Jonathan Huber
Operations Manager and Morning Edition HostJonathan Huber grew up in South Hutchinson, Kansas. He majored in communication arts at Bethel College in North Newton and had a weekly radio show on 88.1 KBCU featuring music recorded in live settings. His true public radio calling came much earlier: He was placed behind a microphone during a pledge drive at Radio Kansas, where his father hosted Morning Edition for 30 years. “Nobody could make the phones ring like a four-year-old reciting the telephone number!” he says.
Jon is now the local host and producer of NPR’s Morning Edition. His 8 a.m. newscast on March 20, 2020, received Second Place from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 2019, he received a Regional Edward R. Murrow award, an honorable mention from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters, and recognition from the Public Radio News Directors for his newscasts. His previous experience includes staff announcer and reporter at 88.1-FM WVPE in Elkhart, Indiana, where some of his more notable coverage included campaign stops in the 2016 primary election and a presidential visit.
When not working, Jon enjoys spending time with his wife and their nieces and nephews, smoking meat, homebrewing beer and cider, acquiring and listening to vinyl records, planning the next vacation, dreaming of piloting aircraft and following mediocre sports teams like the Minnesota Twins and the German soccer club 1899 Hoffenheim.
Jon can be reached by email at huber@kmuw.org.
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On "The Range" this week, 25 years after 9/11, KMUW's Jonathan Huber talks with a former teacher about how that day unfolded in a Kansas classroom. -
On Saturday, August 29, KMUW aired “Walnut Valley Festival: The Early Years.” -
Listeners had this to say…
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Are you needing that extra push to check out your first Walnut Valley Festival? KMUW's Jonathan Huber and Bing Futch talk about what makes the festival so special. -
It's how people should relate to each other throughout the year, the longtime festival performer tells KMUW's Jonathan Huber. -
Folk musician and radio host Nick Forster discusses performing at the festival in the 1970s and the unparalleled feel of the Pecan Grove with KMUW's Jonathan Huber. -
It's how people should relate to each other throughout the year, the longtime festival performer tells KMUW's Jonathan Huber.
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Are you needing that extra push to check out your first Walnut Valley Festival? KMUW's Jonathan Huber and Bing Futch talk about what makes the festival so special.
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Two hours of music and interviews, featuring 2026 Walnut Valley Festival Ambassador Bing Futch, John McCutcheon, and Nick Forster (of Hot Rize and host of eTown). Sets include Bryan Bowers from 1978, Wry Straw from 1980, and Hot Rize also from 1980.
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SCUBA diving isn’t an activity you would normally associate with land-locked Kansas. But here in Wichita, there is an active diving community.
