Noelle E. C. Evans
Education reporter/producerNoelle E. C. Evans is WXXI's Murrow Award-winning Education reporter/producer. She took on the role in 2022 after two-and-a-half years on general assignment.
In her tenure as Education reporter, Noelle has been awarded 2023 National and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Diversity Equity and Inclusion, a 2023 PMJA Award for News Feature, and a 2022 JANY Runner-up Award for Enterprise Reporting.
Her background in documentary filmmaking shapes her storytelling; her experience in education informs her on-the-ground human interest approach to news features.
Noelle's first newsroom position was in Quito, Ecuador, where she worked for a multi-national Latin American media organization. There she developed a nuanced understanding of the role of freedom of the press in democracy. She also sharpened her Spanish language skills (conversational, not yet fluent).
In 2016, Noelle was named a BBC Grace Wyndham Goldie scholar. While living in Cardiff, Wales, she worked with BBC Radio Wales and the BBC World Service. She received her master's degree in international journalism from Cardiff University, one of the top 10 ranking journalism schools in the U.K. Noelle was awarded the university’s USA Excellence Scholarship.
She freelances for NPR and BBC with a particular focus on Indigenous affairs and environment reporting. Her career began as an intern at WXXI in 2014 under the leadership of News Director Randy Gorbman.
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The museum is turning to Sign-Speak, an emerging, locally developed artificial intelligence platform providing on-demand speech to sign, sign to text and speech to text interpretation. -
Colleges are preparing the next generation of teachers to manage artificial intelligence in the classroom, and at Nazareth University, that includes ways to use AI for teaching English to language learners. -
The city of Rochester is halting solar energy projects it had sought to pursue this year amid federal changes to renewable energy tax credits. -
Members of the Rochester city school board are calling on the state comptroller's office to investigate alleged “pervasive financial mismanagement” regarding payroll mishaps with the human resources software Oracle. -
Universities and community colleges in the SUNY system will be balloon-free this school year. -
The Town of Penfield is seeking community input on a plan to improve the design of roads and paths for safer conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. -
The first day of school is next week and with it comes a new statewide ban on cellphones and internet-enabled devices. Local Rochester students and teachers have different outlooks on how the school year will go. -
When kids face challenges, they can get all kinds of therapeutic interventions at school and at home. And ahead of the upcoming school year, educators and parents are calling for a more playful approach to helping children address hardship. -
How can play improve learning? That is a question the Healthi Kids Coalition explored Wednesday at the Playful Learning Summit at the Memorial Art Gallery. -
The head of SUNY Brockport is stepping down after this academic year.
