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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After almost two years of construction, the newly remodeled Naftzger Park officially opened to the public Thursday — but without the planned fanfare.The… -
Testing for the coronavirus in Kansas has so far been done at the state level, but health leaders say that could change in a few weeks.Currently if… -
Walking into Jenny Dawn Cellars, one of the first things you’ll see is a small, worn wooden fruit press, about three feet tall, topped with a metal hand… -
Call it a ban on plastic bag bans.A new bill introduced this week in the Kansas House Commerce Committee would pre-emptively prevent state municipalities… -
A key Boeing supplier in Wichita, Kan., is laying off 2,800 workers because of the grounded 737 Max planes. Other suppliers will likely follow as the timetable keeps moving for the jets' return.
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A new performing arts center. Twelve acres of green space. And no Century II.Those are among the recommendations put forth by the coalition of community… -
Spirit AeroSystems announced Friday that it will lay off 2,800 employees at its plant in Wichita as the shutdown of the Boeing 737 Max program drags… -
Visitors to Wichita's new baseball stadium should expect to pay a little more for some purchases made there.The Wichita City Council on Tuesday approved a… -
Boeing's decision to halt production of its 737 Max jet next month will have far-reaching impacts on thousands of workers at supply chain companies in Wichita, the "Air Capital of the World."
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Electric buses will soon be on Wichita’s streets.The city rolled out its first four zero-emissions buses Thursday, making Wichita the first city in Kansas…
