Audrey McGlinchy covers income and affordability for the Los Angeles Times. Before coming to The Times, she was a Knight-Bagehot journalism fellow at Columbia University. McGlinchy spent a decade in public radio, reporting on local politics and housing at Austin’s NPR station and in 2021 won a national Edward R. Murrow award for her feature reporting. She is a native of Philadelphia, and once appeared in a Sufjan Stevens music video.
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