State of the Union special coverage from the BBC & NPR

KALW | By Matt Martin

Published January 29, 2018 at 3:55 PM PST

Tonight at 6pm Pacific Time, President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address.

KALW will begin special coverage at 5:30pm, when BBC journalists will present stories from Ohio and Kentucky, and share Americans’ report card on the first year of the Trump presidency.

At 6pm, we'll bring you the BBC's live coverage of the State of the Union address. Then, at 7pm, we'll turn to NPR for more analysis of Trump's speech and the Democratic Party response from Rep. Joe Kennedy.

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Matt Martin

Matt Martin was KALW’s general manager from 2006 through 2018. Under his leadership, KALW grew into one of the most productive and innovative stations in public radio. Programs launched at KALW during Matt’s tenure as GM include the award-winning local newsmagazine Crosscurrents, the design podcast 99% Invisible, and the Spanish-language narrative journalism program Radio Ambulante. He helped create the station’s Audio Academy, a year-long program aimed at developing new talents in public radio, and led the first broad-based strategic planning process in the station’s history.

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