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Laurel Creech is WMOT’s Saturday and Sunday afternoon host. Laurel has been in radio for nearly 25 years starting in 1998 as radio host on Nashville’s WRLT Lighting 100 where she was also founder and director of Team Green Adventures and co-founder of the Live On the Green music concert series.

Benji McPhail can be found Friday afternoons from 4-7 and Saturdays from 10 am – 2 pm on 89.5 WMOT.

Amy Alvey is a fiddler, singer and songwriter who tours the country as half of the duo Golden Shoals. She’s a Berklee graduate who's spent the better part of a decade immersed in the old-time scene, performing and picking into the wee hours at the nation’s fiddle gatherings and music festivals. She hosts the weekly Sunday night old-time jam at Dee’s Country Lounge in Madison.

Liz Halloran joined NPR in December 2008 as Washington correspondent for Digital News, taking her print journalism career into the online news world.

Frank James joined NPR News in April 2009 to launch the blog, "The Two-Way," with co-blogger Mark Memmott.

Gina Logue hosts “MTSU On the Record,” a 30-minute interview program heard on WMOT-FM each Monday at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday at 8 a.m. "MTSU On the Record" was honored in 2012 as the best radio program among the state's colleges and universities by the Tennessee College Public Relations Association. The program also was recognized for excellence in 2012 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She has hosted the program for the past seven years. In addition, Gina (pronounced JIN-uh) writes, voices and produces the 60-second “Middle in a Minute” vignettes heard throughout WMOT programming. A veteran of 20 years of radio experience prior to working with WMOT, Gina covered Alabama politics during the last administration of Gov. George Wallace and Louisiana politics during the third administration of Gov. Edwin Edwards and the sole term of Gov. Buddy Roemer. She has covered the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, the 1989 five-day goodwill visit of Soviet warships to the world’s largest naval base in Norfolk, Va., and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Her reporting has aired on AP Radio, CBS Radio and the Voice of America. In 1984, she and Alabama Radio Network colleague Jim Merlini won a UPI award for presidential election coverage. In addition, Gina won the ARK/LA UPI awards for Best Feature and Outstanding Achievement in the Best Newscast category in 1986 and Best Feature and Best Individual Achievement in 1987, all while with the Louisiana Network. Over the years, she has interviewed numerous newsmakers and celebrities, ranging from Patricia Neal, Charlie Daniels, Sam Snead and Bobby Orr to David Halberstam, Morris Dees, Gloria Steinem and Benazir Bhutto.

John Freeman is the editor of Grantamagazine. A former president of the National Book Critics Circle, his criticism has appeared in publications around the world, including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Book Review. His latest book is The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox.