA in 2006 from California, where she was the associate producer for the four-hour series “Remaking American Medicine,” broadcast nationally on PBS in October 2006. Saidi also co-produced and co-hosted a nightly culture magazine on San Diego’s NPR-affiliate station for three years. She has written for the Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Times and wrote a regular column, “Magazine Scene,” about the magazine industry for the Books section of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Saidi spent nearly a decade living in England, where she earned a master’s degree in literature from University College, London.
Director
TRAVIS McMILLEN is the video producer for the Futures Lab, located on the lower level of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. As video producer, McMillen directs and produces regular and occasional programming from RJI’s own production studio, including KBIA-FM’s Views of the News, Global Journalist and Radio Friends with Paul Pepper. He is a Columbia native who started working at KOMU-TV, the University of Missouri’s NBC affiliate, at the age of 16. At 18 McMillen became the audio operator for Pepper and Friends, a community variety and talk show that aired on KOMU for 27 years. It was a position he held for almost 10 years. Aside from audio, McMillen’s duties on the show included field segment videographer and editor and, from 2001-2007, primary fill-in director. McMillen also directed KOMU’s daily two-hour morning newscast from 2001-2008. He is married to Jennifer, whom he met at KOMU. She currently produces the CW News at Nine for the station. They have three boys.
