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City Limits Announces Two Additions to its Reporting Staff |
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Expands staff to support in-depth reporting on New York City housing issues– launches new beat focused exclusively on NYCHA. |
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Pictured: Emma Whitford and Tatyana Turner |
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Executive Editor Jeanmarie Evelly announced February 8th the hiring of two journalists:
Emma Whitford joins City Limits as senior housing reporter at the end of February. Whitford was most recently a senior reporter for Law360, where she covered housing and real estate, including reporting on New York housing courts and the state's handling of its pandemic rent relief program. Whitford was previously a reporter at Gothamist and has freelanced extensively, with bylines in the New York Daily News, The Intercept, Curbed, TIME, Documented NY and the Queens Daily Eagle. |
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Tatyana Turner is a journalist and Bronx native who will begin covering NYCHA on Feb. 13. Turner was most recently a breaking news and general assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where she covered the city's food and restaurant scene. Before that, she was a corps member with Report for America at the Baltimore Sun, where she reported on African American neighborhoods for the paper's "Black Life and Culture” beat. Turner is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied multimedia reporting and covered New York City public housing. |
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Executive Director Marjorie Martay said, “We’re thrilled to have these talented journalists join the amazing City Limits team.”
Send story ideas and tips to:
Emma Whitford, senior housing reporter: [email protected]
Tatyana Turner, NYCHA reporter: [email protected]
Founded in 1976, City Limits provides in-depth, investigative coverage of city policy with a focus on housing, homelessness, land use, climate resiliency and more. In addition to award-winning reporting, City Limits has since 2015 operated CLARIFY, a paid journalism training program for New York City high school students. The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by reader donations, ads, and foundations including support by New York Community Trust, Trinity Church Wall Street, Neighborhoods First Fund, Revson Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, and Google News Initiative. |
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