Emily Previti
Keystone Crossroads ReporterEmily Previti is WITF's reporter for Keystone Crossroads, a statewide public media collaboration focused on issues facing Pennsylvania's cities.
Emily previously covered municipal dysfunction and state interventions as a city hall reporter in Harrisburg for the Patriot-News/PennLive, and in Atlantic City for The Press of Atlantic City.
She twice won the New Jersey Press Association's Art Weissman award for public service journalism for two watchdog projects. Before going to work for The Press, Emily covered suburban Chicago for Northwest Newsgroup.
She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate, she worked for WXPN-FM's Morning Show and Kids Corner programs.
Her "off" hours are spent running, swimming, reading and seeking laughter and good music.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court found the state's congressional districts violate the Pennsylvania Constitution. The court demanded they be redrawn.
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Reading Mayor Wally Scott, a Democrat, has decided to focus on things he can change without relying on higher levels of government.“I don’t have any… -
In most states, the legislature is in charge of designing congressional and state voting districts.Pennsylvania isn’t unique in that respect.But some say… -
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP – Even after 40 years, Ho-Thanh Nguyen remembers.“That’s an old, old, old building right there. All wood,” she says as we drive past a… -
State legislators are again discussing bills that would make it easier to sue municipalities over local firearms ordinances that conflict with… -
The suit alleged the school’s practices violated the Equal Education Opportunity Act. A federal judge agreed, as did an appellate panel.So what were the… -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been increasingly present in multiple Central Pennsylvania cities in recent weeks. The activity has been… -
Imad Ghajar and his wife Marwa Hilani were born in Aleppo, Syria, met there, and didn't have plans to leave.Then the war happened."Even in the schools,… -
Marian Spotts and her husband, Phil, rode a bus with other Trump supporters 350 miles from Erie County, to Washington, D.C. for Inauguration Day earlier… -
The Municipal Sanctuary and Federal Enforcement, or SAFE, Act would restrict state funding for communities where law enforcement agencies don't cooperate…