MAIA MCDONALD
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MAIA MCDONALD ✿
Videos and Podcast Episodes
Maia has produced and/or been featured in several videos to talk about her reporting. She’s also been a guest on multiple Chicago-based podcasts and even produced a couple. A selection of these can be found below.
Chicago’s legacy of racial discrimination continues as Black seniors face more obstacles in improving their homes and neighborhoods. A video to accompany “Black seniors in Chicago face 50/50 odds of getting home loans to make improvements,” an investigative story from the Investigative Project on Race and Equity.
An episode of Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices on WTTW, Chicago’s PBS station, featuring Maia McDonald and photographer Efrain Sorian for Borderless Magazine, discussing their reporting on recent flooding in and around Chicago.
A short-documentary Maia filmed and edited on the history of Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago in 2019 while still reporting at Free Spirit Media’s The Real Chi newsroom.
A video filmed and produced by Maia McDonald for Block Club Chicago in 2021 about Superdawg, a drive-in hot dog restaurant on Chicago’s North Side.
A stylized news video about the 2019 Windy City Coop and Eco-yard Tour, filmed and edited by Maia.
A video about resiliency that Maia worked on with Free Spirit Media and the National Science Foundations’s Learning Partnership in 2020.
Other videos and podcast episodes featuring or produced by Maia:
VIDEO: Chicago-To-Detroit Underground Railroad Trail Could Become National Park Route | On The Block (WCIU); featuring Maia McDonald
VIDEO: There’s A New Push To Protect A Cute But Threatened Chicago Salamander | On The Block (WCIU); featuring Maia McDonald
VIDEO: Pullman Softball Team Wants More Black & Brown Girls in the Sport | On The Block (WCIU); featuring Maia McDonald
Shuttered Schools Still Vacant, White Fluff Coats Chi, and Cats Get Busy | City Cast Chicago; featuring Maia McDonald*
Episode 25 | The Beverly Teen Advocating For People With Down Syndrome, Like Him | It’s All Good — A Block Club Chicago Podcast; featuring Maia McDonald*
*Asterisks indicate an audio podcast episode.