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Isaiah Murtaugh

Isaiah Murtaugh

Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow Isaiah Murtaugh is an audio and print reporter. He recently earned a master's degree in specialized journalism at the University of Southern California, then spent a short spell writing obituaries for COVID-19 victims as a Los Angeles Times intern before joining GroundTruth as a reporting fellow. He calls Los Angeles home and is convinced it is both the ugliest and most beautiful city in the world.
Democracy

Why Native Americans don’t share the government’s optimism about the census

The Census Bureau has touted the non-response follow-up (NRFU) rate as evidence of a good census count. As...

Nov 02, 2020
Season 9 - On The Ground with Report for America

Election Episode: 2020 and Counting

The turmoil of the 2020 presidential election campaigns has raised questions about just what it means to vote....

Oct 31, 2020
Democracy

Forgotten and left behind, these American voters don’t feel counted among ‘We the People’

Postcards from our Report from America corps members covering voting rights on the ground across the country. Who...

Oct 21, 2020
Democracy

‘Mail voting doesn’t work for Navajo Nation’: Native Americans face steep election hurdles

Tamisha Jensen requested a mail ballot in mid-September. Mail ballots don’t ship in Arizona until Oct. 7, but she’s...

Oct 09, 2020
Democracy

How young poll workers may save Americans from Election Day chaos

Evan Malbrough is one of the younger — and more valuable — poll workers in his Atlanta, Ga., precinct. The 22-year-old...

Sep 17, 2020
Democracy

How the 2020 presidential election could come down to state lawmakers

Edward B. Foley has a recurring nightmare. It’s Nov. 3, election night. President Donald Trump and former Vice...

Aug 14, 2020
Rights

‘An awakening’: George Floyd protests spur surge in Black voter registration

Gregory Sarafan spends most election years assisting team leaders with registration events at concerts, where they target young,...

Aug 10, 2020
Rights

Alabama’s get-out-the-vote activists fight back against voting restrictions

Mid-summer, every big election year, Montgomery activist Kynesha Brown’s after-work schedule starts to fill up. In normal times,...

Jul 13, 2020
Faith

One church’s tale of two pandemics, 100 years apart

LOS ANGELES — At the height of the influenza pandemic in 1918, the Rev. John Misao Yamazaki stopped...

Apr 15, 2020
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