Robyne
FM News ReporterRobyne began her career in public media news at KUAC, coiling cables in the TV studio and loading reel-to-reel tape machines for the radio station.
She came to Alaska from California “for just a year” and never left. Since then, she has worked as a public radio reporter in Fairbanks, Homer and Barrow (now Utqiagvik,) and as a TV newscaster in Fairbanks. She also worked in social services for Big Brothers Big Sisters and Fairbanks Native Association, and taught journalism as a professor at UAF. She is married and has two grown children.
She explains the quirk of having only one name, “just Robyne, only six letters,” to DMV clerks, airline and TSA agents, pharmacists and insurance agents. She changed to only one name as a teenager, and has legally gone by Robyne for decades. “Overall, having only one name is usually fun, and an ice-breaker. But it’s unconventional for the news business, which you know, is pretty rigid. I want KUAC listeners to have the best journalism possible, no matter who is delivering it.”
Robyne loves how Alaska listeners support their radio stations, “and they keep us on our toes,” she says. “They demand quality and excellence, so we had better deliver that.”
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Interior Alaska is losing its last local television newscast. The corporate owner of NewsCenter Fairbanks is downsizing its news operation and laying of staff. -
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Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is showing off its career possibilities to high school students this week. Staff members are giving tours of the laboratories and have set up demonstration stations to give students some hands-on experience in the health care field. -
A group of Lathrop High School students in Fairbanks walked out of their fifth-period classes Wednesday to participate in a political protest. They spoke about their fears of losing personal rights under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. -
The National Christmas Tree that ends up in Washington D.C. is coming from Alaska this year. Two Fairbanksans are driving a special, extra-long tractor-trailer from Seattle to D.C., after the tree was barged from Wrangell. -
Alaska voters are setting records by voting early - find a location here: elections.alaska.gov/avo -
The town of 417 residents held its municipal election on October 1st. But local law allows them to hold a new election if voters have legitimate complaints about it. -
Mary Peltola and Nick Begich were in Fairbanks Thursday for a candidate forum. They answered questions about how they would serve for the next two years as Alaska’s US House representative. -
After a close count, Grier Hopkins is the new Fairbanks North Star Borough mayor. The borough’s canvass board counted absentee and questioned ballots yesterday.
