Giulia Heyward is a weekend reporter for Digital News, based out of New York. She previously covered education and other national news as a reporting fellow at The New York Times and as the national education reporter at Capital B News. She interned for POLITICO, where she covered criminal justice reform in Florida, and CNN, as a writer for the trends & culture team. Her work has also been published in The Atlantic, HuffPost and The New Republic.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media, where she was a fully funded Roy H. Park Fellow. She received the Tom Wicker and Outstanding M.A. Student awards in 2020, and 2021, respectively. She also received the 2021 Curve Award for Emerging Journalists, in collaboration with the Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and the 2021 Student Journalism of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner devoted himself to improving the health of people around the world, promoting democracy and resolving...
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The World Health Organization today lifted its Public Health Emergency of International Concern for COVID-19. That declaration went into effect... -
Canada's last captive killer whale died on Thursday at Marineland, according to local media. The orca, who has been in... -
Severe rain and warmer temperatures created a dangerous combination, posing risks of flooding, mudslides and avalanches. In Monterey County, a... -
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil saying the company failed to take action to prevent... -
The university said it will tear down the King Street house in Moscow, Idaho, where a 28-year-old man has been... -
The sculpture, valued at $42,000, was one of several balloon dog sculptures by the world-famous artist. Fortunately, it's covered by... -
Students are expected to return to class on Monday, one week after a gunman shot and killed three people, and... -
The meeting is the highest level of contact between the two nations since the discovery of a Chinese balloon in... -
Carter is 98 years old and served as president from 1977 to 1981. The longest-lived former president has suffered from... -
Both the U.S. and Canada have called off searches for three unidentified airborne objects shot down over North America. No...