Pierce Gentry
ReporterBorn and raised in Knoxville, Pierce studied journalism in the University of Tennessee's College of Communication and Information. His work with WUOT covering Hurricane Helene, the Great Smoky Mountains and local government has earned him numerous awards, including "Best Radio Reporter" from the Southeast Journalism Conference. In his free time, Pierce enjoys reading, photography and getting lost in the Smokies.
You can contact him via email.
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Tennessee state police are exploring using facial recognition software. The state attorney general supports a lawsuit claiming the same technology illegally violates your privacy. -
The Washington County Commission approved nuclear technology company BWXT’s request to rezone part of its property for a federally-contracted high purity depleted uranium refinery in a 10-5 vote. -
An ethics complaint has been filed and a lawyer retained amid local dissatisfaction with the Washington County Commission. -
UT will give students, faculty and staff across its five campuses paid access to ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity and Claud as professors grapple with the pros and cons of the new technology. -
The signs in the Smokies are among nearly 40 exhibits across Tennessee the Trump administration could remove based on their content. -
The federal government is running out of a key ingredient for nuclear weapons: high-purity depleted uranium. Now they want to manufacture it in rural Tennessee. -
Tennessee is considering a bill which would require DHS to take nearly $80 million in federal aid each year to help kids afford food in the Summer after outcry from county mayors and community members. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority has moved to strike language about renewable energy generation and diversity, equity and inclusion while reversing plans to retire aging coal power plants. -
An associate professor of computer science at UT spent years communicating with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before leaving the university in 2021, DOJ documents show. -
As real estate developers continue to buy up swaths of land in Nashville and the surrounding area, portions of Tennessee's 122 Civil War battlefields are being lost in the process.
