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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Tuition bills for Pennsylvanians who go to Penn State or one of the other state-related universities will come with a new detail this coming year: the students are getting a discount — thanks to the General Assembly. -
Penn State is planning to increase employees' salaries 2.5% percent, under a plan the board of trustees will vote on Friday. -
Penn State undergraduates whose families make $75,000 a year or less are slated to see their tuition stay the same in the upcoming year, while others will see their tuition increase 2% to 6%, under a plan the board of trustee’s finance committee approved Thursday morning. -
Pennsylvania's wild turkey population has been going down, after peaking in 2001, so to help find out why, the state Game Commission has outfitted about 100 hens with GPS transmitters as part of its largest turkey research project. -
A natural gas company in Clearfield County that had been "mining" for Bitcoin has stopped doing so for now, but operations at a site had already led to an information request from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
A whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former attorney at the University of Louisville alleges she was demoted and punished for reporting attempted extortion by an assistant basketball coach, and that she experienced pushback from then-President Neeli Bendapudi for doing so. -
The Bellefonte borough had eight electric vehicle charging stations set up, but the Centre County seat is now in the process of getting half of them repaired after a storm blew them out — again. -
Penn State plans to sell the Nittany Lion Inn and Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center and lease the land they're on to a company that already owns two hotels in State College. -
Bitcoin may seem like something out of Silicon Valley, but sometimes it comes from the rural woods of Pennsylvania, and when it does, it makes noise. Some residents near a natural gas site being used for cryptocurrency mining have found that out and want it to change. -
Like most high school students, Aneaus Smith has been navigating classes and life as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. A student in the State College Area School District's Delta Program, he recorded his thoughts about the pandemic over the past year for an audio diary of what it's been like.
