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Marianna Bacallao Marianna Bacallao is WVIK Quad Cities NPR's 2020-2021 Fellowship Host/Reporter. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism and served as Editor-in-Chief for the student newspaper, The Cluster. After interning with Georgia Public Broadcasting in 2018, she was selected as a 2019 John M. Couric Fellowship Reporter at GPB, where she contributed to the statewide newscast. She was a spring 2020 intern, helping produce GPB's daily news talk show, Political Rewind. She also had the pleasure of interning with The Macon Telegraph and CBS...

Headshot of Kenya Young at the NPR offices in Washington, DC. In a note to newsroom staff Senior Vice President of News and Editorial Director Nancy Barnes announced this staffing update: I am delighted to share the news that Kenya Young, the outstanding executive producer of Morning Edition, will be promoted to Managing Editor for Collaborative Journalism, effective June 1. Kenya emerged as the top candidate for this position after an extensive external and internal search. She fills the leadership position vacated by Chris Turpin, and will be responsible for helping me with our outreach to...

HamTECH solutions and Skullz are both web-based small businesses, but neither was prepared for a pandemic Author: Amyre Makupson Updated: 10:05 AM EST February 22, 2021 MACON, Ga. — With social distancing and shelter in place mandates happening throughout the pandemic, you may think that COVID-19 is a time for tech companies to thrive, but that's not necessarily the case. Through our partnership with Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism, Amyre Makupson shows us two Central Georgia tech start-ups, that refused to let a global pandemic put a ...

The staff of The Cluster, the independent student-run newspaper at Mercer University, won nine awards at the Georgia College Press Association Better Newspaper Contest Friday. The Cluster participates in the contest each year. Its staff competes among the largest student newspapers in the state, including Georgia State University’s The Signal, the Georgia Institute of Technology’s The Technique and the University of Georgia’s Red & Black. Editor-in-Chief Emily Rose Thorne, a senior, won first place in the Best News Article – Objective category for reporting on bullying that bisexual s...

Black History in the Making: Bibb teen brings message of equality through music 17-years-old Christopher Timothy is an artist performing under the name Prxphecy – using his lyrics to push conversations about race and inequality. Author: Amyre Makupson Updated: 7:25 AM EST February 17, 2021 MACON, Ga. — In honor of Black history month, we're highlighting some future Black history icons in the making. Through our partnership with Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism, Amyre Makupson introduces us to a young poet and hip hop artist using his...