Sarah Neal-Estes

Sarah Neal-Estes

Sarah Neal-Estes is the news director at WFYI, where she leads journalists and editors to deliver community engagement-based journalism locally, statewide, regionally and nationally.

Before coming to WFYI Sarah was the statewide managing editor for Indiana Public Broadcasting, where she established a statewide team shared by all nine public media newsrooms in Indiana. She taught journalism at Indiana University from 2007 - 2015, where she created two audio journalism courses.

Sarah began her professional journalism career at KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska, and earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree at the UCB Graduate School of Journalism.

Contact Sarah at sestes@wfyi.org and follow her on X at @sestes