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Carly Stern

@SternCarly96

Carly Stern is a freelance reporter based in San Francisco who covers housing, disability policy, urban life and economic inequality. She won a San Francisco Press Club Award in 2019 for her multimedia investigation into why the “benefit cliff” pushes people with disabilities to get divorced. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Lily and other national publications.

How a story originally reported for print was transformed for audio

How a story originally reported for print was transformed for audio

EDITOR’S NOTE: Read our conversation with Robyn Semien of This American Life and Ken Armstrong, formerly of The Marshall Project, on how those two organizations and ProPublica partnered to tell…
June 3, 2021
A radio producer and print reporters partner on a narrative for multiple platforms

A radio producer and print reporters partner on a narrative for multiple platforms

EDITOR’S NOTE: Read an annotation of the prologue and first act of This American Life’s “Anatomy of Doubt.”CAUTION: The stories linked to and discussed in this package describe details of…
June 2, 2021
Profiling homeless house-sitters to humanize the housing crisis in America

Profiling homeless house-sitters to humanize the housing crisis in America

Growing up in California, Francesca Mari found herself in proximity to spaces that felt somewhat foreign. Decades later, her sense of story traces to her desire to understand how the…
March 12, 2021
How a national correspondent gained trust to cover COVID in a tiny Kansas town

How a national correspondent gained trust to cover COVID in a tiny Kansas town

Trevor Hughes likes to tell people he grew up on a dirt road next to an apple orchard in Vermont, where his parents received The Burlington Free Press every day.…
February 25, 2021
How an editor guided coverage of racism in the life and death of George Floyd

How an editor guided coverage of racism in the life and death of George Floyd

 “Are we qualified to tell this story? Can we do it justice?” are important and clarifying questions for any journalist to ask before chasing a story. But the moral urgency…
December 2, 2020
A profile of police victim George Floyd also explored the health toll of racism

A profile of police victim George Floyd also explored the health toll of racism

 How is it someone can gain such notoriety in death but have their life largely unknown? That’s what Robert Samuels wondered as he set out to profile George Floyd, and…
December 1, 2020
The project pitch that won funding from the International Women's Media Foundation

The project pitch that won funding from the International Women’s Media Foundation

"Don't start from the grant; start from the story," says reporter Ylenia Gostoli
October 23, 2020
Pitching the IWMF: Focus on undercovered issues, think big and dare to stretch

Pitching the IWMF: Focus on undercovered issues, think big and dare to stretch

For 30 years, the International Women's Media Fund has helped fund women journalists and ambitious projects around the world
October 22, 2020
An intimate narrative from inside a COVID-afflicted nursing home — reported by phone

An intimate narrative from inside a COVID-afflicted nursing home — reported by phone

Few writers can captivate an audience with a more than 16,000-word dive into the inner workings of a nursing home. But Katie Engelhart’s exploration of America’s first COVID hot-spot —…
October 7, 2020
How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers

How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers

Reporters are always hunting for timely news pegs to resurface evergreen stories. More than a year after Jennifer Gollan’s arresting investigation into labor abuses against caregivers, coronavirus has offered a…
September 22, 2020