WPLN News Welcomes Paige Pfleger
• Nashville Public Radio’s 90.3 WPLN News has hired Paige Pfleger as the newsroom’s first Arts, Culture & Music Reporter.
“Having this beat in our newsroom will allow us to give Nashville and Middle Tennessee’s arts and music community the coverage it deserves,” said WPLN News Director Emily Siner. “Paige has the reporting and storytelling chops to show how the arts are a lens to understand broader civic and cultural issues.”
Ms. Pfleger (pictured) segues from Columbus, OH-based NPR affiliate WOSU News, where she has covered criminal justice and the addiction crisis since 2018. She was named Ohio’s Reporter of the Year by the Associated Press in 2019. Pfleger’s work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI’s The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY/Philadelphia, Vox and NPR.
Pfleger said, “I’ve long admired the work that Nashville Public Radio does: the station’s reporting, podcasts and community engagement efforts make it stand out from other NPR member stations across the country. I’m so excited to join this innovative team, and I’m looking forward to telling the stories of Nashville’s most influential industry.” Some of Pfleger’s new work on WPLN News will also be carried on WPLN’s recently launched new music discovery sister station, 91.ONE, WNXP.
