Mackenzie Farkus is an associate multimedia producer for The Christian Science Monitor. Prior to the Monitor, she worked for GBH News as a production assistant for the live radio show "Boston Public Radio," hosted by Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.
While completing her journalism degree at Simmons University in Boston, Farkus interned for GBH News’ higher education desk, where she focused on how schools were responding to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, and FOIA nonprofit MuckRock, where she wrote about Watergate-era attacks against then-presidential candidate and U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm. She also served as a 2019 fellow in the National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists’ annual Student CONNECT Program, where she documented efforts to preserve Louisiana’s LGBTQ+ history.
Stories by Mackenzie Farkus
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This A ‘disproportionate toll’: A woman of Gaza on what Gaza’s women face
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This ‘You have to be loving’: An editor and essayist on the storyteller’s craft
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Reporting an immigration story that many have missed
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This In France, ‘defending the culture,’ but not all of its icons
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Three years after ‘the freeze,’ we probe Texans’ faith in their grid
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