Cassie Chew
Journalist at Freelance
Senior Reporter for Law360 Reporting Fellow | Community servant Bylines in a lot of places. Spring 2024: Caught a layoff. Pandemic era upskilling continues.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
nymisojo.com | Frieda Wiley |Cassie Chew
It took two doctors’ appointments, a trip to the emergency room and an 11th-hour visit before Thanksgiving Day 2019 for Marian Dancy to learn that six months after giving birth to her fourth child, her heart was failing. The 35-year-old mom’s symptoms started with fatigue, swelling around her ankles and an episode of temporary vision loss. But the first two doctors she saw dismissed her concerns. “You’re young. You’re healthy. This will probably pass.
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Sep 8, 2024 |
nymisojo.com | Cassie Chew
Soon after starting grad school, Kimberly Seals Allers embarked upon another career-defining journey. As she began pursuing a master’s degree in journalism she learned she also would be having a baby. It was an inopportune time to start a family, some may have whispered. But rather than disrupt her professional life, motherhood ushered Seals Allers into her mission.
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Jul 26, 2024 |
ewa.org | Cassie Chew
What should reporters do when efforts to report on equity in school budgets are stymied by administrators who are less than forthcoming about the distribution of state and local tax dollars? How should journalists proceed when school officials, new to the budget process, aren’t collecting data that could help the community better gauge whether a newly enacted funding plan is resolving the student achievement gaps for which it was implemented?
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Jul 1, 2024 |
ewa.org | Cassie Chew
K-12 school administrators signed contracts with technology vendors to implement campus surveillance and monitoring technologies that vendors say will help keep students safe. But these tools can actually threaten student privacy and result in false positives that lead to discipline, investigative reports and independent research shows. Additionally, sensitive information collected by these vendors may end up online.
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Apr 8, 2024 |
chicagohealthonline.com | Cassie Chew
Fact checked by Shannon SparksWhen the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two milestone treatments for sickle cell disease at the end of 2023, the community rejoiced. As a potential one-time therapy, the treatments might put an end to the patchwork of treatments people with sickle cell disease currently rely on: portable oxygen tanks, blood transfusions, opioids, and antibiotics, for example.
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