Bridget Dowd
Host/Senior Field Correspondent | [email protected]Senior field correspondent Bridget Dowd has a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. During her time there, she served as the station manager for Blaze Radio, ASU’s student-run radio station. She was also a finalist for a Hearst Journalism Award in the Radio News & Features category.
Dowd first came to KJZZ as an intern in 2017. Later that year, she became a weekend reporter. Dowd went on to produce KJZZ’s Morning Edition from 2019 to 2021. She also spent a year working as a reporter and host for KTOO in Juneau, Alaska.
Dowd grew up all over the West Coast, but came to Arizona for college and couldn’t stay away from the desert. She especially enjoys covering stories about education and answering questions from listeners through KJZZ’s Q&AZ project.
After work, she’s usually spending time with her three cats: Otis, Grey and Georgie.
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The Scottsdale Unified School District has started planning for the future of two campuses that are set to close at the end of the school year. -
For 16 years, visitors could sleep in a suite inside a giant cave near the Grand Canyon. Now, it's being dismantled. -
The Tucson Unified School District has approved about $2.6 million of what is expected to be a total of about $10 million dollars in cuts from its budget for next year. -
Members of the Arizona Education Association (AEA) are opposing a ballot referral that they say would restrict how educators can organize for better working conditions. AEA is the labor union for Arizona public school educators. -
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is offering an incentive for organizations to purchase electric heavy duty vehicles. -
A Desert View Elementary School employee has been arrested by the FBI on allegations of possession and receipt of child pornography. -
Arizona’s three public universities have developed new tools to help the state manage the risks associated with abandoned mines. -
Members of the Scottsdale Unified School District governing board are at odds over how to make necessary budget cuts.
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Public school closures are continuing throughout the Valley. The Alhambra Elementary district in west Phoenix is the latest to join the list. -
KJZZ examines the storied history of the state’s five C’s — copper, cotton, cattle, citrus and climate — and the role they still play in modern-day Arizona.
