Caity Coyne

Caity Coyne is a Galloway Fellow reporting for the Charleston Gazette-Mail with Report for America, part of the Appalachian Reporting Project which is made possible by the Galloway Family Foundation. Coyne was the editor-in-chief of West Virginia University’s award winning, independent student newspaper, the Daily Athanaeum, and a reporting intern at the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Coyne is originally from San Diego, CA, but she found a home in West Virginia as a student. As a Galloway Fellow, Caity reports on the state’s southern coalfields for the Gazette-Mail. She has tenaciously covered a statewide teachers’ strike and featured a once-booming coal town that may be forced to dissolve as a municipality.

Americas

‘What color will the water be?’

‘What color will the water be?’: In Southern WV, days without water are a way of life Chris...

Dec 10, 2018

Health

‘A Mountain Dew to brush my teeth.’

‘A Mountain Dew to brush my teeth.’: In Southern W.Va., Residents Wary of Water's Health Effects A water...

Dec 10, 2018

Americas

‘Constantly watching the water.’

‘Constantly watching the water.’: Search for central water system proves futile for one family Outside of Hamlin, a...

Dec 10, 2018

Americas

‘Who’s going to pay for it?’

‘Who’s going to pay for it?’: No easy answers to resolve water issues A sign posted outside the...

Dec 10, 2018

Virginia Street at McFarland Street, circa 1912. The Charleston Daily Mail, at left, moved across the street in 1927 into the building it currently occupies. (Archival image from Charleston Gazette-Mail / Courtesy of James D. Scarbro Jr.)

Americas

Despite a sale and layoffs, West Virginia newspaper continues its tradition of ‘sustained outrage’

CHARLESTON, West Virginia — This town’s daily newspaper, the Gazette-Mail, is housed in a classic 1920s building made of...

May 09, 2018