Hometown: Franklin, Tennessee

Alana Watson rejoined WKU Public Radio in August 2020 as the Ohio Valley ReSource economics reporter. She transitioned to the station's All Things Considered Host in July of 2020. She brings our coverage area local and regional news each weekday from 3 to 6 central, 4 to 7 eastern. Watson is a 2017 graduate of Western Kentucky University and has a B.A. in Broadcasting Journalism. She also has her M.A in Communications from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. Watson is from Franklin, Tennessee. She has interned at WPLN-FM in Nashville. In 2019, she won a Tennessee AP Broadcaster & Editors Award for her sports feature on Belmont University's smallest point guard. While at WKU Public Radio she won Best College Radio Reporter in 2016 from the Kentucky AP Broadcasters Association for her work on post-apartheid South Africa. Watson was previously at Wisconsin Public Radio as their 2nd Century Fellow where she did general assignment and feature reporting in Milwaukee.