Anne Danahy
ReporterAnne Danahy has been a reporter at WPSU since fall 2017. Before crossing over to radio, she was a reporter for more than 11 years at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where she covered everything from school board races to the impact of natural gas development on communities.
She earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and a master's degree in media studies from Penn State.
Before joining WPSU, she worked as a writer and editor at Penn State's Office of Strategic Communications and, before that, at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
She also hosts a Q&A program for C-NET, Centre County's government and education access station. She is married with cats.
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A recent investigative article by Spotlight PA and the Centre Daily Times focuses on Penn State’s methods for handling reports of wrongdoing. WPSU spoke with one of the reporters about their findings, including a lack of a standardized way for tracking reports of misconduct. -
The Penn State board of trustees finance committee approved budgets and employee pay increases, but the university says those raises are on hold until the state approves its budgets and releases the university's funding. -
Wildfires in Canada are breaking records this year, and one effect has been days of haze and unhealthy air in Pennsylvania. WPSU spoke with Erica Smithwick, a fire ecology expert and distinguished professor of geography at Penn State, about the fires and what role climate change is playing. -
Penn State is overhauling the system it uses to classify its staff and decide how much they should be paid, and according to professors who spoke during a Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday, so far the changes are hurting, not helping, employee morale. -
Community organizers in State College are marking Juneteenth with a celebration this weekend that will include art, music, dancing, poetry and food. -
Sandy Township filed a civil complaint in the Court of Common Pleas in Clearfield County, on Thursday, asking for a delay in its planned merger with the City of DuBois in light of the criminal charges the DuBois manager is facing and questions about the city’s finances. -
Rural Pennsylvania is getting older, and the number of babies being born is going down. WPSU spoke with the Center for Rural Pennsylvania about this shift and whether enough people are moving into rural areas to make up for a shrinking population. -
Girls wrestling in Pennsylvania achieved a milestone Wednesday when the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association voted to sponsor the high school sport, opening the door to more opportunities for girls. -
Many school board races in Pennsylvania districts are competitive this year, and slates of candidates with very different viewpoints mean voters will have choices when they cast their ballot in Tuesday's primary. -
While fewer voters support mail-in voting than when it was first introduced in Pennsylvania in 2020, most voters are still confident their ballots will be counted correctly, according to a recent Franklin and Marshall College Poll.
