Meet The Anchors/Reporters For KARN Newsradio & The Arkansas Radio Network
Jack Heinritz is News Director for KARN Newsradio and the Arkansas Radio Network A 40-year Radio News veteran, Jack has a B.A. in Journalism from Michigan State University, with radio stops at WNFL, Green Bay; WPAG, Ann Arbor; WVIC-FM, East Lansing; WXYZ, Detroit; KGO and KFRC, San Francisco; KNUS-FM, KLIF, KRLD and WBAP in Dallas-Fort Worth. He is married to the former Susan Martinez and has one daughter, Marin.
Pearson is known to many Central Arkansas television viewers as a former weeknight news anchor and reporter. His career in Arkansas spans 16 years; with KATV from 1987 to 1993 and with KTHV from 1998 to 2006. Pearson began in radio at age 14 in Lafayette (luh-fay-ette), Tennessee, moving to WSM-AM/FM in Nashville in 1979 at age 19. He made the transition to television in 1986 in Mobile, Alabama.
Originally from the Boston area, Donna Kelley holds an MS in Television and Radio from Syracuse University and a BA in English from St. Lawrence University. Over the years she has worked as a television or radio anchor/reporter in Massachusetts, New York and, most recently, Orlando, Florida. A happy transplant to Little Rock, Donna says her next goal is to remember that when friendly Arkansans ask her "Ya doin' aw-wright?" they're not looking for her life history.
Born and raised in St Louis, Missouri, Dana Bradley came to Arkansas as a broadcast journalism major. She graduated from the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2004. Before joining KARN as an anchor/reporter, she was a morning show producer at KATV Channel 7, a radio traffic reporter, and a reporter for the Pine Bluff Commercial newspaper. She says that working for KARN is a great beginning to her career.
