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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Laundry in the bathroom corner, baseball cap collection in the living room and a poster of a young woman wearing close to nothing.Zach Hassinger's… -
The federal refugee resettlement program is concentrated in a handful of states — most with governors who say they don't want newly-arrived Syrians as… -
The exemption would apply to 98 percent of Pennsylvania's municipal retirement systems.Susquehanna Township's figured out a way to save $40,000 a year,… -
More than 15,400 Pennsylvanians experienced homelessness this year. That's up slightly from 2014 - and up 6.2 percent from 2010, despite supportive… -
Lawmakers have advanced a proposal meant to address Pennsylvania's multibillion-dollar municipal pension problem — but some critics say it would severely… -
Pennsylvania’s Community Revitalization & Improvement Zone is meant to leverage hundreds of millions of dollars toward new development for… -
Capitol Recap: Why The Budget Impasse Hasn’t Affected Municipal Pension AidMunicipal pension aid isn’t determined by need.It’s based on the statewide average funding available per pensioner from a 2 percent state tax on fire and… -
Capitol Recap: Should Pa. Cities Still Covet A Special Economic Development Designation?The state's Community Revitalization & Improvement Zones (CRIZ) program in a select few cities has created some major competition and a little jealousy.… -
Foster parents, homeless shelters, families facing eviction – they all depend, to varying degrees, on programs and funding bound to the state and federal…
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The report comes from Government Executive, a business magazine for senior executives and managers in the federal government's departments and agencies,…
