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 Frontline PBS captured this unprecedented period. Facing Eviction Since the summer of 2020, we’ve documented the impact of the pandemic on housing and evictions. We […]
Bonnie Bertram
Bonnie Bertram is a Senior Producer at Retro Report and the lead producer and Pulitzer Center grantee for Retro Report’s five-part series “Hitting Home,” about housing and evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. She was also the Co-Executive Producer of the primetime series “Retro Report on PBS.” Her short film 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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