Hannah Saad

Assistant News Director @WKMS | Freelance Sports Photographer | @UofAlabama ‘21 | She/Her | previous: @PaducahSunNews @TheCrimsonWhite |

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The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled last week that, in order to deny open records requests, police departments must show that releasing the requested documents, images or videos would cause “actual harm” – even during active investigations. via @ByHannahSaad
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🎉🎉A student reporter at WKMS has won a National Edward R. Murrow Award, marking the first National Murrow win in the station's history! 🎉🎉
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If you were tuned into @MorningEdition earlier today, you heard our own @ByHannahSaad reporting on a group of Cherokee cyclists biking along the Trail of Tears. She caught up with the Remember The Removal riders when they stopped in western Kentucky.
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Totality arrived in Kentucky just minutes ago — and many were there to meet it from across the Commonwealth and farther afield. Here’s a few images from @ByHannahSaad in downtown Paducah this afternoon. Tell us how you took in today’s total solar eclipse.

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Expect the unexpected in Kentucky government (bringing a duck phone for use as a visual aid during a legislative committee meeting)
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Stewart Johnson became the first African-American scholarship basketball player at Murray State, playing during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The men's basketball team honored him by raising his jersey to the rafters.
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@RylandKY @WFPLNews @889WEKU @wkupublicradio @wkms Thank you for all of your work and mentorship in Kentucky! I’m so glad you’ll get to help shape state and local coverage across the nation!

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Kentucky Public Radio has put together a voter guide ahead of this year's general election.
Check out the candidates, learn about early voting options and find your local polling place, anywhere in the state:

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Several Union City, Tennessee residents were evacuated from their homes Friday after flash flooding conditions hit the region.
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Residents of some homes in Union City, TN are gathering up some of their belongings after flash flood water hit the city @wkms

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.@doperle and I are out in western Kentucky for @wkms taking a look at some of the scenes from flash flooding scenes around the region

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Communities across western Kentucky are still working to recover from the December 2021 tornado outbreak. Gov. Andy Beshear presented the keys to five new homes on Monday to Dawson Springs families who lost their residences in the disaster. @ByHannahSaad
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Tornado Warning including Murray KY, Dexter KY and Aurora KY until 2:30 PM CDT

[Derek Operle @doperle]

via @ByHannahSaad: Here's what we know about the storm damage across west Kentucky. There were a pair of reported tornadoes in McCracken and Christian counties, and two deaths confirmed by Gov. Andy Beshear, one each in Simpson and Edmonson. @wkms
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@wkupublicradio Thank you!

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@TTuckr @wkms Thank you!

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Personal News: This is my first week in my new role as a reporter and Assistant News Director at @wkms! Super excited to get to work with this team and share stories from around western Kentucky, Southern Illinois and Northwest Tennessee!

[Derek Operle @doperle]

Here’s @ByHannahSaad on her first day at @wkms reporting on the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development’s 2023 goal: 12,000 new to Ky. jobs from companies moving to or expanding in the state and a focus on rural job creation.
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Please feel free to reach out if there are any reporting opportunities in western Kentucky or opportunities for remote work that I can pass along to Levi!

[Levi Brandenburg @LeviBrandenbur3]

As of February 11th, after just shy of a year working at the Paducah Sun, my time has quickly run out. I was sadly caught up in the layoffs within the company and its parent, Paxton Media Group.

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@pamkoWI Thank you!

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Happy to share that my article for @PaducahSunNews sharing a story 80 years in the making to bring a fallen Pearl Harbor sailor’s remains home received a second place award for Best General News Story at the 2023 Kentucky Press Association convention!
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We competed against some of the biggest newspapers in Kentucky, and it’s an honor to have our work recognized. My colleague @SunWithSnow also received a First Place award for his work, and some of our fellow western KY journalists also received awards. https://t.co/hKSi8GYtK2