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Four Murray State University journalism and mass communication students have been selected to participate in the first WKMS investigative reporting fellowship for the spring semester. The fellowship is a partnership between the Murray State department of journalism and mass communications and WKMS.
Jared Bennett, an investigative reporter with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting in Louisville, will guide the students through the investigative reporting process and help them produce stories that could air on WKMS and on the WKMS website.
Students are Edie Greenberg, a senior journalism major from Louisville, Kentucky; Molly Dowell, a senior organizational communication major from Hardinsburg, Kentucky; Dustin Wilcox, a junior journalism major from Hopkinsville, Kentucky; and Kati Wyant, a sophomore journalism major from Murray, Kentucky.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Nearly 90,000 Kentuckians are still waiting on COVID-related unemployment benefits and more than 500 have been waiting since the pandemic began. Outdated software used to operate the state’s unemployment insurance website and subsequent upgrades that created glitches are just some of the problems creating the backlog.
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Jason Bailey, executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy (KYCEP), said aside from the archaic website and operating software, Kentucky’s outdated eligibility rules and inadequate agency staffing have kept people from qualifying for assistance and delayed benefits to others.
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Kentucky spent $78 million of CARES Act funding to set up a contact tracing program to track the spread of the coronavirus. Now, some Republicans in the Kentucky legislature are unsatisfied with the program s results and are calling for it to be defunded.
Reporter Jared Bennett of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting spoke to Mark Carter, the head of Kentucky s contact tracing program, to learn more about contact tracing and the challenges facing the system.
Carter, formerly CEO of Passport Health Care, was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear in May.
A portion of the interview, edited for clarity, is below.
Credit Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Kentucky spent $78 million of CARES Act funding to set up a contact tracing program to track the spread of the coronavirus. Now, some Republicans in the Kentucky legislature are unsatisfied with the program’s results and are calling for it to be defunded.
Reporter Jared Bennett of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting spoke to Mark Carter, the head of Kentucky’s contact tracing program, to learn more about contact tracing and the challenges facing the system.
Carter, formerly CEO of Passport Health Care, was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear in May.
A portion of the interview, edited for clarity, is below.