Lauri Lebo
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Lauri Lebo is an author
, radio station
owner and reporter from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
. Working for the York Daily Record
, Lebo was the principal local reporter covering Kitzmiller v. Dover in 2004 and 2005, and was featured prominently in the Nova documentary Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
both because of her coverage and because her father, who owned Christian radio station WWII-AM in Harrisburg, sided with the Dover school board in the controversy.
An award winning journalist for over 20 years, Lebo left reporting to write The Devil in Dover
, a book about the Kitzmiller trial and its effects on Dover. Lebo's coverage of the case inspired her husband, Americana
singer-songwriter Jefferson Pepper
, to name his history-themed album "American Evolution".
After her father's death, Lebo, a disk-jockey at WWII-AM in its prior incarnation as an oldies station, became its owner. She has testified on media ownership to the FCC both as a reporter and a station owner.
Author
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, radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
owner and reporter from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...
. Working for the York Daily Record
York Daily Record
The York Daily Record/York Sunday News is a morning newspaper that serves York, Pennsylvania.The paper, printed in a broadsheet format, is published seven days a week...
, Lebo was the principal local reporter covering Kitzmiller v. Dover in 2004 and 2005, and was featured prominently in the Nova documentary Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial is an award-winning NOVA documentary on the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which concentrated on the question of whether or not intelligent design could be viewed as science and taught in school science class...
both because of her coverage and because her father, who owned Christian radio station WWII-AM in Harrisburg, sided with the Dover school board in the controversy.
An award winning journalist for over 20 years, Lebo left reporting to write The Devil in Dover
The Devil in Dover
The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America is a book by journalist Lauri Lebo about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District intelligent design trial, through her own perspective as a local reporter on the trial as she confronted her own attitudes about...
, a book about the Kitzmiller trial and its effects on Dover. Lebo's coverage of the case inspired her husband, Americana
Americana (music)
Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...
singer-songwriter Jefferson Pepper
Jefferson Pepper
Jefferson Pepper is an American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist and social/environmental activist. He lives in the Conewago Mountains, outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA....
, to name his history-themed album "American Evolution".
After her father's death, Lebo, a disk-jockey at WWII-AM in its prior incarnation as an oldies station, became its owner. She has testified on media ownership to the FCC both as a reporter and a station owner.