Zuri Berry

May 3, 2024 | thebaltimorebanner.com | Zuri Berry |Laila Milevski |Greg Morton

The Baltimore Banner was named the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association’s “News Organization of the Year” for 2023 after sweeping its top awards, winning 12 “Best of Show” awards and winning 40 others for its reporting, visuals and multimedia storytelling. The Banner earned top honors for general website excellence and was awarded the James S.

Mar 1, 2024 | thebaltimorebanner.com | Zuri Berry

The budget airline Spirit is adding four new destinations for flights from Baltimore’s BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Spirit customers will be able to fly direct from BWI to Boston and Portland, Oregon, beginning on May 8, with further service to New Orleans and San Diego beginning on May 9. The airline will be offering twice-daily flights to Boston while flying only three times a week to San Diego, four times a week to Portland and five times a week to New Orleans.

Feb 21, 2024 | thebaltimorebanner.com | Rohan Mattu |Zuri Berry

Two people, one of them a child, died in a crash involving four cars Wednesday morning in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City fire and police departments. Units responded around 7:30 a.m. to the crash at the 3500 block of Belair Road, BCFD spokesperson Kevin Cartwright said. Investigators believe one vehicle struck three others in the crash, and speed was a factor. A child was pronounced dead at the scene, Cartwright said.

Oct 20, 2023 | thebaltimorebanner.com | Zuri Berry

Talib Jasir caught the podcasting bug in 2017. He had just launched an audio drama, “The Fussings: Until One of Us is Dead,” a limited-run series that helped juice his creativity for storytelling. At the time, he was working in big pharma on the creative services side. It was cubicle life, but it paid the bills. “I’ve always hated being in an office space where I knew that my abilities and my talents would best be served for myself,” Jasir said. But with the Fussings, he saw an outlet.

Aug 2, 2023 | share.transistor.fm | Zuri Berry

Podcasts have a well known discovery problem. It's a problem that many companies and podcast platforms are working hard to solve. So when a fancy new social media network comes along, like threads did last month and successfully entices more than a hundred million users to give it a try, you have to be willing to shake the tree and see if there's anything worthwhile there, whether or not there's something that could help you grow or share your podcasts.