Andrea Tudhope is the executive producer and director of the WPLN News daily show, This Is Nashville. She hired the founding team, and then successfully launched the show in March 2022. Tudhope has been in public media for 7 years, most recently serving as senior coordinating producer for America Amplified, a CPB-funded community engagement initiative. As a member of the leadership team, she trained and coordinated the efforts of reporters and producers across 50+ stations, wrote and edited a community engagement playbook and launched a national talk show around the election. Prior to that she worked for Kansas City’s NPR station, KCUR, producing a daily show and reporting daily news and long-term investigative stories, including an award-winning series on gun violence, with a grant from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker Radio Hour, NPR, Here & Now, The Colorado Independent, The Colorado Springs Gazette and HuffPost. Though she’s from Kansas City, Missouri, Tudhope has called many places home, including Colorado Springs, New York City and Dublin.Â
