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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Dozens of community volunteers planted cages as part of the Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership, a joint project between Waterfront Partnership and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation that has cultivated an estimated 1.6 million oyster spat in Baltimore’s Harbor since 2013. -
What measures can Baltimore City voters watch for on the November ballot? -
The Maryland Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the State Board of Elections, Baltimore City and MCB Real Estate on Monday. -
“They need a break, so we need to come in seamlessly and assume that role as telecommunicator for the 911 system,” said Baltimore City Fire Chief James Wallace. -
Maryland’s heat standard, which is nearly four years in the making, could have saved someone like Ronald Silver II, a Baltimore City sanitation worker who died of heat exhaustion on the job. -
“I would estimate at this time last year, I had approximately 3500 hours. This year I am close to 1500,” said Alonzo Key, a longshoreman of 21 years who is part of the suit. -
“If the rats have a food source, a water source, shelter, they're going to be around and no amount of bait we use will mitigate that.” -
Route workers are reliant are personal cell phones in most emergencies. -
The $2.1 million renovation marks the next chapter in the market’s history. -
Questions dangle after judge strikes down charter that would take rezoning Harbor off the November ballot.
