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Amira McKee

New York

NBC Investigations Intern at NBC News

intern @nbcinvestigates | @ameja & @nlgja | tips? [email protected] | Signal: amira.25

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  • 2 weeks ago | columbiaspectator.com | Amira McKee

    To Isabella: When I first met you, a vibrant 18-year-old with streaks of red in your hair, I asked, maybe too quickly, “Are you applying to Spectator?” You furrowed your brow and shrugged, “Maybe.” And the rest is history. Over the past four years, I’ve had the privilege of watching that teenager become you.

  • Nov 6, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance |Amira McKee

    “I wanted to show my daughter the process and that it’s important to vote as a citizen, like to exercise our freedom for our right to vote,” David Jang, a West Harlem resident who cast his ballot at the Grant Houses, said. He said that despite the tense climate nationally, West Harlem has not felt the division. “It’s our voice as a people. It’s our voices of people to be able to have a say in what we believe is a right way of living, a right way of thinking,” Eubanks said.

  • Oct 10, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Ruth Weaver |Amira McKee |Joseph Zuloaga

    “It was hard to cover because you didn’t know what was going on inside,” Smith said as she waited in line for the press entrance on April 20. “So a lot of it was like monitoring Twitter from students that were inside or the handful of reporters that managed to get inside on that first and second day.” “I wasn’t expecting it to be this intense,” Doradea said. “Being here on campus, what we’re going through, this is what we’re living through.

  • Oct 10, 2024 | columbiaspectator.com | Ruth Weaver |Amira McKee |Joseph Zuloaga

    “I wasn’t expecting it to be this intense,” Doradea said. “Being here on campus is, what we’re going through, this is what we’re living through. But you know, seeing so much press, seeing how it became like a media circus, I really just feel the impact we’re having on the amount of people we’re reaching, and the effect we can have.”

  • Sep 7, 2024 | nlgjaconnect.com | Amira McKee

    Four seniors laughed around a cafeteria table, a mid-day ritual at one of Los Angeles’ few LGBTQ+ centered elder housing facilities. Jo Sun and Luis Zapata and two old friends ate lunch together daily in the bustling dining room of Ariadne Getty Foundation Senior Housing.

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Amira McKee
Amira McKee @_amiramckee
22 May 25

RT @SheaVance22: So proud of the @ColumbiaSpec staff for winning Best All-Around Student Newspaper in the nation in the @spj_tweets annual…

Amira McKee
Amira McKee @_amiramckee
19 May 25

RT @ColumbiaSpec: Former City News editor Amira McKee, CC ’25, writes of her time interviewing West Harlem residents: “I’ve been astonished…

Amira McKee
Amira McKee @_amiramckee
19 May 25

RT @ColumbiaSpec: When one of New York City’s largest landlords bought nearly an entire Morningside Heights block, the buildings that many…