Brownsmead, Oregon resident Joanne Rideout has been chosen as the new general manager at Coast Community Radio. The board of directors for the Tillicum Foundation, owner and operator of KMUN, KTCP and KCPB spent months interviewing candidates hailing from Florida to Texas to Guam.
Joanne Rideout's professional background includes experience in the fields of education, journalism and coop management. She has been a journalist, working for Associated Press and writing for national magazines and other publications. She spent more than a decade teaching and writing on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona and is the former editor of the Hopi Tribal newspaper, Tutuveni.
For a number of years she lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and served on the management team of Gentle Strength Cooperative, the first natural foods co-op in the Phoenix Valley.
She began volunteering at KMUN shortly after moving to Brownsmead in 2002, starting out as a reader on Bedtime Stories. Rideout later went on to host weekday folk shows and other programming, and was later hired by former station manager Lisa Smith as news host and reporter for the station. During that time, she produced radio stories for KMUN, the Northwest News Network and NPR. Rideout left employment with KMUN in 2006 and took a job as staff reporter for the Coast River Business Journal in Astoria. Like many area residents, she became a ham radio operator in the aftermath of the 2007 Great Coastal Gale.
Currently, Rideout produces three shows for KMUN as a volunteer: The Ship Report, a Senior Moment, and Animal Talk, and has occasionally subbed as news host for All Things Considered.
Rideout expects to commence her new duties on or around October 11th.
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