Lindsay Lazarski

Senior Producer, Editor

Lindsay Lazarski is senior editor and producer of “The Pulse,” WHYY’s weekly health and science show and podcast, and the WHYY News Climate Desk.

Before joining the health and science team, she created and co-produced WHYY’s Cosby Unraveled podcast. For several years, Lindsay reported on Pennsylvania’s distressed cities, often traversing the state — from former steel towns to coal country — giving voice to people living and working in overlooked communities for the Keystone Crossroads project.

She has a master’s degree from The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and is a former South Bronx public school teacher.

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Hazim Hardeman is the first Temple University graduate heading to Oxford University in England as a Rhodes scholar. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

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Pennsylvania's congressional map as drawn in 2011. In 2018, it was deemed an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander by the Pa. Supreme Court (Keystone Crossroads)

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Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa.

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In file photo, Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pa., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Marino, President Donald Trump's former nominee to be the nation's drug czar, is defending his role in writing a law that critics say weakened the government's authority to stop companies from distributing opioids.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Politics & Policy

Off-year election, political frustrations contribute to dip in Pa. voter registration

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Mimi McKenzie and David Gersch, two of the plaintiffs' lawyers arguing state lawsuit on Pa.'s congressional map, stand outside Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg in October. (Lindsay Lazarski/Keystone Crossroads)

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Courts & Law

Pa. court weighs delaying gerrymander lawsuit similar to case before U.S. Supreme Court

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A view of Reading, Pennsylvania from Museum Road. The city is carved out of the 6th U.S. Congressional District and included with Lancaster and Chester Counties. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

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