INDIANAPOLIS — Sia Nyorkor is an Emmy and award-winning journalist who brings more than 20 years of experience working on television, radio, documentary, digital, social and OTT platforms.
Sia joined 13News in 2024 as a Multi-Skilled Journalist and reports for Sunrise Monday through Friday.
A native of Indianapolis, Sia is an alum of Little People’s Prep, St. Lawrence Catholic School and Bishop Chatard High School.
She is thrilled to be home where she can spend time with family and cheer on her beloved HOOSIERS!
Before joining 13News, Sia was Weekend Anchor and Multimedia Reporter at WOIO-TV, the CBS News affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sia got her start in the industry working behind the scenes at New Jersey Public & Radio and has also reported for CBS News affiliates in Wichita, Kan. and Gainesville, Fla.
After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Sia and 3 other journalists at WOIO-TV created the award-winning series “The Next 400.” The stories took a “deeper dive” into topics like systemic racism, housing discrimination, policing, education, social justice, public health, contemporary life and more. The stories also offered ideas and solutions on how the next 400 years could and should look like for society.
In 2021 & 2022, Sia’s series of reports “The Next 400: #DefendBlackWomen” & “The Next 400: Digging into the Tangled Roots of Black Hair Culture” received national recognition with Gracie Awards from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation.
In 2024, Sia received a first-place Press Club of Cleveland award for “19 Troubleshooters Get Results: The Road to Fix a Dangerous Exit Ramp.” Her series of reports showed how city and state officials finally took action after multiple car crashes into several Cleveland houses for more than four decades.
Sia and her reports have been featured on national shows such as TV One's "Fatal Attraction," Oxygen's "Snapped," "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" and the Investigation Discovery channel.
Sia holds a Bachelor of Arts Journalism from Indiana University's Ernie Pyle School of Journalism and a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in the City of New York. Her master's thesis was an award-winning documentary film about a Harlem muralist that broadcast on public television stations across the nation.
Active with the National Association of Black Journalists, Sia serves at the local and national level and is a mentor to young, aspiring journalists. She is also a member of the public service sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
She says the most common question she receives is about her name, which hails from Liberia, West Africa. Sia means "first daughter of the father" and Nyorkor means "fierce warrior" in her father's tribe, Kissi.
A novice shutterbug, Sia enjoys volunteering, exploring new places, listening to live music, cooking, reading and meeting new people.