Emily Hofstaedter
General Assignment ReporterEmily is a general assignment news reporter for WYPR.
Emily began her journalism radio career nestled out on the tundra and on the shores of the sea ice in Nome, Alaska. Out there she covered everything from dog sled racing (mushing), climate change and Indigenous sovereignty. The work she did with her news team covering mishandled sexual assaults has won awards from the Alaska Press Club and led to an update in the Alaska consent statute.
In Alaska she met her now husband, and the two of them ended up in America’s Greatest City! She then spent a year working as a Ben Bagdikian Fellow for Mother Jones magazine doing research and fact-checking while she reported on issues ranging from labor politics, environmental justice and religion.
Emily originally hails from just up the Susquehanna River in Lancaster, PA and so the Chesapeake watershed has always been her home. When she isn’t reporting you might catch her performing with a local theatre troupe, writing poetry or hiking Maryland’s glorious range of trails.
Send her news tips at [email protected] or on Twitter @ehofstaedter!
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The Red Line is unaffected, for now. -
The Maryland General Assembly unanimously passed The Pava LaPere Act into law earlier this year. It prohibits automatic good time credits for people with first degree sex offense convictions. -
The rally went on despite extreme temperatures, organizers say that’s nothing compared to what sanitation workers experience on the back of a truck. -
Maryland’s highest court upholds decisions by Baltimore City Circuit Court -
On Wednesday, the city plans to have workers begin their routes early in the day to avoid the heat and have supervisors call crews back in if conditions become unsafe. -
Billingsley is also accused of murdering local tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere days later and is due to stand trial in that case on Friday. -
“We should not be sitting here because somebody passed away… We should be ashamed of ourselves.” -
Some local municipalities are getting proactive when it comes to setting heat policies. -
Baltimore City Council is set to hold hearings to examine work conditions at the Department of Public Works following the death of employee Ronald Silver ll on August 2, 2024. -
“This is not an anti-landlord bill. It’s an anti-slumlord bill.”
