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
- Frakes: Prison Employees Must Resist Manipulation by Inmates
- Fortenberry Attempts to Block Fed's Corruption Case Evidence
- Judge Rejects Fortenberry Motions to Block Corruption Trial
- How a Minden Lawsuit Redefined Title IX for Public Schools
- Pandemic Pushes Telehealth Technology Into Hospitals, Homes
- Failed Bug of Prison Worker Led to Dropped Drug Smuggling Charge
- Nebraska Supreme Court equation: 2 marriage licenses = bigamy
- Chadron State loss in Title IX jury trial surprised observers
- Woman Wins Jury Decision v. Chadron State College in Title IX Case, Awarded $300,000
- Title IX Complaint Trial Underway in Jane Doe v. Nebraska State Colleges
- Firm Behind Nebraska Niobium Project Quiet During Annual Meeting
- Court Settlement Clears Path for Church Construction in Walthill
- Chadron State Sees Women's Wrestling as the Next Big Sport
- Before Title IX, Women's Sports Pioneer Claussen Found a Path
- Boswell Avoids Death Sentence, Receives Life Sentence For Sydney Loofe Murder
- As Hemp Growing Expands, Producers Careful to Produce Legal Crop
- Audit Discovers Drugs Missing from State Patrol Evidence Room; Employee Arrested in Connection With Overdoses
- "It's Scary." Nebraska Prison Staff Share Fears of Violence
- Crawford Fire Remains a Threat; Gering Blaze "Tamped down"
- Nebraska Television Pioneer Leta Powell Drake Passes Away
- Memorial Quilt Collection in Lincoln Adds Perspective to the Losses of 9/11
- Explicit Email Snagged by High School Results in Arrest of Butler County Man
- Non-Profit News Outlet Seeks to Fill Gap in Nebraska as Newspapers Shrink
- First Degree Murder Charge Filed in Cherry County Homicide
- Outgoing Nebraska Emergency Manager Urges Preparation
Recent Media Contributions
- Creating legal hemp crops, products in Nebraska is a challenge
- 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
- Defy Program in Prison
- Next on Death Row
- Juvenile Justice
- News: After Ebola Web: Zoonotic Diseases
- News: Maria Barmettler: Student Designer
- Jazz Reunion
- Until He Is Dead: A History of Nebraska's Death Penalty
- 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
- Don't Touch That Dial
- '68: The Year Nebraska Mattered
- Don't Touch That Dial