Chris Bolt
Senior Reporter/Professional in ResidenceChris Bolt, Ed.D. has proudly been covering the Central New York community and mentoring students for more than 30 years. His career in public media started as a student volunteer, then as a reporter/producer. Dedicated to keeping local news coverage alive, Chris also has a passion for education, having trained, mentored and provided a platform for growth to more than a thousand students. Career highlights include having work appear on NPR, CBS, ABC and other news networks, winning numerous local and state journalism awards. Recent reporting has focused on health and medicine, environment, elderly, substance abuse and culture reporting.
Chris has a doctor of education in executive leadership from St. John Fisher College and a master’s in broadcast journalism from the Newhouse School.
In addition to coverage of our community, equally satisfying has been the success of so many WAER alumni, students who have won and succeeded in jobs in news, sports and elsewhere in media, many of whom won awards at local, state and national levels as students. He has also taught classes at Newhouse and at OCC. Chris also enjoys connecting WAER with the community through moderating debates, facilitating and hosting public meetings, giving media training workshops and other events.
Chris and his wife Anne live in downtown Syracuse. They have two grown sons, Carter and Donovan, who both remain in the area. Their family enjoys all things Upstate New York, including myriad outdoor activities in the Adirondacks, Finger Lakes, music and other cultural events, and just about anything on a trail or on the water.
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Slain Syracuse police officer Michael Jensen will have a stretch of Route 46 in Rome named after him. Jensen was killed in a shootout in Salina, along with Sheriff's Lt. Michael Hoosock. -
A Senator Kirsten Gillibrand bill would fight age discrimination by ensuring a victim has legal recourse. Meanwhile a state proposal would reduce age-related bias in job application process. -
Plastic is everywhere, used widely in manufacturing and packaging. The waste is found all over the environment, even in our bodies. There are ideas to reduce and reuse plastic to lessen the impacts. -
Several large businesses are looking for skilled laborers at a job fair Wednesday, September 10. -
The New York Governor’s Traffic Safety Council reported 131,000 tickets issued in increased enforcement leading to Labor Day. State & local agencies caught drivers on speeding, impaired, districted driving, other infractions. -
A report from the NY Health Foundation says fear is causing immigrants, documented and undocumented, to miss medical care. Adults and children avoid hospitals and clinics, worried about immigration raids. -
New York State Department of Transportation officials warn drivers of slowdowns on Interstate 81, northbound and southbound, Sept. 4 thru early October. The weekday ‘rolling slowdowns’ will be just south of downtown Syracuse -
Onondaga County residents can help prevent mosquito-borne diseases by taking personal protection seriously and keeping an eye out for dead birds that could be infected. -
Syracuse gas prices jumped an average of 6-cents-a-gallon in the past week, in Gas Buddy.com reports. Analysts say this spike shouldn’t last, if hurricanes are mild in oil refinery states. -
The group One Fair Wage rallied in front of Trump Tower to call for a minimum wage of $25.00 to $30.00 dollars-an-hour. MIT research shows that’s needed to pay basic bills.
