Media Section

• Channel 5 goes live online

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 7, 2023

  

  During his first several months at the station’s helm, Station Manager Ben Guenther’s guiding mission has been to make Channel 5 accessible to as many of those creative people as possible.

• 30 years on the air with Vick Mickunas

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 15, 2023

  

  Since 1993, he has built a career out of sharing those same passions with listeners and readers in the Miami Valley and beyond: June marked Mickunas’ 30th anniversary with WYSO 91.3 FM.

• Yellow Springs News hosts South African journalists

  By Lauren ShowsJune 6, 2023

  

  Andile Nomabhunga, of Matatiele, in the Eastern Cape Province, and Dunisani Ntsanwisi, of Giyani, in Limpopo Province, spent the week working with the News as part of a three-week fact-finding project investigating ways to boost the sustainability of South Africa’s community media.

• News loses, staffers awarded

  By YS News StaffMay 30, 2023

  

  Despite the loss, the News was happy to accept a handful of individual awards, including first place for news coverage for the entire staff.

• The 2022-23 Guide to Yellow Springs

  By YS News StaffOctober 13, 2022

  

  With the theme of “Contributions, Big and Small,” this year’s Guide to Yellow Springs shines a light on the revolutionary inventions, pioneering patents and novel ideas that originated within the 2.7 square miles of the village.

• State funding strengthens WYSO community presence

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 5, 2022

  

  A recent funding allocation of $566,000 from the Ohio state capital budget has provided an opportunity for WYSO to strengthen its local presence in Yellow Springs and its listening audience in the greater Miami Valley region.

• Yellow Springs News wins again at Hooper Awards

  By YS News StaffApril 12, 2022

  

  For the 12th year in a row, the Yellow Springs News won the top prize at an annual state competition for weekly newspapers.

• 91.3 WYSO receives $25,000 grant

  By Jessica ThomasMarch 5, 2022

  

  The grant money will be used to purchase new broadcasting equipment and have it installed, pay for the “highly specialized” acoustic treatments for the studio spaces and purchase new furniture for the WYSO team.

• Editorial | When local news is history

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 14, 2022

  

  “Though they were clean and well-lit, I recognized all of these printing elements as siblings of the dusty machines and implements that live in the dim back space of the YS News office.”

• ‘Loud As the Rolling Sea’ | An interview with activist, educator Jewel Graham

  By YS News StaffJanuary 23, 2022

  

  In collaboration with 91.3-FM WYSO’s Eichelberger Center for Community Voices, the News is publishing excerpted transcripts from WYSO’s series “Loud As the Rolling Sea.”