Weather is always a major story in rural Midwestern states, and the practice of forecasting weather and issuing those messages to the public in this age of multiple media channels is making the practice of weather journalism more difficult in some instances.
That will be the topic of the 20th annual Huck Boyd Lecture in Community Media on Tuesday, March 31, in the K-State Student Union's Flint Hills Room. Bryan Busby, chief meteorologist for KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Missouri will present the lecture at 9:20 a.m. That will be followed by a panel discussion of television meteorologists with Busby being joined by Manhattan native Matt Hinkin of WATEZ-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Matt Miller of KSNT-TV in Topeka. They will discuss problems and issues of forecasting the weather.