Pat Duggins is the News Director at various NPR affiliates including WAMU 88.5 and KSJD Dry Land Community Radio. He specializes in themes related to aviation and aerospace, regional interest and world news, as well as sports, covering topics such as the International Space Station, NASA, and competitive sports across North America and Latin America. Pat's work has been featured in NPR, WAMU 88.5, and several other prominent radio stations.
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Pat Duggins' coverage focuses heavily on local government and politics, with a significant portion dedicated to sports. He also covers breaking news, evolving stories, legal policy regulation, and government announcements related to Alabama.
Given the strong emphasis on local content related to Alabama and Tuscaloosa specifically, Pat is likely most interested in pitches that involve exclusive insights or interviews with key figures in these areas. This could include local politicians, community leaders involved in sports events or issues affecting the region.
For national topics such as the NFL Draft or GOP Debate coverage outside of Alabama but still relevant to his audience's interests might catch his attention. However, it's important for sources reaching out from other states to tie their pitch back to how it impacts Alabamians specifically.
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By: Pat Duggins
Civil rights advocates on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, teeing up a potential new test of state-sponsored religious expression in classrooms. This could have an impact in Alabama, where the state passed a similar measure back in April, which was signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey.
Explosions rocked an Ohio industrial recycling business, sparking a large fire that drew a swarm of emergency responders. Two workers were unaccounted for and a few others had minor injuries, officials said. The owner of the facility is based in Brent, Alabama. It offers textile reconditioning and industrial recycling services aimed at reducing waste and saving money, according to its website. It was founded in Alabama in 1977 and has operations in Brent and Toledo. The AP left a phone message for Brent Industries.
UAB athletic director Mark Ingram is leaving after 11 years, with his departure announced Tuesday by the university as an agreement to “part ways.” Andy Kennedy, the men's basketball coach, will be UAB's interim athletic director during the search for Ingram's replacement.
The Crimson Tide look to make back-to-back appearances in the College Football Playoff under third-year coach Kalen DeBoer and potentially end the Southeastern Conference's three-year national championship drought. The powerhouse league hasn't even made the title game since Georgia won consecutive championships in 2022-23.
By: Pat Duggins
Former University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears won his defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. Multiple published reports, including the Times, says a jury awarded the walk on athlete of over $9 million dollars following a trial in the aftermath of the murder of a Birmingham woman.
By: Pat Duggins
Sources are telling multiple news outlets that Alabama sophomore Keelon Russell will be the starting quarterback when the Crimson Tide takes on the East Carolina Pirates at Bryant Denny Stadium on September fifth. Senior Austin Mack was the other possible choice as Alabama gears up for the season. Overall, the Tide's path toward a possible CFP Championship could hinge on what happens on October tenth on Nick Saban Field. The Associated Press is listing Alabama's home game against Georgia as one of several events to watch.
By: Pat Duggins
Canada struck back at the United States on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment, as the trade war between the once-friendly neighbors escalated sharply. Paper exports from the U.S. are included, and that might be where Alabama could be hurt.
By: Pat Duggins
Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died. She was 80. Children in all sixty seven counties of Alabama were able to get books for free through Parton’s “Imagination Library.”
By: Pat Duggins
Alabama Shakes has returned with the band's first album in 11 years and it turns out that craft beer played a big part in the reunion. Not drinking it, exactly. Singer and guitarist Brittany Howard was chilling following her second solo album, 2024's “What Now,” when she was contacted by Bo Hicks, the co-founder of the Druid City Brewing Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
By: Pat Duggins
Thousands of protesters are expected on the National Mall on Friday for a rally in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elections, following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that civil rights groups have condemned as detrimental to Black Americans. Alabama's upcoming election in District two appears at the epicenter of today's demonstration.
