Marianna Bacallao
WVIK Newsroom Fellow July 2020 - June 2021Marianna Bacallao is WVIK Quad Cities NPR's 2020-2021 Fellowship Host/Reporter. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism and served as Editor-in-Chief for the student newspaper, The Cluster.
After interning with Georgia Public Broadcasting in 2018, she was selected as a 2019 John M. Couric Fellowship Reporter at GPB, where she contributed to the statewide newscast. She was a spring 2020 intern, helping produce GPB's daily news talk show, Political Rewind.
She also had the pleasure of interning with The Macon Telegraph and CBS affiliate, 13WMAZ. Georgia College Press Association awarded her first place in Sports Photography and Best Review, and she ranked third in the state for Best Photo Essay twice.
Marianna is now working at WPLN as the Nashville station's on-air afternoon host.
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The moratorium on evictions in Illinois is due to expire this fall. To help keep people in their homes, Illinois’ 14th Judicial Circuit is partnering with…
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As resources outpace demand, the COVID-19 vaccination rate has declined in the Quad Cities. But since the FDA granted the Pfizer vaccine emergency use…
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To recruit more young people for careers in law enforcement, the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges, in partnership with local police departments, has…
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Over one third of families in the Quad Cities cannot afford the cost of living, according to the United Way. To raise awareness of local poverty, local…
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One local expert agrees with new guidance from the CDC, that those fully vaccinated don’t have to wear a mask outdoors or indoors. Dr. Louis Katz, Medical…
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