Ali Oshinskie
Ali Oshinskie is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. Ali reports on the Naugatuck River Valley with an emphasis on work, economic development, and opportunity in the Valley. Her work has appeared on NPR, Marketplace, and The Hartford Courant.
Before coming to Connecticut Public, Ali served as a fellow on New Hampshire Public Radio’s The Exchange, producing candidate conversations for the 2020 Presidential Primary. She worked for the New England News Collaborative’s NEXT podcast with host John Dankosky. She interned at Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio and for Connecticut Public’s talk shows, Where We Live and The Colin McEnroe Show. Ali founded and ran Podstories, a podcasting company.
Ali’s photography won first place for Spot News Photo in the 2019 Distinguished Journalism Awards from the New Hampshire Press Association. Her writing will be a published in Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction coming in October 2020. Ali enjoys growing vegetables in her backyard, light dumpster diving, and a good pair of boots with arch support.
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Most elected officials agree that Connecticut needs more affordable housing. The Housing Committee held a hearing Thursday that offered a preview of how...
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Bono Sidharta voted in his first presidential election last November, as a registered Republican. But he’d been considering switching to Democrat for...
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Secretary of the State Denise Merrill is calling for a number of voting reforms after a new poll conducted in January finds that a majority of...
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A Connecticut prison guard has been placed on administrative leave after a Muslim civil rights group called for his termination. At issue is an anti...
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A Muslim civil rights group has asked the Connecticut Department of Correction to terminate the employment of an officer who allegedly posted...
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Connecticut is on track to lose a record number of lives to drug overdose this year. The most deadly year prior was 2019, with 1,200 overdose deaths....
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Connecticut is entering its second wave of the coronavirus pandemic -- 5,271 new cases and 43 more COVID-related deaths were reported over the weekend....
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A group of former residents from Hartford’s North End is taking on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Center for Leadership and...
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Parents and relatives got to see what life will look like for socially distanced students at Bridgeport’s Central High School Monday. Superintendent...
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Thomas Gilmer is neck and neck with Justin Anderson in the Republican primary for Connecticut’s 2nd Congressional District. Though Gilmer dropped out of...