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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Oklahoma’s Court of Criminal Appeals says Congress disestablished the Osage Nation’s reservation around the time Oklahoma became a state.
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Task force also finds elections are secure and "most well-run in the nation."
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Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, died at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, the first death row inmate executed in Oklahoma this year.
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Oklahomans went to the polls Tuesday to vote on school bonds, school board and other municipal elections.
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court says the state legislature has authority to override the governor’s vetoes on tribal compacts.
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Dan Straughan sat down in the KOSU studios to reflect on how his career evolved with Curbside Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Nathan Poppe.
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The squad will play their first home series this week.
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The 2024 class also includes country singer John Anderson and pop, rock and county guitarist James Burton.
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House Bill 2730 would require a public body to give written notice about why a records request takes more than 10 days and give an estimated date of availability.
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Despite 10 nominations, the Oklahoma-shot film that tells the story of the Osage Reign of Terror claimed no Oscars.