Reporting on the West with Kirk Siegler on Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published April 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM MDT

Allison Shelley

NPR

Kirk Siegler at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018.

This episode first aired in March.

We talk with NPR reporter Kirk Siegler. Kirk Siegler is a national correspondent for NPR News. As a roving reporter, he covers the western U.S. with an emphasis on rural issues, water and the effects of climate change on smaller communities and former natural resource dependent towns.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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