Nadya Faulx
Digital News Editor / ReporterNadya Faulx is KMUW's Digital News Editor and Reporter, which means she splits her time between working on-air and working online, managing news on KMUW.org, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She joined KMUW in 2015 after working for a newspaper in western North Dakota. Before that she was a diversity intern at NPR in Washington, D.C.
Nadya has a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in international studies from CU Denver. Before entering the world of journalism, she worked at a dog daycare and taught English in the Republic of Georgia.
While at KMUW, Nadya has been honored with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in social media and a first place award from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Award (KAB) for Public Affairs Program. She received first place with Beth Golay for the En Route segment of The Range and second place for Spot News and Station Website in 2020 from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 2019, she received a first place KAB award in spot news for Wichita To Get New Baseball Team, Stadium.
A native Texan and Colorado transplant, Nadya enjoys traveling, reading and hanging out with her dogs, Sunny and Zero, and her cat, Dragon.
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Sedgwick County leaders are optimistic a law will be passed this year that makes sure voters with disabilities can vote by mail.County commissioners have… -
Lawmakers in Congress are running out of time to pass immigration reform legislation before the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program… -
A leading Kansas LGBT rights group is pushing back against a newly adopted Kansas Republican Party resolution that activists say dehumanizes transgender… -
Hundreds of Republicans are expected in Wichita this weekend as the party holds it annual state convention.Party members will attend training sessions,… -
A Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputy has been charged with official misconduct after he allegedly withheld evidence in a narcotics investigation.The charge… -
Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell says the $200 billion dollars in federal funding included in President Trump’s infrastructure plan announced Monday is a… -
A new anti-harassment effort in Wichita is targeting sexual violence in bars.The mission of the SafeBar Alliance is to train bar staff on how to recognize… -
A former county commissioner says he's running again for the District 5 seat after nearly four years away from public service.Jim Skelton served on the… -
The Sedgwick County Department of Health is urging residents to get a flu shot if they haven’t already — because we’re not through the worst of the flu… -
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, is set to expire in a less than a month. The White House has offered a proposal that protects…
