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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“It showed that they had already made some efforts at self improvement, and more importantly, they were completely open to all of the audit department's recommendations about further improvements they could make to their own controls,” said Comptroller Bill Henry. -
“Off the record, neither MONSE nor the audits team will verify the individual, so we really just need a name that doesn’t sound fictional.” -
“Do you keep putting money in that old car, or is it time to get a new one? Those are the types of decisions that we're looking to make here, just on a much, much bigger scale.” -
Water cremation doesn’t produce emissions from carbon dioxide, which advocates say makes for a more environmentally friendly option. -
The city’s newest commission is tasked with righting historical wrongs from the era of cannabis prohibition. -
The Brooklyn Safe Streets office will join Park Heights, Franklin Square and the Belvedere sites who have all celebrated a similar milestone recently. -
Timothy Cartwell is the second DPW solid waste worker to die on the job this year. -
“Let me be clear, this fight was about more than just the reduction of the city council or any single policy issue that was about keeping our local democracy intact.” -
“Any changes now will happen at a city hall level.” -
A “yes” vote on Question F was necessary for the proposed $900 M redesigns of Harborplace to become a reality.
