Joe Moore
President & General ManagerJoe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. From 2010-2018 he served as the station's Director of Program Content. In that role, he launched the station's local news department, hosted the program Valley Edition, and represented the station in the design-build process for KVPR's new broadcast center.
Since becoming President and General Manager in 2019, he has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
He is a Fresno native and a graduate of California State University, Fresno.
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This devastating wildfire was one of the fastest burning fires in California history, as it tore through Madera and Mariposa Counties. -
The gold fields of Kern County gave birth to a number of rough-and-tumble mining towns, some of which still exist today. -
Lee was an acclaimed and prolific designed of movie "palaces." He believed the "show starts on the sidewalk." -
This innovative development model began south of Fresno in 1875 and was quickly replicated throughout the region, leading to the growth of small, owner-occupied farms. -
At 10 stories tall, the steel-framed office building set the model for most of downtown Fresno's other tall buildings in the following two decades. -
Before antibiotics, doctors treated TB with sunlight and fresh air at facilities in the foothills. -
While the bulk of the California Gold Rush took place from Mariposa north, the Central California foothills to the south also had a great deal of mining activity. -
These Valley roadways mark important "grid correction" lines that date back to a system devised by Thomas Jefferson.
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A planned mega-development along the river in the late 1980s spurred three women to start the San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust. -
In a heated exchange, Senator Kennedy told the sheriff to "read the Constitution" after he testified his deputies had arrested people who had not broken the law.
