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 pandemic has left many families in the Quad Cities without homes or a reliable source of food.
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After three months in operation, the mass vaccination site in Milan will close this weekend. On Saturday at 4 p.m., state-sponsored nurses will administer their last doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Congresswoman Cheri Bustos of Moline helped pass the American Rescue Plan (ARP) earlier this year, and now colleges and universities are planning how to spend the relief money.
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Congresswoman Cheri Bustos of Moline helped pass the American Rescue Plan (ARP) earlier this year, and now colleges and universities are planning how to…
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