Emily Udell is a writer for Angie’s List Magazine in Indianapolis. In 2009, she finished a stint drinking bourbon and covering breaking news for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. Her eclectic media career also includes time at the Associated Press, Punk Planet (R.I.P.), The Daily Southtown in southwest Chicago, and Radio Prague in the Czech Republic. She co-hosted and co-produced In These Times’ radio show “Fire on the Prairie” from 2003 to 2006.
Udell was also a field researcher and organizer for the Independent Press Association of Chicago, and helped create the first guide to independent, community and ethnic press in Chicago. She worked as an editorial associate at the national news and culture magazine Punk Planet and has contributed to Free Speech Radio News and various local Chicago print and online newspapers.
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Will Apple Feel Any Heat for Violations of Its Own Labor Code?
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Flying the Unfriendly Skies: Lufthansa Pilots Strike
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Around the Country, State Employees Rally Against Furloughs, Pay Cuts
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Conn. Workers Ground Company’s Plans to Fly Jobs Overseas
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Calif. Mineworkers Locked Out After Contract Rejection
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LA Hospital Vote Deals Blow to SEIU (Updated)
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Thousands of Chilean Miners Strike for Better Wages, Benefits
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Mining Programs Provide Job Training for Inmates. But Are They Worth It?
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A Penny for Our Work: Florida Farmworkers Protest Grocer
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Another Slaughterhouse Hazard: Pig Brain Mist
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Struggling Vermont Dairies Shaken by Federal Subpoenas
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Hyatt Continues Catching Flack over Fired Boston Workers
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High-Class Hotels in San Fran Face Cascade of Walkouts
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Stronger Workplace Democracy for Airline and Rail Industries?
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Hotel Owner Bans Spanish—And Workers Fight Back
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In America’s ‘RV Capital,’ Another Blow for Workers
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On Columbus Day, Workers Challenge N.H., Calif. Governors
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John Deere Workers Sign Major Deal Barring Factory Closures
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A Survivor’s Story of Trafficking and Slavery
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Maintenance Workers Fight for Lost Wages in Chicago
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Carnival Guest Workers Win Back Wages, Better Living Conditions
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Older Unemployed Workers Marginalized in Recession
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Workers Take Fight to Wells Fargo, but Police Turn Them Away
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Finally, Good News for Workers: AT&T, Unions Reach Deals
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Bill Would ‘Professionalize’ Gang Intervention Workers
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Tough Times Threaten Day Labor Centers
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In the Big Easy, Workers’ Advocates Fight for Wage Theft Law
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Anti-Poverty Conference Works to Build ‘Unsettling Force’
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No Legal Relief for Coal Miner Suffering Black Lung
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Dispatch
Hospital Flacks Spread Fake News
Journalists' groups are concerned about broadcast outlets using video news releases produced by pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers
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Your Flat Screen Has (Greenhouse) Gas
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Dispatch
Selling Out Grandma
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Feature
Dark Side of Russias Rainbow
Despite political, legal and religious pressures, Nikolai Alexeyev has worked to combat prejudice and secure legal and political protections for Russia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
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Dispatch
Putting the IRS to Political Use?
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Dispatch
The Gossip
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“You Know It Makes Sense”
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Feature
Where Are the Women?
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Gannongate or Nothinggate?
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Dispatch
Keeping the Faith
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Three Strikes…
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U.S. Military Drops the “Gay Bomb”
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So Wrong, for So Long
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Dispatch
Recapturing Kansas
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Social Injustice
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What Would Jesus Broadcast?
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Vidal Responds
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Culture
Imperial Amnesia
Gore Vidal on America’s current imbroglio
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Healthcare Crisis, Compounded with Interest….
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