Ada Wood
Freelance Work
Following my graduation in May 2021, I began working as a freelance journalist. Here's some of the work I did: Canopy Atlanta Community...
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Journalism
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Canopy Atlanta January 20222 – Current
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Freelance April 2021 – January 2022
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CNN February 2021 – April 2021
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution August 2020 – January 2021
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Georgia Public Broadcasting May – July 2020
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Georgia News Lab August 2019 – May 2020
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Atlanta Magazine May – August 2019
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The Nature Conservancy January – July 2019
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The Signal April 2018 – August 2020
Click the buttons on the right to view my author page for a specific publication.
Ada Wood
- Mar 18, 2021
- 2 min
CNN Internship — spring 2021
My main priority during my time at CNN was contributing written content for the features department. Here are the stories I wrote: How...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
Awards
During my time as a reporter, I've earned a few awards, both for individual stories and overall performance. So far, all of my awards are...
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Ada Wood
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
Print: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sept. — Dec. 2020 As an intern with the AJC, I covered crime and breaking news by writing multiple stories daily. Below I will list and...
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Ada Wood
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
Digital: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sept. — Dec. 2020 As an intern with the AJC, I covered crime and breaking news by writing multiple stories daily. Below I will list and...
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Ada Wood
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Signal: Cover Photo
Sept. 1, 2020 For this cover I took the photo and planned both the layout and design.
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Ada Wood
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Signal: Cover Design
Sept. 1, 2020 For our first issue back for the fall 2020 semester, things looked different. Both on campus and with The Signal — due to a...
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Ada Wood
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
Letter from the Editor: A Welcome, an Introduction and a Farewell
Aug. 24, 2020 In our first print issue back for the fall 2020 semester, I wrote a letter from the editor welcoming the new semester,...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 17, 2020
- 3 min
RADIO: Mayors in DeKalb & Fulton desperate for CARES funds to support COVID-19 damaged communities
July 17, 2020 For my very first radio piece, I conducted the interviews, wrote the script and recorded my own voiceover. The piece ran on...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
GPB: At Least 8,000 Absentee Ballots In Georgia Rejected For Coming In Late
July 7, 2020 While a record 1.1 million Georgians voted by mail in this year’s June 9 primary, thousands more ballots were not counted...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
GPB: Metro Atlanta Mayors Slam ‘Inequitable’ Distribution Of COVID-19 Relief Money
June 1, 2020 "Mayors in two of Georgia’s most populous counties say their cities aren’t getting a fair share of federal relief money...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 2 min
Survivor Stories: An Investigation by The Signal
June 23, 2020 This long-form, five-part investigation took weeks of interviews and digging through documents to get the full story....
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Signal: What graduation postponement from COVID-19 means to children of immigrants
May 26, 2020 "Students from the class of 2020 have faced the loss of cancelled or postponed graduation ceremonies across the nation as a...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Signal: Editorial: Why racism never died, racism still kills — and how to change that
June 5, 2020 In an effort supported by nearly 20 staff members at The Signal and signed by 10 other student organizations or Student...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Signal: Letter from the Editor: We are your voice.
June 3, 2020 While The Signal staff was working on a thoughtful, in-depth editorial responding to police brutality, I released a short...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Signal: TIMELINE: Follow daily highlights on local and national civil unrest
May 29 - June 6 For just over a week, after protests against policy brutality that erupted across the nation began in Atlanta, I updated...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
GPB: Protesters Demand Action: 'We’re Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired’
June 15, 2020 The NAACP hosted a protest at the Georgia state Capitol as lawmakers return to session for the first day since their break...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
GPB/NPR: Georgia Primary Election Day Live Updates
June 9, 2020 In this live updating story, I reported on site at the the Park Tavern polling location in Midtown and the Sandtown Park...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
FRONT PAGE AJC/GPB: More Voters, Fewer Polls Means Long Lines Likely For Georgia Primary
June 3, 2020 Compiling problems from decades of poll closures, consolidated polling locations due to COVID-19 related closures and...
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Ada Wood
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
GPB: Coronavirus Brings Changes, Closures, Extra Precautions To Georgia’s Early Voting Process
May 15, 2020 When Georgians were to head to the polls the following Monday for the first statewide election on Georgia’s new $104 million...
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Ada Wood
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
AJC FRONT PAGE/GPB: ‘This … is real to us’: Poll workers prepare for voters in pandemic
April 29, 2020 Working together with two amazing student reporters, Nicole Sadek and Mary Margaret Stewart, this story was published in...
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Ada Wood
- Apr 16, 2020
- 1 min
Letter from the Editor: If you can’t go outside, go inside
March 31, 2020 After two weeks of hectic change from the coronavirus this letter served two main purposes. As our first issue back, in...
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Ada Wood
- Apr 16, 2020
- 1 min
2020 SGA Election Season
The vast majority of this work below was done by the author or the news editor. However, I layed the framework for the season's coverage...
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Ada Wood
- Mar 15, 2020
- 1 min
What does coronavirus mean for Georgia State?
March 4 - March 13, 2020 As the coronavirus swept across the nation, its impacts were heavy at Georgia State as well. Students grew in...
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Ada Wood
- Mar 15, 2020
- 1 min
The Signal's Sex Census
Feb. 11, 2020 After conducting a anonymous and self-reported poll with 239 total respondants, I cleaned up the data, conducted analyis...
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Ada Wood
- Mar 15, 2020
- 1 min
2020 SGA Election Complaints
March 1, 2020 To continuously keep our readers update on SGA election code complaints and the results of these complaints I managed and...
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Ada Wood
- Mar 15, 2020
- 1 min
Candidates are announced and the SGA election season begins
Feb. 11, 2020 As the first to break the news, I wrote an article on who was running for each SGA office, which would be the most...
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Ada Wood
- Mar 15, 2020
- 1 min
It Takes a Team: Letter from the Editor
Feb. 4, 2020 As I took on the role of Editor-in-Chief on Feb. 1, 2020, I wrote my first Letter from the Editor to introduce myself to the...
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Ada Wood
- Jan 27, 2020
- 1 min
South River — Atlanta Magazine
October 2019 During my internship at Atlanta Magazine, I was able to get one story in print and I am so proud of the story it was. Read...
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Ada Wood
- Jan 27, 2020
- 5 min
Editor-in-Chief — The Signal
I joined The Signal on April 5, 2018. On Feb. 1, 2020 I officially assumed the role of editor-in-chief until Aug. 31, 2020. Below are the...
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Ada Wood
- Dec 21, 2019
- 1 min
Editorial: Mayor Bottoms, tear down this statue!
Dec. 3, 2019 While this editorial was certainly a team effort, with every editor's eyes on the copy before print, I was one of the...
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Ada Wood
- Dec 21, 2019
- 1 min
A review of SGA’s legislative progress: Here’s what your campus reps have done for you
Nov. 19, 2019 As the 90th Student Government Association neared the end of its first full semester, I reached out to reps at all seven...
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Ada Wood
- Dec 21, 2019
- 1 min
Anti-abortion group visits Georgia in “campus tour”
Nov. 12, 2019 When the anti-abortion group Created Equal visited campus and faced what they saw as a counter-protest by university...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Student Media attends 2019 conferences
Nov. 5, 2019 This week Georgia State’s student media organizations attended two conferences to participate in workshops, speak with...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Man killed at One12 after confrontation with security guard
Oct. 30, 2019 Reemi Codling turned 25 the night his friend was killed. But calling 24-year-old Deionte Davis his friend isn’t something...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
How Peter Minetos navigates politics as a young Republican
Oct. 15, 2019 To have shaken the hand of the vice president, the governor, multiple senators and state representatives is certainly...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Disunity at Georgia State: Perimeter and Atlanta divided on Homecoming and SGA
Oct. 1, 2019 I worked on this story alongside Sara Munoz. She reported primarily on the SGA meeting and I reported on the homecoming...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Students grapple with mold scare in three dorm buildings
Sept. 25, 2019 This breaking news coverage was released and continually updated online as the story developed. Several local news...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Food from home, on campus
Sept. 24, 2019 Phillip McCall learned everything from his grandma. She’s a breast cancer survivor, a frequent churchgoer and writes...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Who is leading Georgia State?
Sept. 17, 2019 Georgia State supports 53,562 students and 2,178 faculty members. But who is at the top of the ladder, making the...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Lawyers and students fight the barriers to access for Georgia immigrants
Sept. 17, 2019 In January 2020, the first law clinic at any university in Georgia specifically dedicated to immigration law will open at...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
The future of higher education in Georgia
Sept. 10, 2019 This article covered the University System of Georgia's work establishing its 2019 strategic plan which will guide...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Signal magazine removed from orientation
Sept. 3, 2019 After covering this story in a two-part series online, we published a summary of both stories in our print issue. Online...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
The GILEE Issue
Aug. 27, 2019 For the first print issue of the semester, under my oversight as News Editor, the news team at The Signal worked on a...
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Ada Wood
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
News Editor — The Signal
From July 2019 to May 2020, I worked as the editor of the news section for The Signal, the student newspaper at Georgia State. Below is a...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 31, 2019
- 1 min
5 Atlanta events you won’t want to miss: July 31 – August 6
Hot air balloons, CATS, and a soapbox derby Read the article online here.
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Ada Wood
- Jul 31, 2019
- 1 min
Orientation leader says they were told to ‘stay away’ from The Signal, magazine controversy
As a followup to a previous story, that covered Georgia State's decision to remove the magazine, The Urbanite, of the independent student...
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Ada Wood
- Jul 31, 2019
- 1 min
5 Atlanta events you won’t want to miss: July 17-2 // ATLANTA MAGAZINE
During my time at Atlanta Magazine, I was able to do a few weekly events post. It was a fun way to stretch my muscles at being creative...
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Ada Wood
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
The Nature Conservancy: Why Does Diversity Matter?
Under Daron Davis' byline, I contributed to providing the facts for this story. Read the article online here.
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Ada Wood
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
Signal magazine removed from Freshman Orientation by new administrator
After months of working on the summer magazine, The Urbanite, the student newspaper at Georgia State, The Signal, received the notice...
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