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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Police silently protested during the swearing in of Rock Island alderman Dylan Parker for his comments following the killing of DeShawn Tatum, whose death…
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Racial justice advocates and law enforcement leaders in the Iowa Quad Cities signed an agreement today that gives minority groups a voice in community…
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EconomyJohn Deere is being recognized for the success of its farming education program in Nigeria. Last year, Deere partnered with a non-profit and local farmers…
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Nine months after she disappeared, charges have been filed for the murder of a Davenport girl. 48-year-old Henry Dinkins is charged with first degree…