WICB NEWS
I attended my first WICB news meeting during my junior year and fell in love with recording audio newscasts. I mainly produced news packages for Ithaca Now, which aired live on Sunday nights and was then published online. The newscasts I produced often focused on individual stories and their impact on communities. In May 2020, two of my stories were selected by my editors as among the five best newscasts of the semester.
Women-Run Nonprofit Overcomes Funding Obstacles Despite Adverse Media Coverage
In my second piece covering the capital shortage facing local nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic, I spoke with Ryan Harriott, who is the executive director of the Women’s Opportunity Center. Harriott spoke about how about how her organization has helped women in need during the pandemic, overcame funding obstacles and how Ithaca news outlets actually got the story wrong.
Pandemic Causes Funding Struggle for Local Non-Profits
The pandemic’s economic effects are nothing to shake off - especially for small nonprofits. I spoke with Ben Sandberg, the director of the Tompkins County Center for History and Culture, about the struggles his and other local non-profits have faced while searching for revenue to continue providing services to their community and keep their doors open.
'America Street' Premiere Shows Struggles With Racism
In Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s new feature-length documentary “America Street,” Joe (pictured) is the owner of a small corner store in Charleston, South Carolina, the heart of an old but slowly disappearing black community. Mora-Kpia’s film is described as an elegiac tone poem about broken dreams, disrupted lives, love of community and voices bearing witness to collective identity.
Upstate Colleges Face Reopening Success, Failures, and In-Betweens
| Ithaca Now — September 20th, 2020
Schools opening again isn’t on the horizon anymore. For some universities and colleges they’ve already been open for almost a month now. We’ve seen success stories, and we’ve seen failures as well. WICB Correspondents Madolyn Laurine, Rebecca Legato and Kyle DeSantis looked into what’s going on in these places, and what people think now that they’re in it. I was the host of this episode.
