Kabir Bhatia
Senior Reporter/ProducerExpertise: Arts, culture, history, technology
Education: Hudson High School
Case Western Reserve University
Kent State University - Master of Arts
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Geauga Lake (until 2007); CVNP (2008-present)
Experience:
Kabir Bhatia joined WKSU in 2010 and has been a senior arts & culture reporter since 2022. Prior to that, he was a student employee at the station and also worked in Cleveland and Chicago in print, radio and television.
Highlights:
- 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award (Region 7), Excellence in Sound - "Unspooling Cleveland鈥檚 industrial film and musical history"
- 2023 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Arts/Entertainment Reporting - 鈥淎kron Civic's BOOM! Theater drops the mic on aging鈥�
- 2022 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Reporter
- 2021 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Feature Reporting
- 2020 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors, Best Sports Feature - 鈥淐leveland Might Never Get Another NHL Franchise. OH Really?鈥�
- 2019 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Consumer Reporting - "With Amazon Looming, What Is the Future of Retail in Akron?"
- 2018 Press Club of Cleveland, Best Use of Sound - 鈥淭he Dragon Invasion of Turkeyfoot Lake Could Net About $20,000 For Breast Cancer Awareness鈥�
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The historic venue, built for the city's school system, now hosts a variety of acts after a $1.5 million renovation. -
Northeast Ohio鈥檚 love for art, books and restaurants is on view through May 30 -
Visit an indie bookshop or two or, express your love for the King of Pop or enjoy a concert about mental health this weekend. -
This weekend, the Stark County company offers two days of shows drawing on its past and present. -
After tripling the award to authors in recent years, the four winners now get $30,000. -
Once occupying the corner of South High and East Bowery streets in Downtown Akron, the Akron Armory was the city鈥檚 epicenter of entertainment for decades.
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The 50th festival is trying a split-venue format that goes back to CIFF's original home, from 1977-90. -
Phil Collins, Iron Maiden and six other acts will be inducted Nov. 14 in Los Angeles. -
The land on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive was secured in 1977 but ground was broken on the final phase Thursday. -
Re-Present Media said it will not present a panel on consent, in solidarity with Shakira Refos, CIFF's outgoing head of programs. She alleges verbal and emotional abuse in the workplace from CIFF Executive Director Hermione Malone.
