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Local newsrooms in Kentucky grapple with AI’s role in journalism

By Lily Burris, WKMS

December 17, 2025

Chris Evans is the publisher and editor of the Crittenden Press. He’s been with the paper for about three decades. Evans started using AI at his publication after a training seminar with the Associated Press.
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The emergence of artificial intelligence is prompting changes in several industries, including journalism, as they contemplate how to utilize the new technology.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Artificial Intelligence, journalism

Tennesseans’ economic worries transcend political party, Vanderbilt poll finds

By Marianna Bacallao

December 11, 2025

Anxiety over the cost of living has risen in Tennessee since President Donald Trump took office, according to a Vanderbilt University poll released Thursday.

Filed Under: Business, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: affordability, budget, Donald Trump, economy, John Geer, Josh Clinton, personal finance, tnleg, tnpol, vaccine, Vaccines, Vanderbilt Poll, Vanderbilt University

Hardwood companies seek relief from Trump tariffs

By Justin Hicks, KPR

November 28, 2025

GreenTree Forest Products in Wallingford, Kentucky.

President Donald Trump’s administration has promised financial relief for soybean farmers when the federal government reopens. The hardwood lumber industry, which has been struggling with impacts from Trump’s first term, wants to be included.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, logging, tariffs

Explosion updates: The latest from AES in Hickman County

By LaTonya Turner, Tony GonzalezandCaroline Eggers

October 12, 2025

Painful and painstaking work continues in the Bucksnort community, where a munitions explosion on Friday left 16 workers unaccounted for and feared dead. The disaster has commanded vast investigative resources from all levels of government and triggered strong emotions.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: AES Explosion, explosion, Hickman County

UPDATE: Blast at Tennessee explosives plant leaves multiple people dead and missing

By Paige Pfleger, Nina Cardona, Rose Gilbert, Tony GonzalezandLaTonya Turner

October 10, 2025

An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, a county sheriff said, as first responders said secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning site.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Accurate Energetic Systems, explosion, Hickman County

State incentives help draw Japanese medical device maker to Nashville

By Cynthia Abrams

September 24, 2025

Nissha Medical Technologies announced it would be partnering with Vanderbilt to advance endoscopic devices.

Filed Under: Business, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: economic incentives, medical device, Nissha Medical Technologies, Stuart McWhorter, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Vanderbilt University

Cracker Barrel suspends plans to remodel restaurants after logo blowup

By The Associated Press

September 10, 2025

Cracker Barrel said it’s suspending remodels of its restaurants after criticism from many longtime fans. The announcement came two weeks after Cracker Barrel backtracked on a separate plan to modernize and simplify its logo.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Cracker Barrel

Cracker Barrel brings back old logo after public outcry, plea from Trump

By Marianna Bacallao

August 26, 2025

Cracker Barrel is changing its logo back to the iconic man and barrel after the company’s new, more minimalist design sparked outcry from fans — and the White House.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Cracker Barrel, Donald Trump, Lebanon, MAGA

In America’s EV battery belt, Kentucky is next test for the UAW

By Lisa Autry, WKU Public Media

August 26, 2025

The BlueOval SK plant is located off I-65 in Glendale, KY.

Nearly 1,500 workers at a massive electric vehicle battery plant in Kentucky have an important election coming up. Hourly workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park will vote on whether they should join the United Auto Workers Union.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, BlueOval SK, electric vehicles, Labor unions

Utility to buy power from advanced nuclear plant to fuel Tennessee and Alabama Google data centers

By Jonathan Mattise, AP

August 21, 2025

The nation’s largest public utility plans to buy power from an upcoming advanced nuclear plant to help fuel Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama. The Tennessee Valley Authority, Kairos Power and Google announced the agreement will deliver up to 50 megawatts to the federal utility’s grid that powers the data centers.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Kairos Power, nuclear energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee Valley Authority

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