Covers
- Yates County
- Penn Yan
- community stories
- local arts
- breaking news
- regional Finger Lakes coverage
At FLDN since
Summer 2025
Years in journalism
1
About Kalysta
Kalysta Donaghy-Robinson is a multimedia news reporter for FLX Local Media. Reporting from the Geneva studios, she covers breaking news and the stories shaping communities across the Finger Lakes for Finger Lakes News Radio and FingerLakesDailyNews.com. She also delivers local news each weekday morning on WNYR and Classic Hits.
A 2025 graduate of Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications, she earned her B.A. in Journalism and English with a minor in Art. As an undergraduate she worked at The Ithacan, the student newspaper, where she rose from staff writer and photographer to assistant photo editor and then head photo editor, and served as editor of the paper's annual 152-page Year in Review magazine. She also completed a creative-writing study-abroad program in Ireland.
Expertise
Reporting, photojournalism, and digital storytelling for a small Finger Lakes community — trained in the journalism program at Ithaca College and the photo desk of The Ithacan.
Education
- B.A., Journalism and English (minor in Art), Ithaca College, Roy H. Park School of Communications, 2025
Latest stories by Kalysta Donaghy-Robinson
New York Adds Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway to Scenic System
Geneva Strawberry Festival Returns Next Week
Geneva Secures More Than $12M for Lead Pipe Replacement
Beverly Animal Shelter Announces September Reopening
Hochul Announces Emergency Preparedness Funding for Finger Lakes Counties
Summer Programming Returns to Seward House Museum
Former Auburn School Leader Selected As Next Onondaga Superintendent
Life-Sized Dinosaur Sculpture Installed at Ithaca Museum
Two Teens Charged After Fires Set Inside Former Butler Prison
Trial Looms in Finger Lakes Drive-In, Cayuga Nation Land Dispute