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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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News Stories by 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
Katika Lovett was appointed Bibb Schools Chief of Staff by incoming Superintendent Dan Sims.

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  • Education

Bibb School Board approves new chief of staff, bans students use of cellphones in school

Incoming Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims appointed two of his former coworkers from Atlanta Public Schools to top positions in a move approved by the Bibb County Board of Education on Thursday.

June 17, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
Two people on foot, one with a walker, negotiate the dirt path on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon after it passes under Interstate 75. The spot is one of the most deadly for pedestrians in Macon with five people killed within about a quarter mile of it since 2006.

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Free training in Macon teaches how to identify and document pedestrian safety hazards

The Macon-Bibb County Pedestrian Safety Review Board is set to offer a public training session to teach locals how to identify safety concerns in their own neighborhoods through group walking audits.

June 14, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
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