Farrah Anderson

it’s like farrah fawcett | investigating @wfyi @invinst | work in @nytimes @WisconsinWatch @stlpublicradio | she/her | Signal: farrahsoa.78

[Farrah Anderson @farrahsoa]

SCOOP w/ @samstecklow: Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, who is now charged with murder for killing Sonya Massey, was discharged from the U.S. Army for serious misconduct — and still hired at six police departments in Central Illinois.
https://t.co/9eoPq2gTio

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

Sentenced to prison, stuck in jail. Hundreds wait as Indiana's transfer backlog drags on...

@farrahsoa on the backlog straining county jails — stretching budgets, filling beds & forcing facilities built for short-term stays to hold people for months.

https://t.co/Ntmuwbsq77

[WFYI @wfyi]

Sentenced to prison, stuck in jail. Hundreds wait as Indiana's transfer backlog drags on | via @farrahsoa
https://t.co/TAtSzfolWO

[Tony Cook @indystartony]

Congrats to @WTHRcom and @wfyi for being named finalists in this year’s IRE awards — and for dedicating the time and resources to produce important work!

[WFYI Public Media Collective @wfyi_pmc]

Hello again! It was just over two years ago that we informed @wfyi that we were forming a union w/ @sagaftra. Negotiations have since been very, very slow. That’s right - we’re still bargaining our 1st contract. What’s going on? Over the next few days we'll get you caught up.

[Clara Jeffery @ClaraJeffery]

I'm sure loads of journalists have said this already but...

good journalism is largely composed of reporting on things that people DO NOT YET KNOW

Watergate, famously, was uncovered by a series of stories that many people did not read until they reached a crescendo

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

Hundreds of students at Carmel High School walked out Tuesday afternoon as classes ended to take part in a nationwide protest against the Trump administration.

@farrahsoa spoke with some of them about why they walked a mile+ in freezing temperatures

https://t.co/rrCGKbrcfZ

[Jane Mayer @JaneMayerNYer]

FBI raid of reporter’s home is a “Tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press” says major legal group defending free press: https://t.co/5GkWM5T4zW

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

Why is there a $4 million child care center sitting mostly empty in rural Indiana?

Hint: It follows Indiana slashing vouchers for low-income parents, after federal pandemic-era funding ran out.

https://t.co/SVQfbGuE6O

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

Decatur Township has become the latest flashpoint in Indiana’s growing wave of data center battles — this time pitting residents against Sabey, a Seattle-based developer.
@farrahsoa on why residents worry Sabey could bypass the city county council.

https://t.co/zPmZMYxzcB

[WFYI @wfyi]

BREAKING: In a setback for Trump, Indiana lawmakers defeat redistricting plan

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

This week Indiana Republicans will consider a new congressional map that would split Indianapolis into 4 sprawling districts.

Many Black voters in the city say it’s impossible to see this as anything other than an effort to dilute the votes of the largest Black community in the state. https://t.co/4yXfasffnM

[Kamala Kelkar @kkelkar]

@farrahsoa @wfyi @ericweddle @farah_yousry Heartbreaking work by an ace reporter and team.

Providers told Farrah that they are not always sure whether patients across Indiana with both medical and psych needs are better off inside NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals - often the only place that will take them - or on the streets.

[Gwyn Skiles @GwynSkiles]

Quick 1,000 words about a father and daughter's emotional attachment to a rock

https://t.co/YPPk68lrSj

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

WFYI interviewed more than 40 former patients, relatives, staff and experts who described a hospital system that strands vulnerable people with little recourse.

Their accounts — corroborated by lawsuits, medical records and hundreds of state and federal inspection reports — show NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals was repeatedly cited for serious violations, including the federal government's most serious warning, and was the subject of hundreds of substantiated complaints over the past decade.

https://t.co/kFEX4dOwyZ

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

Trapped inside the 'scariest place' — a psychiatric hospital in Indiana

A mother called the Greenwood police when she could not get answers from a psychiatric hospital that claimed her daughter was being held there under a court order.

Turns out, there was no order.

@farrahsoa investigated the longstanding concerns about oversight and care at NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals chain. First story out now... link below

[WFYI @wfyi]

Trapped inside the 'scariest place' — a psychiatric hospital in Indiana | via @farrahsoa
https://t.co/2JgNlE2omW

[Farrah Anderson @farrahsoa]

the first part of my yearlong investigation for @wfyi is out today.

immensely grateful to the dozens of sources who spoke to me for this story, and my exceptional editors @ericweddle, @Farah_Yousry, and @kkelkar.

[WFYI @wfyi]

Trapped inside the 'scariest place' — a psychiatric hospital in Indiana | via @farrahsoa
https://t.co/2JgNlE2omW

[Eric Weddle @ericweddle]

Hundreds of residents packed an open-house meeting Tuesday night in Decatur Township in southwest Marion County, where developers outlined plans for a proposed data center on industrial-zoned land. 

@farrahsoa’s story on the meeting, link in thread

[WFYI @wfyi]

In long-polluted Martindale-Brightwood, residents challenge new data center proposal | via @farrahsoa https://t.co/g9gaf5DOZO

[Chicago Journ Assoc @CJA_Updates]

This years first place in collaborations goes to @farrahsoa, Sam Stecklow and @DeanOlsenIT with @invinst, IPM News and @ILTimes

#CJA86 #ChiJournoAwards #SarahBrownBoydenAwards