Sophia Saliby
All Things Considered Local Host and ProducerSophia Saliby is the local producer and host of All Things Considered, airing 4pm-7pm weekdays on 90.5 FM WKAR.
Sophia Saliby joined WKAR and MSU ComArtSci in April 2020.
Sophia comes to WKAR from Georgia Public Broadcasting, where she was the producer for GPB's All Things Considered broadcast in Atlanta.
Prior to that experience, Sophia was a reporter for WFIU/WTIU in Bloomington, Indiana. She has won numerous awards from the Indiana Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists. Saliby graduated from Indiana University with degrees in international studies and Arabic.
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MSU professor Doug Bessette researches the reasons why communities support or oppose renewable energy development. Some of this work could be applied to data centers. -
Michigan State University Libraries received a $1 million federal grant to digitize early WKAR-TV programs from the 1950s and '60s. -
Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and modern-day work to restore the plant. -
New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley's latest novel "Sisters in the Wind" returns to Michigan's Indigenous communities to tell a story about foster care. -
October 29 is Public Radio Music Day which celebrates the role public radio music stations play in their communities. -
Michigan farmers have a new option to connect to people who want to get into agriculture with an online platform that may remind you of an old-school personals column. -
Charges against two men arrested during Michigan State University's Welcome Week in downtown East Lansing have been dropped. -
Ingham County 911 Central Dispatch is grappling with staffing vacancies, excessive overtime and burnout among employees, but temp workers and AI could offer reprieve. -
"Michigan’s Con-Con 11: Women and State Constitution-making in 1961" tracks the experiences of the 11 women delegates during the state's 1961 constitutional convention. -
The documentary "Troubled Water" a 400-mile paddleboard trip to bring awareness to the movement to shutdown Enbridge's Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac.
