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Balu Completes WVIK Fellowship

Aaryan Balu hosting Morning Edition on WVIK Wednesday morning.
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Aaryan Balu hosting Morning Edition on WVIK Wednesday morning.

On Friday, we'll say good-bye to our latest WVIK Fellow, Aaryan Balu.

After graduating from the University of Virginia last spring, he came to work at WVIK in August. Since then he's hosted All Things Considered and Morning Edition, and covered everything from the economy and local libraries, to local housing issues and Birdies for Charity.

We're grateful for all his excellent work, and wish him great success.

Many thanks as well to the Communityworks Endowment at the Quad Cities Community Foundation for making this fellowship, and previous ones, possible. Previous WVIK Fellows now work in Chicago, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and New Orleans.

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A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois. While a graduate student in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield (then known as Sangamon State University), he got his first taste of public radio, covering Illinois state government for WUIS. Here in the Quad Cities, Herb worked for WHBF Radio before coming to WVIK in 1987. Herb also produces the weekly public affairs feature Midwest Week – covering the news behind the news by interviewing reporters about the stories they cover.