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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, April 1st, 2025.
Later in the program, the Runcible Spoon hosted a fundraiser with Bloomington Stands with Ukraine, featuring a dinner and a choir performance. Mackenzie Lionberger has more in today’s newscast.
Local voices share their heaviest worries from the doomscrolling churn of the 24-hour news cycle. WFHB reporters hit the streets to find out what’s on your mind later in the show in a feature report.
Feature Reports:
On March 26, the Runcible Spoon hosted a fundraiser with Bloomington Stands with Ukraine, featuring a dinner and a choir performance. The event, supported by Indiana University’s Eastern European and Slavic department, aimed to unite attendees and raise awareness about Ukraine’s struggle. WFHB Correspondent Mackenzie Lionberger has more.
People worry. What are they worrying about today? The churn of the 24-hour news cycle and our constant exposure to social media prompted Merriam-Webster to add a new word to the dictionary about a year and a half ago: Doomscrolling. Compulsively consuming negative news. Excessive and prolonged exposure to distressing content despite feeling anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed. WFHB dispatched more than a dozen reporters to canvass downtown Bloomington and the IU campus to find out what is weighing most heavily on the minds of local residents.
The U.S. Department of Education has threatened to pull federal funding from Indiana University over allegations of antisemitism. In response, 38 current and former Jewish faculty sent a letter to IU leadership urging them to defend free speech on campus. In today’s feature report, we speak with Benjamin Robinson, Associate Professor in Germanic Studies at IU, about the letter’s message and the broader fight for academic freedom. WFHB Correspondent Kade Young has Part II of that interview.
Up next, Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB and Lil Bub’s Big Fund. We now turn to that segment on the WFHB Local News.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Today’s opinion feature was produced by students in the Audio Storytelling class in The Media School at Indiana University.
Our features were produced by Mackenzie Lionberger and Kade Young.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
