In 2018, I moved to Pittsburgh to work as a government & accountability reporter at WESA, Pittsburgh’s NPR News station. I later became one of the newsroom’s editors.
Editing
I edited daily radio newscasts, audio features, and digital stories for wesa.fm.
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The best place to put rabies vaccine bait is where raccoons will find it, but pets and humans won’t. That’s why Lori Horowitz steered clear of the dumpster behind a Natrona Heights apartment building, and instead tossed several pieces of vaccine bait over a fence into a copse of trees.
This story was reported by Sarah Boden, and edited by Lucy Perkins
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On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four airplanes with plans to strike prominent American buildings and cause mass casualties.
Cockpit recordings later revealed that the 40 passengers and crew members on the final commercial plane — United Flight 93 — fought back against the four terrorists. The plane crashed upside-down in a field just outside of Shanksville, Pa.
A park memorializing those 40 people now lives on the grounds where the plane crash-landed. Its centerpiece is the Tower of Voices.
This story was reported and produced by Kiley Kosinski and edited by Lucy Perkins.
It was broadcast on September 10, 2021. Listen here.
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More Pittsburgh households now rent than own their homes, and landlords control a growing share of the housing market countywide. COVID-19 is testing the health of this market, bringing eviction curbs, rent relief and a revived tenants’ rights movement. PublicSource and WESA explored these changes and examined the governmental and civic responses to the emergence of Tenant Cities.
This story was reported by Kate Giammarise and Rich Lord. It was produced for broadcast by Kate Giammarise and Lucy Perkins. It was edited for broadcast by Lucy Perkins. Listen here.
Reporting
I reported and produced daily radio newscasts, audio features and long-term series, including a 2018 series that won the national Edward R. Murrow award for Best News Series in a Large Radio Market.
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Before Roe v. Wade, abortion was illegal in Pennsylvania. But local doctors and hospitals used a legal loophole to provide the procedure.
This is part 2 of a 4 part series on abortion rights in Pennsylvania. It won the 2018 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Series in a Large Radio Market.
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Split Ticket was a yearlong series that followed four Western Pennsylvania voters throughout the 2020 election cycle.
In this piece, I talked with voters about their media habits. One voter, Mary, realized during our interview (on tape) that one of her trusted news sources wasn’t credible.
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As a government & accountability reporter in 2020, I was tasked with explaining how the presidential primary would work under a brand new mail-in voting law amid COVID-19 lockdowns.
This piece is representative of my reporting in 2020. Many voters were concerned about limited in-person voting or that their mail-in ballots wouldn’t arrive in time. My reporting answered those questions. I also spent a lot of time personally answering questions that listeners emailed us about ahead of the election.