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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Congressional leaders worried about the future of one of Baltimore County’s largest employers. -
“We are the ones who see firsthand the challenges our neighbors face. Therefore, it is our responsibility to respond with empathy, support and action,” said the county executive during a press conference Friday morning. -
This comes after months of insisting from the Maryland DOL that citations are due within six months of the incident. -
“You’re going to be asking people to choose between food and water." Many who provided testimony noted that the increases are coming at the same time as rate supply increases on Baltimore Gas and Electric services. -
“We knew that this was coming,” said Mayor Brandon Scott about Trump’s recent actions during one of his regular Wednesday press conferences. “Folks should have taken the President for his word when he said he was going to do the things that he's doing.” -
“I think this is going to be a very, very challenging year to siphon off some of the state sales tax for specific jurisdictions,” Ferguson told reporters. -
The program is under the authority of DPW. Resolutions like the one passed Monday can serve to put public pressure on the department. -
It is the Delmarva region’s third case of confirmed avian influenza in the last 30 days. -
The city has not had two consecutive years of declining homicide since 2010 and 2011. -
“They're not going to spend that here in Maryland"
