Allie Vugrincic
Multi Media ReporterAllie Vugrincic has been a radio reporter at 星空无限传媒 89.7 NPR News since March 2023 and has been the station's mid-day radio host since January 2025.
She came to Columbus from her hometown of Warren, Ohio, where she was a reporter and photographer for The Tribune Chronicle and Vindicator newspapers. She formally began her newspaper career on Nov. 26, 2018, the day that General Motors announced it was idling its nearby auto production plant in Lordstown. Allie came in to sign paperwork, but stayed to write a story about electric vehicles after a co-worker showed her how to sign onto her computer and use the office phone.
During her four years at the newspaper, Allie covered everything from local government to crime, storm damage, festivals, homelessness counts, maple syrup season (twice) and one ill-fated tree-trimming truck that flipped onto a house. Her favorite photography assignment was joining U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg when he came to view the wreckage of the East Palestine train derailment in February 2023.
At 星空无限传媒, Allie primarily focuses on long-form local radio stories and has particular enthusiasm for education, the environment, the housing crisis and issues that impact the arts. She also enjoys her time on the air as a fill-in host for All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
Allie graduated from Denison University with a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in cinema.
She also holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from University College Cork in Ireland. There, her favorite pastime was 鈥渃astlehunting,鈥� or searching for ruins of castles and monasteries and visiting ancient sites, usually on her trusty bicycle. Several of Allie鈥檚 poems have been published in Irish literary journals, but she would prefer you didn't read them.
Passionate about all forms of storytelling, Allie has dabbled in community theatre, and she still helps out on friends鈥� film sets when she finds the time.
Allie has been recognized by the Ohio APME and the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for her education reporting, featuring writing and explanatory stories. She shared a first-place honor for spot news with her 星空无限传媒 colleague, George Shillcock, for their combined coverage of the fatal 2023 Tusky Valley Schools bus crash in Licking County.
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A 12-year-old girl was reported missing on July 16. On July 21, the girl was a passenger in a vehicle that police stopped, but they let her leave the scene. -
Ohio's biennial budget will leave Mid-Ohio Food Collective with about $3 million less in food on its shelves over the next two years. The food bank will also get less federal assistance. -
The County Auditor Association of Ohio recently proposed several solutions to provide property owners some relief from the state's rising property taxes. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentMany of Ohio's rural hospitals are barely breaking even. Now, new Medicaid changes could mean a major loss of income. -
Jim Jordan is set to be deposed on Friday in Washington, D.C., for a civil lawsuit against Ohio State University by victims of Dr. Richard Strauss. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentColumbus Zoo staff knew the zoo鈥檚 male lion, Roary, and one of the lionesses, Asali, did not get along. Staff believe one of the lions damaged a door between their enclosures overnight. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentThe Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District restored a stream in a Jefferson Township neighborhood to help prevent flooding near houses and better capture pollutants. -
A Texas-based student housing developer wants to demolish The Little Bar at 2195 N. High St. to make way for a 9-story apartment tower with more than 800 beds. -
Broad Street Presbyterian Food Pantry Director Kathy Kelly-Long believes need will increase if the program is cut back, and she said food pantries can't keep up. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentA Columbus couple's nonprofit, This Must Be The Place, has distributed more than 100,000 overdose-reversing naloxone kits.
