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
Owasco Lake Watershed Official Backs Packaging Reduction Bill
Camp Bristol Hills Adds Three-Day Sampler Camp
Town of Geneva Contributing to City Fireworks Celebration
Child and Family Resources Returns to Geneva
Ithaca Man Charged With Murder After Cayuga Heights Stabbing
New Auburn Exhibit Highlights Cayuga Nation Displacement
Protesters Rally at Geneva City Hall Over ICE Arrests
Rochester Man Accused of Posing as Driving Instructor to Assault Teen
State Surpasses April Pothole Repair Goal
New Immigration Exhibit To Open At Seward House Museum