Robby Korth
News DirectorRobby Korth joined KOSU as its news director in November 2022.
Prior to that, he was StateImpact Oklahoma's education reporter from October 2019 to November 2022.
Robby has won multiple awards for his work. He was named Best Broadcast Reporter by the Oklahoma Society for Professional Journalists, for his work in 2021.
As students returned to the classroom in the fall of 2020, Robby spearheaded a database and map that tracked publicly announced COVID cases and closures in school districts across Oklahoma. This is information neither the State Department of Health nor the State Department of Education were tracking.
For that work, the Oklahoma Society for Professional Journalists gave him the Carter Bradley First Amendment Award and Freedom of Information (FOI) Oklahoma, Inc. gave him the Ben Blackstock Award, for a commitment to freedom of information.
He grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma and Fayetteville, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Journalism degree. Robby has reported for several newspapers, most recently covering higher education and other topics for The Roanoke Times in southwest Virginia. While there, he co-created the podcast Septic, spending a year reporting on the story of a missing five-year-old boy, the discovery of his body in a septic tank a few days after his disappearance, and the subsequent court trial of his mother. Although the story was of particular interest to residents in Virginia, the podcast gained a larger audience and was named as a New and Noteworthy podcast by Apple Podcasts.
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Lawmakers in both the House and Senate voted to override a Governor’s veto that would have led to the end of Oklahoma’s public television broadcaster, OETA. They also took up 12 other measures the governor had refused to sign into law, passing them without his support. -
Oklahoma lawmakers are considering measures to cut Gov. Kevin Stitt out of negotiations with the state’s Native American tribes on tobacco and fuel compacts.
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In the wake of a contentious fight over an education budget compromise only unveiled this week, lawmakers are making more time for themselves.
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Two major energy infrastructure companies in Tulsa are about to become one.
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This weekend, more than 200 dogs will be available for adoption at the facility and all fees will be waived.
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KOSU and StateImpact Oklahoma were named winners of best public service journalism in audio at the Great Plains Journalism Awards for the series Youth in Conversation.
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A fight over education funding has caught dozens of unrelated bills in the crossfire. Now, there are questions on whether there is enough political will or time to overturn Gov. Stitt's vetoes.
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Oklahoma has begun the process of no longer doing business with some of the country’s largest financial institutions.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt is hoping to bridge the divide between House and Senate leaders and end a standoff on education funding.
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Oklahoma’s Court of Criminal Appeals says Richard Glossip should be executed on May 18.
