Beth Schwartzapfel's guest appearances

Beth Schwartzapfel

Driving Forces on WBAI

The Media Narrative

Arlie Hochschild

Bernie Sanders

Andrew Yang

Gretchen Rubin

Randi Weingarten

Billy Bragg

Robert Holden

Scott Stringer

John Oswald

Michael Cohen

Walter Mosley

Rudy Giuliani

Van Morrison

Amy Zimmer

Steve Morse

OwlTail

Danny Dromm

Celeste Katz Marston and Jeff Simmons speak to New York City Councilmember Danny Dromm and criminal justice reporter Beth Schwartzapfel of The Marshall Project about Covid-19 vaccination in prisons and more on WBAI New York's "Driving Forces." Original air date: January 7, 2021.

Driving Forces: Covid and Prisons with Danny Dromm and Beth Schwartzapfel 01072021

Journalist Beth Schwartzapfel has been covering the criminal justice system for more than a decade, with an emphasis on telling the human stories of prisoners that are often overlooked. She is an award-winning reporter and staff writer at the Marshall Project, and her work has also appeared in publications such as The American Prospect and the New York Times. During our 2017 conversation, Schwartzapfel talked about her beginnings in journalism (4:00); a college-prison collaboration in Washington state (7:15); low pay for prisoner labor (12:00); moral complexity in covering prisons (18:00); her reporting process (20:30); felony disenfranchisement (23:30); advice for aspiring journalists (27:00); and how she consumes news (30:45).

<p>Journalist Beth Schwartzapfel has been covering the criminal justice system for more than a decade, with an emphasis on telling the human stories of prisoners that are often overlooked. She is an award-winning reporter and staff writer at the Marshall Project, and her work has also appeared in publications such as The American Prospect and the New York Times.</p> <p>During our 2017 conversation, Schwartzapfel talked about her beginnings in journalism (4:00); a college-prison collaboration in Washington state (7:15); low pay for prisoner labor (12:00); moral complexity in covering prisons (18:00); her reporting process (20:30); felony disenfranchisement (23:30); advice for aspiring journalists (27:00); and how she consumes news (30:45).</p>

Beth Schwartzapfel: Covering Criminal Justice