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Image of Peter Medlin, education journalist and podcast host of Teachers' Lounge at WNIJ, Northern Public Radio. He is in his kitchen holding his cat, a long haired orange and white cat named Jerbear who has an orange mustache. He has long blonde hair and a beard.

ABOUT ME

I am an education reporter for the station and host of WNIJ's Teachers' Lounge podcast. I am a graduate of North Central College where I was the news editor of their student-run news magazine and website “NCCLinked,” as well as a host for their pure rock radio station WONC. After graduating, I reported for Naperville Community TV, before hopping back into radio at WNIJ. I love comic books, writing, running and basketball; and can often be found playing with my cat, who is very cute and rules my apartment with an iron paw.

MY INTERESTS

EDUCATION

SPORTS &
POP CULTURE

Education has been my beat at WNIJ for a few years now, and while I was first inspired by my family connections to the field, both my mom and stepmom are educators, I've grown to be passionate about education as a field.

I love sports, so I love every chance I get to cover it professionally, as well as pop culture as a whole. I've mainly been covering high school and college sports, but every so often I get requested to come on to different radio shows to give my analysis on professional teams.

PODCASTING

Hosting Teachers' Lounge has been the highlight of my professional career thus far--I've interviewed so many fascinating educators and done so many interesting things with the podcast. I couldn't be more proud of the work I've done with Teachers' Lounge.

MY HOBBIES

Image of Peter Medlin, education journalist and podcast host of Teachers' Lounge for WNIJ, Northern Public Radio. He is sitting on a cliff at Devil's Lake in Wisconsin, facing away from the camera, looking out at the lake. He is wearing a black baseball hat, red and black flannel shirt, shorts, and running shoes.

I love hiking and I've hiked all over the country, from the Appalachians in the east to Mt Rainer in the west. I mainly go out exploring the great outdoors with my dad and my brothers, but I often go for solo runs through the woods.

Image of Peter Medlin, education journalist and podcast host of Teachers' Lounge for WNIJ, Northern Public Radio, and his father at a White Sox game in Chicago. He is wearing a denim jacket over a North Central College t-shirt, and his father is wearing sunglasses with a zip up sweatshirt over a blue Run MDI t-shirt.

I love sports, but the sport I love most of all is baseball, and the team I love the most is the White Sox. I've been to countless games with my dad, a Cardinals fan, and I have more baseball trivia facts memorized than I care to disclose here.

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