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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About 17,000 school-aged refugees move to the U.S. in an average year, an estimate that's a few years old and likely growing along with overall… -
Lead-based paint remains in homes in cities nationwide, including many in Pennsylvania, despite long-standing awareness of health risks to young… -
In a handful of Pennsylvania communities, it’s illegal for private landlords to rent to people convicted of a felony drug offense within the past seven… -
Legislation dealing with pensions has, for decades, received a once-over by actuaries working for the Public Employee Retirement Commission, or PERC.The… -
The first thing you see inside Sunbury City Hall is Mayor David Persing's name on an office window.Today, Persing's got back-to-back appointments running… -
Many of the commonwealth's roughly 2,000 authorities manage essential public assets like water and sewer systems.Basically, local governments create the… -
"Regardless of where you come down on that fight, the work needs to get done." That's state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale's take on Governor Wolf's… -
Host Guy Raz talks with public officials, academics and an engineer about their ideas for building better cities, and why it matters.The show aired last… -
Accountability.That, to me, is the most consistent theme among different plans and ideas for the upcoming year shared with me recently by my Keystone… -
Many of Lancaster's 70,000 residents take pride in the fact that their city resettled more refugees than 20 individual states last year.But this weekend,…
