Ryan Denham
Content DirectorRyan is an award-winning journalist and digital strategist. He joined WGLT full-time in 2017 as Digital Content Director and became interim Content Director at WCBU and WGLT in 2025.
Ryan has earned a National Murrow Award, a national Public Media Journalists Association award, several Regional Murrow Awards, and multiple Crystal Mic Awards from the Illinois News Broadcasters Association, among other station and team-based honors.
Ryan started his career as a copy editor and later business and city government reporter at The Pantagraph in 2006. He later worked for WJBC radio in Bloomington and for Illinois State's University Marketing and Communications [UMC] and Web and Interactive Communications [WEB] offices.
He lives in Normal with his wife, Therese, and two children. You can contact Ryan at rmdenha@ilstu.edu or (309) 438-5426.
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Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties are included in a winter weather advisory that lasts from 3 p.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service. The hazardous conditions could impact the Thursday evening commute. -
Authorities say a 54-year-old man has died from his self-inflicted gunshot wound during a “domestic situation” in Woodford County that left the man’s girlfriend seriously injured. -
Authorities are investigating a "domestic situation" in Woodford County on Saturday that sent two people to the hospital with gunshot wounds. -
Prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old babysitter with murder in connection with the death of an 18-month-old Peoria boy who showed signs of abuse. -
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The engineering team at WCBU is installing our new broadcast automation system — the engine under the hood that powers that mix of local journalism and NPR programming you enjoy every day. We think WCBU's new automation system will improve the quality and reliability of our broadcast. -
WCBU is making some changes to our events calendar and on-air announcements that we hope will make it easier for community groups to connect with our audience. -
One young person was killed and another was injured in a spate of shootings overnight on Peoria's south side. -
A 22-year-old woman was pronounced brain dead Sunday after being shot inside a Dunlap apartment — allegedly by the father of her children.
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Former Reditus Labs CEO Aaron Rossi faces new legal jeopardy Thursday as he returns to federal court, with prosecutors alleging he broke the terms of his bond by doing meth and violated an order by using confidential documents from his criminal case in a civil lawsuit.
