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
- “They don't think it's there”: Homelessness not just an urban problem in Nebraska
- The Circle C in tiny Cody calls itself “more than a store” and here's why
- New research provides important information on Nebraska’s commercial sex industry and trafficking
- A business fighting trafficking in India, and its connection to Creighton University
- 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
Recent Media Contributions
- What If...: Experimental Music
- What If...: Storm Chasing
- What If...: Innovator Insights Brugger Brothers
- What If...: Innovator Insights Cydney Franklin
- What If...: Innovator Insights Scott Pretzer
- What If...: Innovator Insights Sarah Hardin
- What If...: Innovator Insights Tina Diaz-Ciechomski
- What If...: Innovator Insights Cassie Lapaseotes
- What If...: Innovator Insights Garry Clark
- What If...: Innovator Insights Jeff Slobotski
- What If...: Innovator Insights Mailani Veney
- What If...: Innovator Insights Stacey Barelos
- What If...: Innovator Insights Sarah Spitsen
- What If...: Innovator Insights On the Go Gelato
- What If...: Innovator Insights Ben Blecha
- What If...: Tom Field on Entrepreneurs
- What If...: Entrepreneurs Panel
- Nebraska Stories: Coffee, Bikes, & Bright Futures
- Beating Diabetes
- Nebraska Stories: The Boys from the Barrio
- Beating Diabetes: Ponca Tribe Diabetes Program
- Beating Diabetes: Marathon Kids
- Nebraska Stories: A New Life for Old Paintings
- Nebraska Stories: One Fast Dude
- Nebraska Stories: Costume Play