Samantha McIntosh
Talk Show ProducerSamantha McIntosh is a talk show producer at Iowa Public Radio. Prior to IPR, Samantha worked as a reporter for radio stations in southeast and west central Iowa under M&H Broadcasting, and before that she was a weekend music host for GO 96.3 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Samantha earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Mass Communications – Broadcasting and Communication Studies from St. Cloud State University. She’s an Iowa native who loves collecting vinyl and pop culture knowledge, going on bike rides, and skunking opponents in cribbage.
You can reach her at smcintosh@iowapublicradio.org
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Residential areas marked red — starting in the 1930s — were deemed places of high-risk investment. The impacts of this practice, called redlining, persist today and even extend to the tree canopy.
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Journalists aren't superheroes - but without good, ethical journalists doing their best, we would be lost.
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Growing up in a deeply evangelical Midwest family, NPR's Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him and not question the faith.
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Iowa's six-week abortion ban cleared a legislative hurdle this week, though it's still blocked until the state supreme court rules on an appeal.
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Canada geese, white-tailed deer, wild turkey - these are all species that were once rare in Iowa, but now are seemingly everywhere.
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A former staff member of the Des Moines Public Library's North Side branch recently filed a lawsuit against the city and library system, alleging the library's policies, procedures and staff training are inadequate for addressing inappropriate patron behavior.
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In 1869, Iowa was directly in the path of a total solar eclipse.
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Iowa has had the third largest total of violent tornadoes since 1950, behind Oklahoma and Texas.
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There’s a mix of red and blue politics across the Midwest. Statehouse journalists share updates on new and proposed legislation in neighboring states.
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Erika Schwartz was born in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary in 1944, one day before Nazis sealed it off. Against all odds she and her mother survived the Holocaust, eventually moving to the United States.
