South Jersey coverage
I have been reporting on Camden County, NJ, since March 2020. Much of my work at The Retrospect, particularly my enterprise reporting, is behind a powerful paywall. I’m aware bylines are not present on some pieces. If you want verification, email email me at katrinajanco@protonmail.com or publisher@theretrospect.com
If you were interviewed for a story, or you are a potential employer/client, email me for access. The clips posted below are not paywalled except where noted.
Local Reps Undecided on Public Records Bill
- Second place for the Lloyd P. Burns Memorial Award the weekly division at the 2024 New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest
State Aid Cuts Shock Local School Districts
Oaklyn Dad Flips Script About Kids on Bikes
Thorny Issues Surround Potential OPRA Reform (behind a paywall)
- Third place in interpretative writing in the weekly division at the 2023 New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest
Funding, Asset Management, Community Conditions Hamper Camden City Schools’ 1:1 Technology Initiative – This story was produced thanks to a reporting grant facilitated by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University and funded by New Jersey Children’s Foundation.
Municipal Broadband: the Solution to Camden City’s Digital Divide? – This story was produced thanks to a reporting grant facilitated by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University and funded by New Jersey Children’s Foundation.
‘Neighbors caring about our neighbors’: Mutual aid groups rise up in South Jersey
For more of my South Jersey coverage, click here.
Disability
I wrote about the experiences of neurodivergent physicists for Symmetry.
I was one of three inaugural Loreen Arbus Accessibility is Fundamental fellows at Women’s eNews.
More Than Just Trauma: How Autistics Navigate a Neurotypical World and Still Find Joy
Making College More Accessible Post-COVID: How Virtual Classrooms Can Help Autistic Students
Student Journalism
I was a features writer for 34th Street magazine at the University of Pennsylvania for three semesters, and was a finalist for the 2020 Nora Magid Mentorship Prize. In addition, I took data journalism coursework, and dedicated my final project to analyzing bicycle cultures in Philadelphia and Moscow.
Life on the Autism Spectrum at Penn – This piece won the 2018 Michael A. Silver Writing Award from the Daily Pennsylvanian Alumni Association, and in 2019, won the second place Parker Prize for Journalistic Writing from Penn’s Creative Writing department.
Weathering the Storm: Being at Penn When a Natural Disaster Strikes at Home
Katrina Janco 