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Laura Ellis

@funambulator

(she/her) Director of Podcasts & Special Projects, @LouPubMedia. Sound designer: @kyshakespeare. I have a GED & a Peabody.

 Louisville, KY
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Joined June 2008
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Jacob Munoz@jmunoz1_31 Oct 2024
Incredibly excited that @ayisha will be joining us here in Louisville!! Can't wait to work with her and the rest of the team on our new talk show: lpm.org/news/2024-10-30/host…

Host Ayisha Jaffer joins Louisville Public Media to help develop talk show

Talk show with local focus is expected to launch in early 2025.

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My boss/editor/Michelle Whisperer @funambulator made the most on point Mary J. Blige reference in the edit of a document today. Damn I love her. (Both Laura Ellis AND Mary J. ) There’s not hateration, holleration for either under my roof.
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Louisville Public Media will layoff eight staff, joining public radio outlets across the country in reductions amid rising costs lower than expected membership growth. lpm.org/news/2024-05-30/loui…
Louisville Public Media laying off eight staff to meet budget shortfall

Louisville Public Media laying off eight staff to meet budget shortfall

Kentucky’s largest public radio station will cut its workforce amid lower than expected revenues and rising costs.

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Josh Wood@JWoodJourno30 May 2024
Four years ago, a Louisville Metro Police officer fired pepper balls at a @wave3news crew broadcasting live on air. That night, LMPD said the incident would be investigated. Four years later, that investigation is still open. My latest: courier-journal.com/story/ne…
LMPD investigation of officer who fired pepper balls at news crew unfinished 4 years later

LMPD investigation of officer who fired pepper balls at news crew unfinished 4 years later

Dusten Dean, the officer who fired the pepper balls, has seen his salary increase and has become a detective in the intervening four years.

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Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵 1. Water flowing over toes
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Me: Kurt Loder is 79! @funambulator: No wonder my knees hurt
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As tomorrow’s #MetGala approaches, I would like to remind everyone that while the part you may be most familiar with is the red carpet event, the *actual* department the Met Gala funds is the unglamorous thing you don’t think about the other 364 days/year…the Costume Institute.
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a request to bring back the boobquet
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America. Charles James (1906-1978) "L’Sylphide," 1937. Ivory silk organza and satin, pink silk and faille, and grosgrain ribbon. ©️ @FIT #Fashionhistory
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An important turning point in your fashion journey is realizing you can love fashion deeply and yet spend most of your time dressed like you’ve just run to the store to buy a dozen eggs.
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They’re doing spider science over on the Sephora Reddit
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there are rumors. that someone came down the chimney last night. this is preposterous. i would have lost my mind
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the Humpty Dumpty rhyme is like “a man fell off a wall and was irreparably harmed” and everyone was like “he was, I assume, an enormous egg”
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KyCIR@KentuckyCIR31 Oct 2023
It's gettin' COLD 🥶 Heating is a legal right in Louisville. If your landlord isn’t providing it, then there are some resources to assist you. lpm.org/news/2023-10-30/loui…
Louisville landlords are required to provide heat. What if they don’t?

Louisville landlords are required to provide heat. What if they don’t?

Heating is a legal right in Louisville. If your landlord isn’t providing it, then there are some resources to assist you.

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Louisville paid $20K to sponsor for-profit racial equity conference for white women courier-journal.com/story/ne… Nice reporting from @JWoodJourno and Eleanor McCrary on this weird-ass conference.
Louisville paid $20K to sponsor for-profit racial equity conference for white women

Louisville paid $20K to sponsor for-profit racial equity conference for white women

The company is charging $1,500 for tickets to the three-day event for "inclined white women."

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Jacob Munoz@jmunoz1_19 Sep 2023
Louisville's public safety committee just passed an ordinance to ban the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores and at outdoor venues like flea markets. It moves to Metro Council for a full vote as soon as next week. These bans have gained US traction over puppy mill concerns.
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So the @WFPLNews room in downtown Louisville smells like farts today. BUT IT'S NOT JUST US. If you want to learn about the magical world of why Louisville sewer odors follow along.
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it’s important to maintain a daily routine
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Transgender activist Emma Curtis is the new president of the Fayette County Young Democrats. She spoke with WFPL's @divya_krthk about why Gen Z and LGBTQ+ candidates are trying to get a seat at the table. lpm.org/news/2023-08-19/emma…
Emma Curtis reflects on how Gen Z, LGBTQ+ people approach political organizing

Emma Curtis reflects on how Gen Z, LGBTQ+ people approach political organizing

Emma Curtis is the new president of the Fayette County Young Democrats. She said she's the first openly transgender person to hold the position.

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Longtime Louisville Public Media host and editor Rick Howlett died on Saturday night. Rick came to WFPL in 2001 but had been on the radio in Kentucky since 1984. He was a trusted voice for our community. And he was beloved by his family and colleagues. lpm.org/news/2023-08-13/rick…
Rick Howlett, veteran broadcast journalist and longtime WFPL host, has died

Rick Howlett, veteran broadcast journalist and longtime WFPL host, has died

Rick wore many hats at LPM; most recently he hosted midday newscasts and our talk show, “In Conversation.”

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Josh Wood@JWoodJourno10 Aug 2023
In 2020, then-Mayor Greg Fischer said SummerWorks “helps level the playing field for young people who are growing up in poverty or who lack the family connections that can be so important in landing that first job.”
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Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg's administration presented SummerWorks as a program that prioritized disadvantaged youth in its job matching process. Two mayor's office interns hired through SummerWorks have close Greenberg ties. My latest: courier-journal.com/story/ne…
Interns with Greenberg ties hired through SummerWorks program aimed at disadvantaged youth

Interns with Greenberg ties hired through SummerWorks program aimed at disadvantaged youth

In sharp contrast to the SummerWorks goal, some of the interns come from Louisville's wealthiest, most-recognizable families.

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