Alana Wise
Alana Wise joined WAMU in September 2018 as the 2018-2020 Audion Reporting Fellow for . Selected as one of 10 recipients nationwide of the Audion Reporting Fellowship, Alana works in the WAMU newsroom as part of a national reporting project and is spending two years focusing on the impact of guns in the Washington region.
Prior to joining WAMU, Wise was a politics and later companies news reporter at Reuters, where she covered the 2016 presidential election and the U.S. airline industry. Ever the fan of cherry blossoms and unpredictable weather, Alana, an Atlanta native and Howard University graduate, can be found roaming the city admiring puppies and the national monuments, in that order.
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President-elect Joe Biden tells Americans that the coronavirus pandemic will get worse before it gets better. -
President-elect Joe Biden says the people he has selected will lead his administration's "ambitious plan to address the existential threat of our time, climate change." -
The vice president, who chairs the White House coronavirus task force, is the most high-profile U.S. official so far to receive the vaccine. -
The vice president is scheduled to get the vaccine in an event that will be publicly broadcast as officials seek to calm people's fears surrounding the vaccine. -
President-elect Joe Biden said he plans to take a vaccine publicly in an effort to promote trust. Vice President Pence and his team are discussing options for how and when he will take it, too. -
On the day electors around the country voted to reaffirm his victory, President-elect Joe Biden also called for unity and healing. -
Lloyd Austin, a retired Army general, would be the first African American in the job. But confirming Austin to the top civilian spot in the Defense Department would require a waiver. -
Health experts, industry leaders and state legislators gather as the administration prepares to roll out a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming months. -
Austin will bring to the Pentagon decades of military experience. He would be the first African American to lead the department. -
The president-elect also told CNN on Thursday he would ask Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration.
