Atlanta radio station hires Mecke as environmental journalist

Marisa Mecke has joined WABE-FM 90.1 in Atlanta as an environmental journalist, a post she recently held at the Savannah Morning News, part of the Gannett | USA Today Network. Before that, Mecke was an environmental journalist via Report for American at The Mountain Times, a weekly newspaper in North Carolina. Mecke graduated from Davidson […]

Cruz to join NPR’s Atlanta station as criminal justice reporter

WABE-FM 90.1, Atlanta’s NPR station, has hired Chamian Cruz as a criminal justice reporter. Cruz was a government/courts reporter at Appen Media Group in Georgia. She reported for The Northeast Georgian and was the lead police and courts reporter at the Gwinnett Daily Post in Gwinnett County, Ga., where she covered breaking news and produced […]