Unraveling Harborplace

We continue our series on the nominations for MDDC’s prestigious James S. Keat FOIA Award, which honors a body of work reported primarily through open records. The Keat award, among many others, will presented online the week of May 11. In this episode “Unraveling Harborplace,” we will hear from Melody Simmons about her investigative work for the Baltimore Business Journal.

Guest

Melody Simmons, reporter
Baltimore Business Journal

Melody Simmons has been a reporter in Baltimore since late 1979. She worked on the metro desks for The Evening Sun and The Sun for two decades and has been a freelance journalist for several news outlets including WYPR-FM, The New York Times, Washington Post, People magazine, the Catholic Review and Baltimore magazine. She has also worked as a staff writer at The Daily Record and currently covers real estate and economic development for the Baltimore Business Journal.

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About this episode

ITEMS DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

Maryland’s Open Meetings Act

Saving Harborplace series, Baltimore Business Journal, December 13-19, 2019

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Rebecca Snyder (host & producer). Original music by Ruskin Nohe-Moren.