Dawn Heinbach
May 5, 2022
Incarcerated Man Sues Pennsylvania Prison Over Safety Issues
A man incarcerated in a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' facility sues the prison over inadequate medical care.
May 7, 2021
Journalist and Poet Anthony Orozco Believes in the Power of Storytelling
“I love to talk about the process of writing poetry,” says Anthony Orozco. “It’s sort of like magic,” Orozco said. […]
January 24, 2021
‘One Love Project’ Assists Reading, Pa. Residents
Several organizations collaborated to serve the community at this fall cleanup.
October 14, 2020
Podcast: ‘Countervail’ on Reporters and Personal Social Media Accounts
Do public figures lose all rights of privacy to scrutiny by the public? In this episode of Countervail, Dawn Heinbach and Lilian Manansala discuss the suspension of Felicia Sonmez when she re-tweeted a story about the sexual allegation against Kobe Bryant. Because she re-tweeted the piece shortly after Bryant's death, the reporter was not only harassed and threatened online but suspended by the Washington Post. Where is the line between a reporter's personal rights on their social media accounts vs the publisher's right to control how their news staff represents the company?