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Bonnie Bertram
Bonnie Bertram is Vice President of Content Development at Retro Report. She was the Director of Frontline PBS’s “Facing Eviction,” the capstone in Retro Report’s five-part series “Hitting Home,” about housing and evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. She was the Co-Executive Producer of the primetime series “Retro Report on PBS.” Her short films for The New York Times on vaccine hesitancy was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award and her report on the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit was nominated for a Syracuse University Mirror Award. She wrote and produced a short film in partnership with Frontline PBS on the history of Guantánamo Bay’s extrajudicial legal status. Bonnie spent much of her career as a producer at CNN and has also worked at Time.com and Bloomberg TV. Her articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, the International Herald Tribune, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Vaccine Skepticism Is Reviving Preventable Diseases
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The Case of the Missing Park Posters: An Ex-Ranger Hunts for New Deal-Era Art
A former park ranger is on the hunt to complete a collection of posters by artists commissioned by the government celebrating national parks.
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Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions
More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.
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Facing Eviction
Since the summer of 2020, we’ve documented the impact of the pandemic on housing and evictions. We followed tenants, landlords, lawyers, judges, sheriffs and social workers across the U.S. who were affected.
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Hitting Home
To stave off a nationwide housing crisis during the coronavirus pandemic, officials implemented new housing policies, including a nationwide ban on evictions. In cities across the nation, Retro Report and PBS Frontline captured this unprecedented period. Facing Eviction (Full Documentary) Since the summer of 2020, we’ve documented the impact of the pandemic on housing and […]
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A Database Giving Clues to Vaccine Side Effects Is Open to Misinterpretation
An early warning system to monitor vaccine safety, established by the government more than 30 years ago, has been at the center of federal efforts to develop and distribute vaccinations against Covid 19. But data collected by the system, known as VAERS, for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, has also been manipulated and misused to […]
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We followed people at risk of eviction during the 2021 housing crisis. Here is what we found.
From the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic’s spread across the United States, the Trump administration took action to help keep Americans in their homes, in part as a public health measure to stop the spread of the disease. March 2020 marked the beginning of an 18-month experiment in housing policy, as the phrase “eviction […]
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Burden of Richmond Evictions Weighs Heaviest in Black Neighborhoods
An eviction moratorium has slowed filings in cities like Richmond, but it hasn’t stopped them, and Black tenants are at highest risk.
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How Decades of Housing Discrimination Hurts Fresno in the Pandemic
Decades of discrimination in Fresno laid the groundwork for a housing crisis today.
