Prisoncast! employs innovative, collaborative engaged journalism tactics to reach and serve a vulnerable, oft-forgotten audience with super creative, highly produced audio journalism.

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Prisoncast! September 2023 Broadcast

Prisoncast! employs innovative, collaborative engaged journalism tactics to reach and serve a vulnerable, oft-forgotten audience with super creative, highly-produced audio journalism. 

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Prisoncast! September 2023 Short Broadcast

Chicago's Migrant Crisis - PMJA Submission

Chicago's Migrant Crisis - New America Award Submission

"How I Support Democracy" audio series
Mariah Woelfel
WBEZ Chicago

"How I Support Democracy" Series

Chicago is closing its biggest tent city but comes up short on promised apartments: The people left out include Porfirio and Melissa, a homeless couple recovering from addiction. To survive winter, they’re relying on each other.
Broadcast 12/4/24
Chip Mitchell, reporter
Patrick Smith, audio editor

Chicago is closing its biggest tent city but comes up short on promised apartments

The relatively poor South American country has received four times more Venezuelans than the United States but offers a path to integration. We went to see it.
Broadcast: June 16-18, 2024
Chip Mitchell, lead reporter
Patrick Smith, audio editor
Kate Grossman, lead editor

Learning how to manage a migrant wave

Chicago migrants are under pressure as the deadline to find permanent housing looms
Broadcast: 02/06/2024

Migrants in Chicago file complaints about hostile treatment across city shelters
Broadcast: 03/01/2024

Organizers try to calm chaos at a South Side Home Depot where migrants look for work
Broadcast: 10/7/2024

Migrants in Chicago

For-profit education programs in Illinois often leave students worse off than if they hadn’t gone to college at all 
by Lisa Kurian Philip, Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, Amy Qin, Alex Keefe and Steven Arroyo, edited by Natalie Moore 

Students at Illinois’ for-profits colleges often leave worse off than when they started 
Broadcast: 06/27/2024

For-profit cosmetology graduates rarely earn more than high school grads 
Broadcast: 06/28/2024


For-profit education programs in Illinois often leave students worse off

From the space race to a consent decree: the history of selective enrollment in Chicago schools
Broadcast: 03/28/2024

Chicago’s most marginalized students have almost no shot of getting into CPS’ elite schools
Broadcast: 07/09/2024

Chicago’s selective enrollment schools

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WBEZ serves the public interest by producing and delivering diverse, compelling content of multiple viewpoints and expression. We act as the circuit that connects residents of our region to one another, to the nation, and to the world in a relevant and evocative way. We are a regional resource fostering full and active citizenship by creating connections and remaining present and involved broadly in community life.

Chicago’s selective enrollment schools

WBEZ Award Submissions

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