Journalist and podcast host to speak at WKU on Thursday
Published 1:38 pm Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Josie Duffy Rice (Submitted)
Western Kentucky University’s School of Media and Communication and the John B. Gaines family are hosting an event on Thursday featuring journalist, law school graduate, writer and podcast host Josie Duffy Rice.
“Telling the Untold Story: Investigating the U.S. Criminal Justice System” will be held at 6 p.m. at the Jody Richards Hall auditorium.
Rice’s presentation will examine historical injustices and current challenges facing our prosecutorial and prison systems today, according to information from a news release.
The audience will learn about the power and limit of investigative journalism in reforming corrupt systems.
Rice, whose work focuses on prisons, prosecutors and other criminal justice issues, has had her writing featured in “The New York Times,” “Vanity Fair,” “The New Yorker,” “The Atlantic” and “Slate,” among others.
She was the host, co-writer and co-executive producer of the Peabody-nominated podcast “Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children,” which examines a state-run reform school for Black youth in Alabama, with a dark history of abuse.
The podcast was named as one of the top three podcasts of 2023 by “The New Yorker” and was called one of the year’s best podcasts by “New York Magazine.”
I am originally from Owensboro and graduated from Owensboro High School. In 1994, I received a degree in print journalism from Murray State University. I have lived in Bowling Green and have worked at the paper since I graduated.
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