Bill Kelly
Senior Producer/Reporter
Bill Kelly oversees production of Nebraska Public Media's news documentaries and reports for radio. Most recently, Bill produced documentaries on rural law enforcement, Nebraska floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Michigan native joined Nebraska Public Media in 1990 and has a special interest in covering the courts and criminal justice system. An Emmy award-winning journalist, Bill graduated from Purdue University. He worked at television stations in Lafayette, Indiana, Wichita, Kansas and Omaha.
Recent News Stories
- Prison murder trial relies on security video to ID suspect
- Jurors in prison riot murder trial hear evidence of homemade weapons, torches used in arson
- Former Dundy County Sheriff challenges recall election results, seeks reinstatement in federal court
- Dundy County Sheriff, lacking state certification, faces recall
- Nebraska relies on volunteer fire departments, but they're endangered by staffing challenges
- NRD Board member sues district over free speech violations
- Lack of volunteers ends ambulance service in Merriman
- School district settles Native American hair cutting lawsuit
- Winslow, NE begins to burn flood damaged homes
- Parents of teen allowed to take job at meatpacking plant guilty of child abuse
- Air Force discusses Nebraska land buys for missile site project
- Owners of North Platte gaming business charged with tax evasion
- Nebraska defends $44,000 cost for reporter's public records ask
- Boswell claims mass of crime photos led to unfair murder trial
- Senators propose funding $500k bounty on pheasant predators
- After 8 years as Attorney General, Peterson reflects on term
- Election officials tell judge vote fraud lawsuit is 'frivolous'
- Defeated legislature candidate asks judge for ballot recount
- Judge to decide if firefighter discrimination lawsuit advances
- All 93 Nebraska counties and Governor sued by election skeptic
- Fake blood. Real drama. Steelworkers practice for mass casualty
- New financing could quicken pace of NioCorp niobium mine project
- Burst pipe vacates dozens of Lincoln Penitentiary cells
- Court: Aubrey Trail death sentence justified, constitutional
- Flood holds onto his seat in the 1st Congressional District
Recent Media Contributions
- Working Fires
- Creating legal hemp crops, products in Nebraska is a challenge
- The COVID Chronicles
- NE Supreme Court rules State correct to reject Deputy Sheriff
- And The Floods Came Nebraska 2019
- Small Town Cops
- News: After Ebola: Nebraska and the Next Pandemic
- Speaking of Nebraska: Defy Program in Prison
- Speaking of Nebraska: Next on Death Row
- Speaking of Nebraska: Juvenile Justice
- News: After Ebola Web: Zoonotic Diseases
- News: Maria Barmettler: Student Designer
- Nebraska Stories: Jazz Reunion
- Until He Is Dead: A History of Nebraska's Death Penalty
- Nebraska Stories: Restoring the Big Boy
- Big Boy Restoration: Ehernberger
- Denimite Funding
- Marijuana Crossroads: Bev Smith, Medical Marijuana User
- Marijuana Crossroads: Dispensary Tour
- Marijuana Crossroads: Law Enforcement Reacts
- Marijuana Crossroads
- Charlie Rogers Sentencing
- News: Untill he is Dead: A history of Nebraska's Death Penalty
- Nebraska Stories: Don't Touch That Dial
- '68: The Year Nebraska Mattered