Team Members
Meet Our Radio Team
Jonas Bowen currently serves as WLVR’s Operations Director. He began his career in Broadcasting in Shenandoah Valley at WINC FM, a heritage FM signal expanding into the greater Washington DC area. Jonas’ voice has been heard over the last two decades, on a dozen AM and FM stations in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland and eventually Pennsylvania, where Bowen started working as the Audio Engineer for PBS39-WLVT, assisting with live election coverage, live debates and live community conversations.
Jonas can be contacted at jbowen@wlvrnews.org
Brad Klein comes to the WLVR News team with more than 25 years of professional experience in radio, podcast and video production. His first job in public radio was on late-night show, Heat with John Hockenberry, which led to production roles in a number of start-ups at NPR, MSNBC and WNYC. Klein also assisted in the creation of NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. He played similar start-up roles for NPR’s Weekly Edition, MSNBC’s Edgewise, Public Radio International’s Satellite Sisters and even as a writer on one of the early pilot episodes of the comedic news show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Klein has also worked as a reporter, producer, and director for National Public Radio News programs including Weekend Edition and All Things Considered.
Brad can be contacted at bklein@wlvrnews.org
Brittany Sweeney, a 2020 Emmy Award Winner for Video Journalist, is passionate about telling compelling stories in her home state of Pennsylvania. Prior to her role as health reporter with WLVR and PBS39, Sweeney graduated from Temple University and spent most of her career working as an anchor and reporter for NBC affiliates in northeastern Pennsylvania and Ohio. When she’s not covering news around the Lehigh Valley, Sweeney can be found adventuring with her two children, Max and Maci.
She can be contacted at brittanys@wlvt.org.
Megan Frank is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated multimedia reporter. She covers technology, science and the environment for WLVR. Megan has worked on a variety of projects at PBS39, including the award-winning weekly news program PBS39 News Tonight, the digital literacy series Tech Takeover, the documentary Food Waste in the Valley, and Stop The Violence, an award-winning series about teen violence and gang recruitment. Recently, she wrote and produced the short film, The Future Is Female: Women, Space and NASA, which focused on the role women play in America’s space program. A native Philadelphian, Megan kicked off her career as an intern and freelancer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. She has worked at WHYY in Philadelphia and WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pa. She’s a fan of black coffee and beatnik poetry. In her spare time, you can find her working in her garden or playing tug of war with her super mutt, Rocky.
Send her story ideas at meganf@wlvt.org.
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