Rachel Baye
Senior Reporter/EditorRachel Baye is a senior reporter and editor in WYPR's newsroom.
She came to WYPR in 2015 from the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization in Washington, D.C., where she covered the influence of money on state politics across the country. Rachel previously covered Washington, D.C.'s Maryland suburbs for The Washington Examiner. In 2014, she dug into political contributions to Washington, D.C. politicians by city contractors as part of a project by WAMU and American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop, and she contributed research to the book longtime ABC anchor Ted Koppel published in October 2015. Her work has appeared in several national and regional print and digital outlets and has won more than a dozen awards.
Rachel has a master's degree in journalism from American University and a bachelor's from the University of Pennsylvania. While in school, she interned at Philadelphia’s public radio station, WHYY, on the live talk show Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, and with CNN’s investigative team.
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FEMA had approved more than $9 million in ongoing projects in Maryland. -
The bill is one of 94 the Democrat signed into law Tuesday. -
On their last day in Annapolis, legislators had one eye on decisions in Washington. -
Protections for immigrants passed Monday with minutes to spare before lawmakers’ midnight deadline. -
Maryland’s General Assembly session that’s wrapping up tonight. What is still on the table? -
The General Assembly’s annual 90-day session ends Monday night at midnight. -
Senate leaders say the risk of lost funding is weighing against a bill barring local immigration enforcement agreements. -
The bill allows inmates who have served at least 20 years to ask a judge to shorten their remaining sentence. -
The body will be tasked with studying possible reparations to the descendants of formerly enslaved people. -
The Senate and House need to reconcile differences before sending a budget package to the governor for his signature.
