Wendi Thomas
Journalist. Disrupter. @MLK50Memphis editor. Former @ProPublica LRN Fellow. 2020 Selden Ring winner. @niemanfdn c/o '16. DMs open. She/her #1908 💕💚
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Apr 4, 2024 |
mlk50.com | Wendi Thomas
A recent analysis of debt collection lawsuits caught my eye and reminded me of the power of partnerships between courageous residents and journalists. I’m referring to MLK50: Justice Through Journalism’s-ProPublica’s 2019 “Profiting from the Poor” investigation, which led one of the area’s largest hospital systems and a private equity-owned doctors’ group to stop suing patients for unpaid medical bills.
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Feb 6, 2024 |
editorandpublisher.com | Wendi Thomas |Gretchen A. Peck
People ask, ‘Who are you writing this for?’ And we’re definitely not trying to be the daily newspaper.
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Jan 22, 2024 |
niemanreports.org | Wendi Thomas
April 4, 1983 was the 15th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. The day before was a Sunday, and I was with my family in the virtually all-white church we attended in Memphis. I was 11 and naive and a bit self-righteous. I thought that in the very city King was killed, the pastor would surely work King’s death into his sermon, maybe something about Beatitudes — you know, blessed are the peacemakers. He did not, and I was disappointed. After church, I wrote the pastor a letter.
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Apr 12, 2023 |
mlk50.com | Wendi Thomas
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Apr 11, 2023 |
mississippifreepress.org | Wendi Thomas
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