About Carey @careyereed
Carey Reed assists in covering breaking and feature news for NewsHour Weekend's website. She also helps the NewsHour Weekend broadcast team in the production of the show. She is interested in the flourishing fields of data journalism and information visualization and recently graduated, with honors, from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Carey’s Recent Stories
Nation Nov 22
UVa suspends fraternal activities until Jan. 9 amid sexual assault allegationsThe President of the University of Virginia announced on Saturday the suspension of activities for the school’s fraternal organizations until Jan. 9, 2015, following reactions within the school community to the recent recounting of an alleged 2012 sexual assault in…
Arts Nov 16
Saved in WWII, ‘greatest picture in the world’ to be restoredA painting by Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, "The Resurrection", which escaped destruction during World War Two, is getting its own revival.
Nation Nov 15
AT&T will no longer use ‘supercookies’ to track mobile behaviorAT&T said Friday that it will no longer use hidden, undeletable codes to track mobile users' online behaviors for marketing purposes, according to the Associated Press.
World Nov 08
Philippines marks one year since Typhoon Haiyan with a pop of colorTo mark the one-year anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan that killed at least 6,300 people and displaced millions of others, Filipino artists painted murals on the outer walls of a public cemetery in Tacloban, the city hardest hit by the typhoon…
Science Nov 02
UN report: Without action, climate change effects will be ‘irreversible’The United Nations warned Sunday that the world must get most of its energy from renewable sources by 2050, or increase the likelihood of what it called "severe, pervasive and irreversible damage."…
Nation Nov 02
Kenyans sweep New York City Marathon for second straight yearKenyans Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany won the men's and women's races respectively at the 2014 New York City Marathon Sunday, both just a few seconds ahead of their competition.
Nation Nov 02
Virgin Galactic’s ‘SpaceshipTwo’ had ‘in-flight separation’ before crashThe Virgin Galactic test flight that crashed in California's Mojave desert last week began breaking apart mid-air, according to officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which launched its investigation Saturday. …
World Nov 01
Boko Haram leader denies truce, says girls ‘married off’A man identifying himself as the leader of Boko Haram, contradicted reports of a truce with the Nigerian government, saying instead that the more than 200 girls kidnapped from Chibok, have been married off to the group's fighters.
Nation Nov 01
Federal court ruling allows NYC to implement stop-and-frisk reformsThe New York City Police Department is free to begin implementing reforms to its stop-and-frisk policy, following a federal court ruling Friday.
World Oct 26
Pakistan’s first cartoon superheroine joins fight against polioAmid a rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the country's first animated female superhero, Burka Avenger, has joined the fight to eradicate the highly-infectious virus.