Jim Levulis
Associate News DirectorEmail: jlevulis@wamc.org
Born and raised in Eden, NY, Jim has been WAMC’s Associate News Director since October 2016. Since 2020, Jim has hosted WAMC's main news programs: Midday Magazine, Northeast Report and Northeast Report Late Edition. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief for three years. Jim is also the founding producer of the podcast A New York Minute In History. He previously worked as a reporter, producer and anchor at WAER, an NPR member station in Syracuse. He has experience in Top 40 radio and has spent time with NPR member station WBFO and CBS-affiliate WIVB-TV, both in Buffalo.
Jim's work has won numerous awards from the New York State Associated Press Association, the New York State Broadcasters Association, the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association and the Syracuse Press Club. He was also a finalist for the 2015 Mirror Awards, handed out by Syracuse University. His work on A New York Minute In History won a Edward R. Murrow Award for best podcast in 2021.
Jim holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism and History from Syracuse University.
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New York State has released a final plan for a permanent drinking water source in Hoosick Falls to address PFOA contamination detected in 2016 in the Rensselaer County village’s water supply. -
Former New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo is entering the race for state attorney general.
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The Adirondack Council has released a VISION 2050 plan offering recommendations on how to manage the 6 million acre park in New York including its ecology and the communities throughout it.
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Hampden Superior Court Judge Edward McDonoughhas dismissed the criminal charges against two former leaders of the Holyoke Soldiers Home over their handling of a COVID-19 outbreak that killed at least 76 veterans last year.
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Lisa Garcia has been appointed the Region 2 Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The post covers New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and eight Indian Nations.
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A Warren County soldier killed during the Korean War has been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Wednesday that Army Sergeant Howard Belden of Hague was accounted for in October.
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A documentary being screened in Utica this weekend looks at how the city in New York’s Mohawk Valley has become a haven for refugees over the past several decades.
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In an interview with WAMC, Westchester County Executive George Latimer says he is eyeing a number of projects now that Congress has passed President Biden's infrastructure package. The Democrat, who was just elected to a second four-year term, says it is unlikely he will run for governor in 2022.
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Authorities in western Massachusetts have determined the death of an inmate at the Berkshire County House of Correction Sunday was a suicide.
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An annual gathering of New York technology and advanced manufacturing leaders is underway at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona. The two-day event – which like a lot of gatherings last year was held virtually – runs through Tuesday.
