Mackenzie Farkus is an associate multimedia producer for The Christian Science Monitor. Prior to the Monitor, she worked for GBH News as a production assistant for the live radio show "Boston Public Radio," hosted by Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.
While completing her journalism degree at Simmons University in Boston, Farkus interned for GBH News’ higher education desk, where she focused on how schools were responding to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, and FOIA nonprofit MuckRock, where she wrote about Watergate-era attacks against then-presidential candidate and U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm. She also served as a 2019 fellow in the National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists’ annual Student CONNECT Program, where she documented efforts to preserve Louisiana’s LGBTQ+ history.
Stories by Mackenzie Farkus
- Record drought and blazes? The US Northeast awakens to new wildfire risks.
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Feast mode: Our food writer serves up a complicated holiday’s history and hits
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This ‘A bridge to humanity’: Behind a Monitor series on an underreported story
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This ‘Sharing the human stories’: What keeps our Gazan reporter going
- Podcast: Why We Wrote This Beyond the buzz: A Monitor film reviewer on the art of curation
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