Jesse King
Hudson Valley Bureau Chief/Host, 51%Jesse King is the host of WAMC's national program on women's issues, "51%" and the station's bureau chief in the Hudson Valley. She has also produced episodes of the WAMC podcast "A New York Minute In History."
A graduate of SUNY Oneonta, King first joined the WAMC newsroom as an intern in September 2018. She grew up an avid writer and radio-nerd in Apalachin, New York, and spent much of her college years managing WONY 90.9 FM, contributing to the student-run podcast, "Oneonta Voices," and interning with Phoenix FM in Dublin, Ireland. She holds a B.A. in Music Industry and Mass Communications, and plays the fiddle in her free time.
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After a devastating roof collapse last year, Boscobel House and Gardens is reopening its historic house for tours this weekend — but the construction is far from over. -
On this week's 51%, actor and comedian Alison Larkin explores how grief encouraged her to live (and love) more fully in her new memoir Grief…A Comedy. We also take a drive up to Staatsburg, New York, to speak with the artists behind the “Unearthing the Light” reflecting on loss, healing, and the former “New York Training School for Girls.” WAMC’s Josh Landes also speaks with some of the survivors of a sex abuse scandal at an all-girls boarding school in western Massachusetts, who have just had their stories corroborated by an independent investigation. -
Before it became a prison for men, Hudson Correctional Facility spent decades as the Women’s House of Refuge and the reformatory New York Training School for Girls. A new art exhibit in Staatsburg, New York, continues a project to remember the lives lived and lost at the site, and a little-known cemetery on its campus. -
Supporters of a Rhinebeck man detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement say he is back in New York and continuing to plead his case after almost being deported Friday. -
Funeral services were held Wednesday in Cold Spring, New York for Putnam County Sheriff Kevin McConville, who died last week. Friends and colleagues are remembering McConville as a pillar of the law enforcement community who inspired the next generation of officers. -
Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck has retained a high-profile attorney to represent him largely pro-bono in a Texas lawsuit over New York’s shield law. -
An interview with Julie Gedro, dean of the College of Business at Empire State University, about why companies are issuing return-to-office mandates, and what it means for some workers. -
On this week's 51%, we speak with artist Alison Cornyn about a new exhibit remembering the lives lived and lost at the site of the former New York Training School for Girls. -
Thursday was move-in day for freshman students at SUNY New Paltz. -
There’s been a shakeup in the four-way race for mayor in Hudson, New York. Independent candidate Peter Spear dropped out of the race Tuesday, and is throwing his support behind the Democratic nominee.
