Work from the College Heights Herald:
While editor-in-chief, I oversaw a project focusing on Bowling Green’s immigrant population. The Herald worked alongside Ball State University students who created a companion project. Here is a link to my work in the project:
‘Everyone deserves a chance’: How Bowling Green developed its foreign born population, 2023.
‘This is definitely changing sex’: Why is Gen Z having less sex than other generations?, 2023.
Coverage of the Folk Studies Graduate program being cut at WKU:
Folk Studies master’s program facing suspension pending SACSCOC approval, Oct. 22, 2022.
‘A death in the family’: Pending suspension of Folk Studies graduate program devastates former program director, alumni, Oct. 28, 2022.
‘Imminent death over surrender and execution in disgrace’: Students, alumni react to loss of folk studies graduate program, Nov. 28, 2022.
During September 2021, I worked on a story looking into Western Kentucky University’s Title IX process and sexual misconduct records alongside former Editor-in-Chief, Lily Burris. Here is the story:
Blacked out: Redacted sexual misconduct files obscure nearly a decade of university Title IX actions, 2021.
Coverage of tornado in Bowling Green on Dec. 11, 2021:
Early morning tornado devotes businesses. homes across county
Other stories:
‘I feel really lucky’: Frockt fellow starts teaching at WKU, 2023.
‘I am a real person’: How social media shapes creative lives, 2022.
Other Herald work can be found here: https://wkuherald.com/staff_name/debra-murray/
WFPL in Louisville:
- Green Folk Collective repurposes textiles to encourage slow fashion
- Louisville artists embeds Native American history, politics in paintings
- Interactive exhibit invites viewers to take candy, contemplate love and loss
- Louisville splish-splash their way through summer heat
Other work from LPM: https://www.lpm.org/people/debra-murray
Work from the Talisman:
For my final magazine story for Talisman, I wrote how dairy and produce grown on the Western Kentucky University’s farm end up feeding WKU students when eating on campus.
- Politicians are using TikTok to attract young voters
- Democratic rally brings McGrath to Warren County
The Richmond Register:
- Local birth doula shares options for parents concerned about formula shortage
- “A matter of pride’: Richmond hosts Pride festival”
- Berea utilities customers under energy advisory due to blackout
- Oldest resident at retirement community celebrates turning 103
- One man protest: EKU student takes to street to voice concern over Supreme Court decision
Other publications:
- ‘We Care About The Museum’s Mission’: Louisville Speed Art Museum Employees File To Unionize, LEO Weekly, 2025.
- Gravity Magazine Lifts Up Creative Voices From Louisville And Beyond, LEO Weekly, 2025.
- Actor’s Theatre’s 43rd Humana Festival — reported on by younger generation of arts journalists, LEO Weekly, 2019.
- Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts adapts amid COVID-19 and protests, Courier Journal, 2020.
- Pandemic pushes up election costs, WKU Journalism, 2021.
- With pandemic protests over racial injustice GSA adapts instruction, conversations on artmaking, Arts Angle Vantage, 2020.
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