Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:19 — 41.7MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025. In today’s newscast, we look back at our reporting on free speech issues at Indiana University. We revisit an interview with FIRE, the free speech organization that ranked IU the worst public college in the nation for the …
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Tucker Carlson Speaks at IU Auditorium, Sparks Debate Concerning Free Speech on Campus
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:08 — 9.9MB)Subscribe: RSSConservative political commentator Tucker Carlson and Indiana Governor Mike Braun spoke at the IU Auditorium on Tuesday. The speaking engagement was part of Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour.” Carlson spoke in place of conservative activist Charlie Kirk who was initially scheduled to headline the event. WFHB News Correspondents Catherine Terwilliger, …
Read More »Student Groups Grapple with Funding Cuts
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:44 — 9.6MB)Subscribe: RSSA number of student-run activities and events on the IU Bloomington campus were blindsided this school year by funding cuts. In the case of University Players, a student-run theater group, total funding was cut by 80%. Correspondent Harley Babbitt has the story of how some of these groups reacted …
Read More »WFHB Local News – May 6th, 2025
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:17 — 47.1MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. In today’s newscast, we revisit our reporting one year ago when Palestine solidarity protests broke out in Dunn Meadow at Indiana University. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, “Water Safety for …
Read More »WFHB Local News – May 5th, 2025
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:13 — 41.6MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, May 5th, 2025. In today’s newscast, WFHB News covers ICE’s presence in Bloomington last week – a protest that happened on Friday and an in-studio interview with an organizer with the Palestine Solidarity Committee. More in today’s feature report. That’s Jack …
Read More »IU Hosts Student Involvement Fair and Student Activities Fair
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:52 — 7.7MB)Subscribe: RSSWith Indiana University back in session campus organizations are recruiting students to join their ranks. On Thursday of the first week of classes we embedded reporters at two campus engagement events – the Media School Student Activities Fair and the larger more general IU Student Involvement Fair. Their report …
Read More »March on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:51 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: RSSThis Monday, thousands gathered in Chicago’s Union Park to voice their opposition to the ongoing war in Gaza. The protest was the first event in a week of planned demonstrations coinciding with the Democratic National Convention, being held at the nearby United Center on the western side of the …
Read More »WFHB Local News – June 11th, 2024
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, June 11th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB News Correspondent Annika Harshbarger continues the third and final installment of her series of reports on the arrests made at the Dunn Meadow protests earlier this year. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in …
Read More »WFHB Local News – May 15th, 2024
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, May 15th, 2024. In today’s feature report, the producers of Kite Line interviewed two professors at Indiana University who gave their reaction to the student Palestine solidarity protests in Dunn Meadow. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the …
Read More »Commitments Part One
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:57 — 39.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWelcome to Part One of our Commitments Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we feature an interview with Pallavi Rao, activist …
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