Lauren Bavis
Digital editor, Side Effects and WFYILauren Bavis is a digital editor based at WFYI in Indianapolis. She was part of the Side Effects Public Media team named Indiana’s Journalists of the Year in 2019 by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists. With Jake Harper she co-hosted Sick, a podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. Bavis graduated from Towson University and moved to Indiana in 2012, where she began her career as a newspaper reporter. She previously reported on health and social services and was the digital projects and social media editor for The Herald-Times in Bloomington. She can be reached at lbavis@wfyi.org.
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The Indiana Repertory Theatre has performed “A Christmas Carol” for almost 30 years. But this year’s final performance starts a little differently.The…
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Health care was a big campaign issue across the Midwest, and Tuesday's election results were mixed. Among the winners: medical marijuana.Many Democratic…
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Across the Midwest, health care has emerged as one of the year’s biggest campaign flash points — in races from U.S. Senate to state attorney general.In…
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Indiana suspended a Medicaid policy that locked participants out of coverage for failing to confirm their eligibility for health care with the state.The…
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The eighth graders who dashed around the classroom sounded like parrots in a pet store. The students asked each other the same question over and over.“Can…
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Steve Dillman thinks he can trace his prostate cancer back to August 1, 1985.That’s when Indianapolis Fire Station 11 was dispatched downtown. The…
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Blood has a distinct, coppery scent. If that's what Brandon Dreiman smelled when he stepped off the fire truck, he knew his job wasn’t going to be…
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Nearly one in five Hoosier children doesn't have regular access to healthy food.At Richmond Community Schools in Wayne County, enough students qualify for…
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On a sunny Saturday morning, Samantha Wilmot helped a customer pick a fresh cantaloupe the best way she knows how, by smell. Satisfied, she accepted a few…
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More nurse practitioners are stepping up to meet the needs of Hoosier patients as Indiana grapples with a shortage of primary care doctors.Nurse…