Nick Lippa
ReporterNick Lippa leads our Arts & Culture Coverage, and is also the lead reporter for the station's Mental Health Initiative, profiling the struggles and triumphs of those who battle mental health issues and the related stigma that can come from it.
He began his broadcasting career as a disc jockey for WBNY, the Buffalo State student-run radio station. He held multiple positions there including GM and Sports Director.
Nick was hired by Classical WNED and WBFO in July of 2016 after completing an internship for each earlier in the year.
Nick won a first place 2016 New York Associated Press Sports Feature Award for his story, "Old School Mentality on Hockey Head Injuries Slow to Change." He also contributed works to WBFO’s first place award for sports coverage for excellent staff reports that were submitted as "Buffalo Has Become a Hockey Heaven." At the beginning of 2017, Nick started working every weekend as an afternoon host.
Nick is 2016 graduate of Buffalo State with a B.A. in Music and Media Production and a minor in Digital Music Production.
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New York State Senators joined parents outside of a Williamsville school board meeting Tuesday night to voice their frustration over the current mask mandates. In June, Governor Cuomo announced school districts can allow students to remove masks outdoors. A guidance on mask use indoors still remains in place. -
Baseball fans who have been excited to see major league action in Buffalo could see the Blue Jays soon return home to Toronto. -
The Buffalo Sabres officially made last year’s interim coach Don Granato their permanent head coach this past week. The hire comes as the Sabres begin their offseason with much uncertainty. -
Two charter schools in Buffalo, Westminster and Enterprise, faced being closed permanently effective June 30. But a judge has blocked the Buffalo Board of Education, which authorizes both schools, for doing so for at least the 2021-22 school year. -
India Walton, a political newcomer and self-described socialist, appeared to claim an upset victory over longtime Buffalo mayor Byron Brown in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, setting her up to become the city’s first female mayor and the nation’s first socialist mayor in six decades. -
One of the biggest races to follow in Tuesday's primary is Buffalo’s mayoral campaign. Incumbent Byron Brown, who chose not to debate his challengers as he seeks a fifth term, had run a fairly quiet campaign until this last week. In the final days leading up to in-person voting at the polls on Election Day, wealthy donors contributed nearly $120,000 to Brown’s campaign. Challenger India Walton has generated a lot of attention herself over the past month, including a grassroots campaign that raised $50,000 in June. -
When the Kensington Expressway was built starting in 1958, many residents and community leaders say it divided a community once connected through a parkway. Now influential state legislators are jumping behind plans to redesign Route 33. -
Arts & CultureHiding in plain sight in downtown Buffalo is an 'interactive experiential learning center, art design and construction incubator.' What once was an… -
Arts & CultureThe pandemic prevented CEPA Gallery from getting people into their building in downtown Buffalo over the course of 2020. As a result, CEPA shifted its… -
Arts & CultureThe Kenan Center wears many hats as a small arts organization in Lockport. It’s home to a gallery, a theater, a Montessori School and recreation…
