Award-winning journalist Tricia Sloma, an anchor and reporter at WNDU television in South Bend, has earned numerous state and national honors in her over 30-year broadcasting career.

The co-anchor of 16 Morning News Now was named the 2020 Journalist of the Year from the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists for Never Again: Preventing Bus Stop Tragedies. These extensive reports by Sloma and her team at WNDU led to important changes in school bus safety laws in Indiana.                       

Sloma’s Never Again reports earned a coveted Edward R. Murrow Award and National Association of Broadcasters Service to America Award. The Indiana Broadcasters Association presented WNDU with a Cardinal Community Service Award and Spectrum Award. The series was nominated for an Emmy in 2019.

WNDU hired Sloma in 1993 as a reporter and shortly after, she became the anchor of WNDU’s morning show, a position she still holds to this day. A seven-time Emmy nominee, Sloma won the Emmy for current affairs programming in 2018 for an in-depth report on child abuse.

Her television career began as a production assistant and reporter for the nationally syndicated agricultural news program, AgDay, produced by WNDU-TV.

In 2024, Sloma was entrusted by the Knute Rockne family to be the sole media member invited to cover the re-internment of Coach Rockne and his relatives at Cedar Grove Cemetery at Notre Dame. It was a special assignment for Sloma, a native of Kenyon, Ohio, the hometown of Bonnie Skiles Rockne.

Also last year, Sloma served as the executive producer and host of Knute Rockne and a Century of Champions. In this one-hour documentary, Sloma and her team detail the events of 1924 that put Notre Dame football on a path to national prominence that Irish fans celebrate to this day. The documentary also features stories of the national championship coaches that followed Rockne at the University of Notre Dame: Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine, and Lou Holtz. 

Knute Rockne and a Century of Champions has been honored with the prestigious 2025 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and was recently submitted for Emmy consideration. 

Sloma is passionate about helping children succeed. She hosts a weekly segment on WNDU that helps place foster children with adoptive families. Education and health stories are also her frequent assignments.

Tricia and her husband Tom have two grown daughters. Gardening, travel, art and outdoor activities are Sloma’s favorite hobbies.