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Human Composting is Legal in New York—Now What?

The alternative method to burial faces some barriers before New Yorkers can actually choose it — competing interests between businesses in the death industry are complicating matters. Mary Steffenhagen reports.

Music In Their Own Words: Sylvan Esso

Amelia Meath, one half of the electronic pop duo Sylvan Esso, talks breaking the rules on their latest album, "No Rules Sandy." One of a music-focused miniseries created by Mary Steffenhagen.

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L.A. Strippers Win the Fight for a Union

The Star Garden Topless Dive Bar dancers just won their fight to form the only union for exotic dancers in the country. What's next?

Visiting the Prison at Angola

A new documentary project takes viewers inside Louisiana's oldest prison, and inside the minds and experiences of the men incarcerated there for life.

A Culture of Abuse and Cover-Ups in the Southern Baptist Convention

A 2022 report revealed that leadership of the largest Protestant denomination in the US was aware of hundreds of cases of sexual abuse in their churches and covered them up for decades.

The “Mercy Workers” Who Fight the Death Sentence

Is there a place in our criminal punishment system for mercy?

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A podcast about homeschooling in America and the culture wars that are shaping it. We look at a relatively small, intensely evangelical Christian lobbying group that’s been shifting public policy for decades — and the homeschooled children that become collateral damage.

  • Newswomens’s Club of New York: Best audio investigative feature, 2022

  • Associated Collegiate Press: Best Investigation, 2022

  • Associated Collegiate Press: Multimedia Story of the Year, 2022

  • Online News Association: finalist for best student journalism, 2022

  • Editor & Publisher awards (EPPYs): second place, best student investigative story or documentary, 2022

When you leave your church, where can you go? Meet a drag queen who’s using Tik Tok to deconstruct her faith, connect with others and reclaim herself.

What you didn’t know about New York City’s bees

Radio feature aired on WBAI 04/22/21

 

Trader joe’s accused of Retaliating against workers

Radio feature aired on WBAI 03/20/21. Awarded Broadcast News Story of 2021 by the Associated Collegiate Press

Outside spending floods a previously quiet special election

Reported 03/18/21