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my name is Ko: K-O, Ko. that's it.

i’m a reporter and editor based in the Deep South (New Orleans/Mississippi).

i’m also a writer-for-hire and a sensitivity reader.

 
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writing:

radio:

NPR segments:

  • Marketplace, Overcoming fear as a first-time homebuyer, May 2021

  • Marketplace, “It’s going to take a while for people to come back,” September 2021

  • Here & Now, Children Are Being Criminally Charged As Adults In Mississippi, November 2019

  • Here & Now, How a month-long paid break transformed an office and its employees, March 2022

  • The Takeaway, The Critical Work of Black Women in the Democratic Party, August 2020

Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting episodes:

editing:

  • I’m currently an investigative editor at The Markup, a non-profit outlet covering Big Tech and how its overreaches cause harm.

  • I’m a sensitivity reader for the Southern Environmental Law Center’s podcast Broken Ground.

  • As Scalawag’s Race & Place editor, I launched two series:

    • one about grief in the U.S. South.

    • a series and newsletter called “pop justice” on how popular culture warps our understanding of the justice system.

  • As Southerly’s inaugural contributing editor, I led the publication’s first foray into environmental reporting in prisons (here and here).

additional skills, services:

  • newsletter writing/curation

  • newsroom DEI consulting

  • investigative journalism talks, workshops, curriculum

let’s work together: ko@keaux.com