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Laura Corley

Laura Corley
Reporter, Mercer Center for Collaborative Journalism
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Laura Corley is Civic Journalism Fellow for Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism reporting on topics of public health and education in Bibb County. Laura is also a reporter for The Current and received a Doris O’Donnell Fellowship Award in 2021 to execute an enterprise reporting on Superfund sites in Coastal Georgia. 

Laura has worked as an investigative reporter in her home state since 2014 and has covered a range of topics including public safety, government, business and education.

At The (Macon) Telegraph, Laura used open records requests to shine light on the shadows of police misconduct, government salaries, suspicious political connections and more. Her bylines also have appeared in The Douglas County Sentinel, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia News Lab and Georgia Public Broadcasting.

The Forsyth native was named the state’s Emerging Journalist by Georgia Press Association in 2016.

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Laura Corley | The Macon Newsroom  A Bibb County sheriff deputy’s car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

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  • Law

Macon’s roads are becoming deadlier for pedestrians, but few hit-and-runs are solved

The number of hit-and-run pedestrian fatalities increased from three in 2021 to seven in 2022. Bibb County Sheriff’s Traffic Fatality Investigator Shannon Moseley said in January 2023 only one of those had been solved — the sheriff’s office had a sole traffic fatality investigator to work all deadly wrecks here since December 2021.

January 18, 2023
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  • Laura Corley
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

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  • News

A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Macon's Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

The Macon-Bibb Community Enhancement Authority is a state authority created a decade ago with the sole mission to reduce poverty in Bibb County. But many longtime neighborhood residents say the success of new and first-time homeownership in Pleasant Hill is a feat that the CEA hasn’t achieved often enough.

December 19, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
Central High School senior Gabe Deegan watches assistant teacher and parapro Madelynn Washington hold a stream of optical fiber lights in the school’s new sensory room on Oct. 25, 2022.

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  • News

Every Bibb County School will soon have a sensory room. What are they for?

At its monthly meeting in October, the board voted to expand sensory rooms to each of the district’s 34 schools to allow for a safe space where students may recalibrate, recollect and self-regulate.

October 31, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
Brain activity from an unnamed ECT patient is recorded and printed out onto a chart for doctors to review. The induced seizure is represented by the spikes in the horizontal lines. (Special to The Macon Newsroom)

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  • Health

Middle Georgia hospital uses electricity to treat depression

Gerald Miles'  anxiety and depression was constant and crippling. Modern treatments weren't helping. But electroconvulsive therapy, an older, controversial method, did.

October 07, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
Holly Huynh, talent management coordinator for Bibb Schools, welcomes new teachers at the first monthly professional learning night of the school year Sept. 8, 2022. About 170 teachers attended and all were recent career changers.

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  • Education

Career changers are helping to fill teaching vacancies

Waiving state certification can make it easier for school districts to fill vacancies amid the shrinking pool of experienced educators and fewer in college studying to become educators. Waiver teachers make up about a quarter of Bibb Schools’ teachers.

September 13, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
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