WFYI Pressroom
December 16, 2024
WFYI Public Media has promoted Stacey Stuteville to Chief Development and Marketing Officer, leading the individual giving, corporate and philanthropic support and marketing strategies.
Read MoreOctober 31, 2024
WFYI and the sixteen other Indiana Public Broadcasting stations that make up IPBS have received $100,000 in funding to support their statewide news collaboration known as IPB News.
Read MoreMay 23, 2024
The WFYI News team is celebrating a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award win from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). The team was recognized in the news series category for Dylan Peers McCoy and Lee V. Gaines' reporting about special education families in Porter County, Indiana.
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2024
Today, WFYI Public Media announced the results of its 2024 board elections for Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media, its parent organization. In addition to its 2024 officers, the board added eight new directors. The 28-member volunteer board includes a wide range of local leaders who lend their expertise to ensuring the organization’s vitality.
Read MoreJanuary 8, 2024
Alisa Barba, an editor, collaborator and mentor to public media journalists for more than 25 years, has been named PMJA’s 2024 Leo C. Lee award recipient.
Read MoreDecember 11, 2023
Over the next two years, contingent on congressional funding, WFYI will collaborate with local partners including Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center and the Indianapolis Public Library to create a “Learning Neighborhood” that fosters a community-wide culture of learning at home, in the neighborhood, and within local systems and spaces.
Read MoreNovember 29, 2023
WFYI Public Media announced the receipt of a $250,000 Knight Foundation grant in support of the America Amplified initiative’s plan to train a nationwide network of 50+ public media newsrooms on effective and innovative reporting practices ahead of the 2024 elections.
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2023
On September 29, 2023, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced that Greg Petrowich, WFYI Public Media President and CEO, has been elected to the PBS Board of Directors as a Professional Director.
Read MoreAugust 17, 2023
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded Indianapolis-based WFYI Public Media a $1.5 million grant for America Amplified, a public media journalism initiative that focuses on listening to communities in the reporting process.
Read MoreJuly 31, 2023
Former WFYI President and CEO Lloyd Wright will be inducted into the Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations (IPBS) Hall of Fame on August 2, 2023, as one of four hall of fame inductees. IPBS is a collective of NPR and PBS stations throughout Indiana that serve as a trusted and free resource for news, educational programming and entertainment.
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