
Andrea Appleton
Andrea no longer works for On The Record.
Andrea Appleton is a producer for On The Record. She comes to WYPR with years of experience as a freelance journalist filing stories for newspapers, magazines, and public radio. She has reported on topics ranging from bull riding to bionic fish, with an emphasis on science. She is also former senior editor of the Baltimore City Paper, and a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism.
She and her husband live in Baltimore with their two young sons.
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Do classical musicians have a role to play in advancing social justice? We talk to composer Judah Adashi, who is on the faculty of the Peabody Institute.…
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Ellicott City’s historic Main Street reopened yesterday. It’s been closed since flooding devastated the area in July. One of the challenges property…
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Frank Harris III, a journalism professor at Southern Connecticut State University, traveled the country talking to people of all different backgrounds…
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The Justice Department’s critique of the Baltimore Police Department accused city police of systematically under-investigating reports of sexual assault:…
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The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African-American History and Culture exhibits a stone once used as a slave auction block in Hagerstown. We…
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Not long ago, civil rights activist Laura W. Murphy discovered a bundle of papers tied with a ribbon. They turned out to be letters between her…
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The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African-American History and Culture is exhibiting a stone once used as a slave auction block in Hagerstown. We…
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The young adult novel “All-American Boys” takes on police brutality from the perspective of two teenagers: one black, one white. Jason Reynolds, who is…
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True crime procedurals like the Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer" have shone a spotlight on the problem of wrongful convictions. How true-to-life…
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Around the world, 65 million people have been forced from their homes by wars and other disasters--the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II.…