Michaela Winberg

Reporter

Michaela Winberg is a general assignment reporter at Billy Penn, and contributes transporation stories to PlanPhilly. She also sometimes produces radio and web features for NPR.

A graduate of Temple's Klein College of Media and Communication, Winberg helped launch CoveringAddiction.com, a project geared toward finding solutions to drug addiction in Philadelphia. She was editor-in-chief of The Temple News, and spent time working at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Bellingham Herald based out of Washington state. She also helped produce a Philly pop-up podcast called Story Shuffle.

Carli Chesney receives a frog tattoo from artist Brianna Ballinghoof at Eddie’s Tattoo in Philadelphia’s Chinatown

At one of Philly’s oldest tattoo parlors, women are inking the art

Eddie’s in Chinatown has experienced a changing of the guard.

How the entrance to Erie Station would look under the new rebrand

SEPTA is testing out a new name for its rail network: the Metro

The potential rebrand is part of a $40 million effort to make the public transit system easier for new riders.

Flooding closes the Vine Street Expressway from Broad Street to the Schuylkill River.

Where to get help after Ida floods Philly region

A resource guide for displaced residents, flooding damage and road closures.

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