 Tom Rogers, News Director: Tom has been WILL's News Director since
1998, with responsibility over the station's newscasts and long-form news
programming. He also anchors AM 580's midday and All Things Considered
newscasts. Tom has covered a wide range of stories for AM 580, many
involving education, and he contributes reports and essays for the monthly
program Sidetrack. In his tenure Tom and WILL have won numerous Associated
Press and Public Radio News Directors Inc. Awards for news coverage.
A
native of LaPorte, Indiana, he was previously news director of radio
stations in LaPorte and Elkhart, Indiana. Tom graduated from Butler
University in Indianapolis, where he began his career helping manage the
college radio station and working as a part-time reporter in commercial
radio.
 Jim Meadows, Reporter: Jim's work as a reporter started in Peoria. During
the 1990s, he covered everything from the county board to the local arts
scene for public radio station WCBU. His first try at radio came in the
1970s, at his high school’s student-run ten-watt station in the Chicago
suburb of Park Forest. He graduated from Southern Illinois University.
Before settling on news, Jim tried his hand at several radio jobs, from
writing and producing commercials to working as a late-night jazz deejay.
Since coming to WILL-AM in February 2000, Jim has traveled to Philadelphia
to cover the Republican National Convention, and to Oklahoma to report on
the Miami Tribe’s land claim lawsuit.
 Jeff
Bossert, Reporter: An Illinois native, Jeff
joined the staff at WILL after 5 1/2 years as a 1-man news staff
at NPR member station WKNO in Memphis, Tennessee. His radio
career began in college, working as a student reporter at WIUM
in Macomb. After graduating from Western Illinois University,
Jeff was a reporter for commercial radio stations in Salem and
Jacksonville, Illinois. He returned to public radio in 1997,
anchoring morning news at WUIS in Springfield. His interviews in
recent years include baseball’s Sammy Sosa, actor Morgan
Freeman, and Rock N’ Roll pioneer Sam Phillips. Jeff has won
numerous awards from Tennessee’s Associated Press.
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