{"id":410902,"date":"2026-08-19T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410902\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:57:36","slug":"kut-news-names-ben-philpott-new-morning-edition-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410902\/","title":{"rendered":"KUT News names Ben Philpott new Morning Edition host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin-based station has tapped award-winning journalist Ben Philpott after Jennifer Stayton announced she would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/article\/kut-morning-edition-host-jennifer-stayton-22258852.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">hang up her morning hat<\/a> after more than two decades on the job to move to a later slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was KUT News&#8217; first political reporter, covering eight Texas legislative sessions during his tenure, and followed former\u00a0Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on the presidential campaign trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the station, he worked in television news and at another public radio station, WBHM, in Birmingham, Ala.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philpott has received numerous awards for his reporting, including the Journalist of the Year from the Houston Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>Stayton is stepping away from the program when Philpott begins the new role in September after 22 years as morning host. She is leading a new KUT News reporting initiative focused on aging in Central Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had teased the project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/article\/kut-morning-edition-host-jennifer-stayton-22258852.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">her May announcement<\/a>, adding that shifting to the 9 a.m. to noon slot will also allow her to stand in as host for Jerry\u00a0Quijano on &#8220;Austin Signal,&#8221; fill any vacancies on &#8220;All Things Considered,&#8221; and hop in where needed on the broadcast schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austin-based station has tapped award-winning journalist Ben Philpott after Jennifer Stayton announced she would hang up her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-410902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}