Mike Tobias
Senior Producer,
Mike Tobias has produced a wide range of engaging stories, documentaries and projects since joining Nebraska Public Media in 2000. His content for television, radio and digital distribution has earned dozens of awards, including three regional Emmys, and aired nationally on PBS and NPR programs. Among other projects, Tobias currently hosts and produces a series on innovation and creativity in Nebraska, “What If…”
Recent News Stories
- Veterans reflect on impacts of fighting in Vietnam
- Sold for sex for 10 years, starting at age 6
- College class discussion shows the complexity of death penalty issue
- Riley talks about season two as Husker football coach
- Bumping and baby judging; but no light-fingered gentry…the 1916 Nebraska State Fair
- Campaigns intensifying for, against the death penalty in Nebraska
- Report provides victim's perspective on sex trafficking
- Nebraska’s small-town rodeo culture captured in new book
- Long-Term Nebraska Economic Forecast: Construction Stronger, Agriculture Weaker
- A Nebraskan climbed Mount Everest…and it almost killed him
- Sex Trafficking Happens in Nebraska's Smaller Towns
- Eyeing Everest
- What positive mid-decade census numbers mean for Nebraska
- Nebraska Guard Soldiers reflect on Operation Desert Storm, 25 years later
- Green Named UNL Chancellor
- What one school is doing to get girls interested in computer science
- State of the Union themes prominent in President's UNO speech
- Growing interest in golf, the way it was played a century ago
- A trip to “the jungle:" the story of two homeless couples who live by the Missouri River
- New Census Estimates: Nebraska Growth Steady, Positive For Keeping Three House Seats in 2020
- Rapid program growth for Nebraska libraries
- Nebraska libraries: how they’re doing, challenges and opportunities
- Reversing the monarch butterfly decline in Nebraska
- "All Hell Can't Stop Us": Nebraska Soldiers Fight One of the Bloodiest Battles of World War II
- Fighting Sex Trafficking in Nebraska: What’s Lacking and a New Plan
Recent Media Contributions
- What If...: Innovator Insights Erica Wassinger
- What If...: Biomechanics, kid composer, growing Ord, church remodeling
- What If...: Cattle FitBit, med school tech, workplace culture, Growing Great
- What If...: Innovator Insights Connie Reimers-Hild
- What If...: Innovator Insights Bob Stowell
- What If...: Innovator Insights Caleb Pollard
- What If...: Innovator Insights Pam Boyers
- What If...: Innovator Insights Nancy Williams
- What If...: Innovator Insights Nick Stergiou
- What If...: Innovator Insights Vishal Singh
- What If...: Innovator Insights Dusty Davidson
- Nebraska Stories: Winston, Kid Composer
- Nebraska Stories: William, Luther and Cody
- Nebraska Stories: Newton's Apple Tree
- Nebraska Stories: Sally Bard's War Stories
- News: Growing Great Beginnings
- Nebraska Stories: Last Shot for The Royals
- Speaking of Nebraska: Jobs
- Speaking of Nebraska: Homelessness
- Speaking of Nebraska: College Athletics
- Last Shot for the Royals
- Speaking of Nebraska: University of Nebraska
- Speaking of Nebraska: Hunger in Nebraska
- Speaking of Nebraska: National Guard
- Speaking of Nebraska: Human trafficking