*Marlee Baldridge* is the 2018 Google News Initiative Fellow. Marlee has reported for print, broadcast and online publications. This spring she helped The Houston Herald in Missouri and The Berkshire Edge in Massachusetts build sustainable audience engagement strategies with the typical amount of resources available to community papers (few to none). She’s from Harrisburg, Missouri, population: 276.
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Baldridge, Marlee. "Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey shows." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Jun. 2018. Web. 12 Dec. 2024.
APA
Baldridge, M. (2018, Jun. 27). Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey shows. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 12, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/06/fewer-women-and-people-of-color-worked-at-radio-stations-in-2017-than-in-2016-a-new-survey-shows/
Chicago
Baldridge, Marlee. "Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey shows." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 27, 2018. Accessed December 12, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/06/fewer-women-and-people-of-color-worked-at-radio-stations-in-2017-than-in-2016-a-new-survey-shows/.
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