About Me
Tracie Mauriello is the state education policy reporter for Chalkbeat Detroit and Bridge Michigan.
She has covered politics and public policy at every level of government from municipal to federal. She served as Washington bureau chief for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where her work included contributions to the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Tree of Life massacre.
Tracie spent the 2019-20 academic year as a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan where she explored the intersection of storytelling and social change across genres. After her fellowship she worked with Ann Arbor carillonist Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra to launch Collaborative Investigative Composing, which combines journalism, music and filmmaking to tell underreported stories about social justice issues around the globe.
Tracie had been destined for a career in journalism. At age 9 she founded the short-lived Davis Street Day, a photocopied scandal sheet -- complete with unauthorized Slurpee coupons -- that she surreptitiously stuffed into customers' bags at her mother's 7-Eleven store in Oakville, Conn. At 10, she became editor of the Polk School Post, a position she attained because of her extraordinary skill at guessing numbers. (Her teacher picked a number and whoever guessed it got to be editor.)
Since then, Tracie has served as education writer for the Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn., assistant city editor of the Springfield News-Sun in Ohio, education and municipal government reporter for The Herald in New Britain, Conn., and executive director of the Journalism Association of Ohio Schools. She taught journalism at Urbana University in Ohio and co-wrote a chapter about libel law in the 2006 textbook "Emerging Issues in Contemporary Journalism."
Tracie has a bachelor's degree in English from Central Connecticut State University and a master's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University. She was a 2011-12 Paul Miller fellow at the National Press Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a 2007 Journalist Law School fellow at Loyola University in Los Angeles.
She is a member of the Washington Gridiron Club and the Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild. She is former secretary of the Regional Reporters Association and a former member of the National Press Club.
Her long-term goal is to return to Oakville to resurrect The Day and return it to its former glory as the best two-page monthly in the entire Davis Street neighborhood.
Reach Tracie at [email protected].
She has covered politics and public policy at every level of government from municipal to federal. She served as Washington bureau chief for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where her work included contributions to the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Tree of Life massacre.
Tracie spent the 2019-20 academic year as a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan where she explored the intersection of storytelling and social change across genres. After her fellowship she worked with Ann Arbor carillonist Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra to launch Collaborative Investigative Composing, which combines journalism, music and filmmaking to tell underreported stories about social justice issues around the globe.
Tracie had been destined for a career in journalism. At age 9 she founded the short-lived Davis Street Day, a photocopied scandal sheet -- complete with unauthorized Slurpee coupons -- that she surreptitiously stuffed into customers' bags at her mother's 7-Eleven store in Oakville, Conn. At 10, she became editor of the Polk School Post, a position she attained because of her extraordinary skill at guessing numbers. (Her teacher picked a number and whoever guessed it got to be editor.)
Since then, Tracie has served as education writer for the Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn., assistant city editor of the Springfield News-Sun in Ohio, education and municipal government reporter for The Herald in New Britain, Conn., and executive director of the Journalism Association of Ohio Schools. She taught journalism at Urbana University in Ohio and co-wrote a chapter about libel law in the 2006 textbook "Emerging Issues in Contemporary Journalism."
Tracie has a bachelor's degree in English from Central Connecticut State University and a master's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University. She was a 2011-12 Paul Miller fellow at the National Press Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a 2007 Journalist Law School fellow at Loyola University in Los Angeles.
She is a member of the Washington Gridiron Club and the Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild. She is former secretary of the Regional Reporters Association and a former member of the National Press Club.
Her long-term goal is to return to Oakville to resurrect The Day and return it to its former glory as the best two-page monthly in the entire Davis Street neighborhood.
Reach Tracie at [email protected].
