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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After just two years, the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department announced that it is suspending the operations of The Lookout Kitchen locations in state parks. -
John Rex Charter School plans to open a new high school in downtown Oklahoma City for the 2028-29 school year, up the street from its current location. -
Reporters fanned out across the Oklahoma City Thunder championship parade. Here's what they saw. -
Oklahoma City will host a parade following the Thunder’s first-ever NBA Championship. -
The Oklahoma City Thunder's 2025 NBA title is the city’s first-ever major championship in a professional sport. There will be a parade on Tuesday. -
The OKC Thunder claim the 2024-25 NBA championship, beating the Indiana Pacers in a deciding Game 7 by a score of 103-91. -
Thousands of Oklahomans rallied across the state to protest President Donald Trump Saturday morning. While the protest in Oklahoma City wasn’t without a few so-called agitators — and a lot of rain — the event remained peaceful. -
This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses the 2025 legislative session, the troubled mental health agency and the curtailing of Ryan Walters' power. -
In the wake of a record number of vetoes by Gov. Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma lawmakers decided they wanted to pass many of their measures without his blessing. -
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that Oklahoma’s contract for what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school is unconstitutional.
