Rachel Ward, Editor
@InnovationTrailEditor of the Innovation Trail.
Rachel Ward is based at WXXI in Rochester. She edits the multimedia work of the Innovation Trail crew and oversees the project's content and editorial vision.
Prior to joining the Innovation Trail, Ward reported on business and the economy in western New York with NPR's Economics Training Project, and hosted All Things Considered at WXXI-AM. Her reports have appeared locally and nationally.
Ward came to WXXI after earning a master's degree in telecommunications through Ohio University's public broadcasting fellowship program, where her thesis research centered on how public broadcasters are reacting to new technologies like podcasting.
Ward has also worked for the Association of Public Television Stations, and interned at WAMU-FM in Washington, DC. Her undergraduate degree in anthropology and English is from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Today in your Trail Mix:Officials are trying to combat concerns that a cluster of strange symptoms is related to an old toxic spill.New York home sales…
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Today in your Trail Mix:A museum in the Finger Lakes is closer to being a reality.The state hands out a few million bucks in the hopes of creating jobs.A…
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Today in your Trail Mix:Jobless rates are trending down over last year, but ticked up in December.The governor takes his billion-for-Buffalo on the road -…
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Today in your Trail Mix:Protestors deliver bread to the governor to protest fracking.Senator Schumer puts on the pressure to recruit a chip fabrication…
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Kodak may be struggling, but its legacy lives on in the Rochester community.Did you or a family member work for the company? Did you grow up in the shadow…
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Today in your Trail Mix:Budget predictions and prognostications.Schumer on high speed rail.The New York Times on Kodak.And drillers on local fracking…
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Eric Lee makes old computers new again. We met this high school student at BarCampRochester in October 2011, where he sat down with us in our listening…
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Today in your Trail Mix:Redeveloping Buffalo and Syracuse's waterfronts.Pa. fails to count all of its drilling operations.Erie County's executive stands…
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In your Trail Mix today:Buffalo's billion dollars requires some leg work.Another hydrofracking moratorium extension could be in the works.Kodak gets a…
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The final rousing lines have been delivered and the Egg is clearing out - so now's when the real work begins for the governor, to implement the programs…