Kalysta Donaghy-Robinson

Finger Lakes Daily News

Kalysta Donaghy-Robinson

Multimedia News Reporter · Geneva, NY

Multimedia news reporter at FLX Local Media covering the Finger Lakes for Finger Lakes News Radio and FingerLakesDailyNews.com.

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

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