Madelyn Beck
ReporterMadelyn Beck is from Montana, but has reported everywhere from Alaska to Washington, D.C. Most recently, she was the Wyoming reporter for public media collaboration Inside Energy. There, she reported on regional and national energy issues for radio stations around the West.
Past publications include the Idaho Mountain Express, E&E News/EnergyWire, KRBD Rainbird Radio, the Montana Broadcaster’s Association, Montana Public Radio, and the Tioga Tribune.
Madelyn reports on agriculture, environment and health out of her Galesburg office as part of the Illinois Newsroom regional journalism collaborative for WVIK and Tri States Public Radio. She also contributes to Harvest Public Media.
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Come January 14, Illinois will have a new pro-pot-legalization governor and a Democrat-held legislature, leading many to believe the state will legalize…
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Fields, crops and farm animals are part of the agriculture-industry landscape, but an increasingly small one. The number of farm and ranch managers...
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I’m used to long roads.I grew up at the dead end of a dirt one in rural Montana.For my latest radio story, I drove about 11 hours. Every person I…
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has removed a regulation meant to force trains carrying crude oil or other flammable liquids to adopt electronic…
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As life expectancy increases, farmers are staying in the business, but there’s still a need to plan for what happens when they die. At the same time,...
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Rural counties are facing a lot of heat over Illinois’ booming solar power development.The big push started in late 2016 when the state legislature passed…
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Technology changing access and outcomes in abortion debatePresident Donald Trump has stood strongly behind the anti-abortion movement, and his Supreme…
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Pesticides are all over, from backyard gardens to cornfields. While their use doesn’t appear to be slowing, concern over drift and the resulting effects...
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Scott Pruitt’s resignation from the Environmental Protection Agency this month has many in the renewable fuel industry hoping that federal agencies will...
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Two counties in southwestern Illinois grow the majority of the nation’s — possibly the world’s — horseradish. The city of Collinsville, population 25...