Stephanie Wolf

‘A Critical Moment’ wins regional Murrow and EWA awards

June 2, 2023

"A Critical Moment," a Louisville Public Media news documentary co-reported by Stephanie Wolf and LPM education reporter Jess Clark, won a national Education Writers Association Award for “Best in Audio Storytelling/Small Newsroom.” The documentary was also awarded a 2023 regional Murrow Award in May for “Best News Documentary.”

‘A Critical Moment’ wins 2023 RIAS Media Prize

Feb. 27, 2023

"A Critical Moment” has won the 2023 RIAS Media Prize for “Best Radio Story.” The RIAS German-American exchange program honors the best of transatlantic broadcast journalismsubmitted from U.S. and German journalists each year. The documentary is among a prestigious list of awardees, which includes CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who won the grand prize for his film “Never Again.” More on the winners here.

‘A Critical Moment’ featured in Memory Wars podcast feed

Nov. 17, 2022

“A Critical Moment,” co-reported by Stephanie and Louisville Public Media education reporter Jess Clark, is an hourlong radio documentary examining how the U.S. and Germany teach about their painful histories and why. Stephanie and Jess collaborated with Radio IQ reporter Mallory Noe-Payne, whose podcast “Memory Wars” also tackles questions about how a society reckons with past atrocities.

The three spoke about how their reporting, and Noe-Payne featured the documentary in a special episode of “Memory Wars.”

WKU’s Mountain Workshops

Oct. 18 - 23, 2022

Stephanie participated in the still photography program of Western Kentucky University’s Mountain Workshops, spending a week in Grayson County documenting a family’s life. Her visual story will be published in the program’s book, and a selection of participant photography is on display through Feb. 17, 2023 at WKU’s Gallery in Jody Richards Hall. The exhibition is called “A Community Devoted: Leitchfield, Grayson County.” The book is expected out in fall 2023.

ICFJ 2021 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship

Aug. 1 - Sept. 30, 2021

Stephanie was selected as one of the North American fellows for the International Center for Journalists’ Arthur F. Burns fellowship program. During the program, she was based in Berlin, working with the news podcast Common Ground, as well as filing stories for her home station, Louisville Public Media in Kentucky.

Moving to Kentucky to join Louisville Public Media

March 23, 2020.

Stephanie left Colorado Public Radio after six years and moved to Louisville, Ky to be the arts reporter for NPR member station Louisville Public Media/WFPL News.

RIAS Berlin Kommission 2019 Alumni Program

Nov. 5 - 11, 2019

Stephanie was one of 30 U.S. journalists invited to Berlin for a week of lectures and events around the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. She reported and produced a story on a Denver artist reflecting on her contributions to the East Side Gallery.

The Assembly’s “How to draw an outline”

Sept. 12, 2019

Southern California-based dance group The Assembly premiered an evening-length work by Lara Wilson at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, California.

Stephanie designed, compiled and mixed the score for the dance, which explored boundaries.

RIAS Berlin Kommission Fellowship

Sept. 17 - Oct. 6, 2017

One of 14 journalists selected to participate in a three-week fellowship and study program. We visited the European Commission and NATO in Brussels and spent the majority of the program in Berlin. I also spent a week with Deutsche Welle's Berlin bureau. 

Making The Mountain

Nov. 6, 2015

Stephanie was a guest speaker for "Making the Mountain," a quarterly artist talk held in partnership with Lighthouse Writer's Workshop. Listen to the podcast here. 

Colorado Public Radio's Arts Bureau presents "Radio Dances"

March 4, 2014

Throughout February, CPR's Arts Bureau has been collecting 30- to 60-second radio dances. The project, inspired by NPR radio personality Ira Glass' touring show, "One Radio Host, Two Dancers," conceptualizes dance for a radio audience. It's an experiment that explores the aural textures of dance. It's a first for CPR, and sparking the creativity of Colorado's diverse dance artists.

Stephanie helped spearhead the project, including components like curating the live event, editing web features, coordinating a video shoot at the CPR Performance Studio and helping pull together the pieces for an interview with Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass -- asking them, "Can dance work on the airwaves?"

Dance Informa interview: Coping with dance injuries

March 5, 2013

An injury can be a devastating blow to a dancer's career. The healing process, both mentally and physically, can be challenging. Stephanie spoke about her own recovery from a severe injury to Dance Informa contributing journalist Leah Gerstenlaur, sharing her story about loosing her physical mobility and redefining herself as an artist.

"Stephanie, whose injury has fueled her double-pronged career in dance and writing, is taking her own notes on self-empowerment, and learning that personal limits are not equivalent to insurmountable faults."

Read the full article on DanceInforma.us. 

Featured in Dance Magazine 

February 9, 2013

Stephanie was one of four dancers interviewed by Dance Magazine journalist Lauren Kay for an article about having a successful dance career outside of New York City.  The article, titled "Escaping New York: four dancers' success stories," appeared only in print in the March 2013 issue.