Laurel Wamsley
Laurel Wamsley is a reporter for 91制片厂's News Desk. She reports breaking news for 91制片厂's digital coverage, newscasts, and news magazines, as well as occasional features. She was also the lead reporter for 91制片厂's coverage of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.
Wamsley got her start at 91制片厂 as an intern for Weekend Edition Saturday in January 2007 and stayed on as a production assistant for 91制片厂's flagship news programs, before joining the Washington Desk for the 2008 election.
She then left 91制片厂, doing freelance writing and editing in Austin, Texas, and then working in various marketing roles for technology companies in Austin and Chicago.
In November 2015, Wamsley returned to 91制片厂 as an associate producer for the National Desk, where she covered stories including . She became a Newsdesk reporter in March 2017, and has since covered subjects including , , , and .
In 2010, Wamsley was a Journalism and Women Symposium Fellow and participated in the German-American Fulbright Commission's Berlin Capital Program, and was a 2016 Voqal Foundation Fellow. She will spend two months reporting from Germany as a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow, a program of the International Center for Journalists.
Wamsley earned a B.A. with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. Wamsley holds a master's degree from Ohio University, where she was a Public Media Fellow and worked at 91制片厂 Member station WOUB. A native of Athens, Ohio, she now lives and bikes in Washington, DC.
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Home prices skyrocketed during the pandemic 鈥� and have stayed high. For some Americans, making their budget work means having fewer children than they'd envisioned. -
For Emma, what could have been a simple dollars-and-cents decision was far more complicated. The choice before her: whether to accept a scholarship offering nearly free tuition to attend law school at Indiana University in her home state 鈥� or to pay $45,000 a year at the University of Minnesota. -
Rates saw the biggest one-week drop in a year, spurring a spike in new purchase and refinance applications. -
High mortgage rates cooled home sales over the last few years. But data released this week shows signs that things may be thawing a bit. -
Mortgage rates are finally dropping a bit lower at the end of a slow summer season. We take a look at what the latest data tells us about what's ahead.
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A recent executive order paves the way for retirement accounts to include a lot more than stock and bond funds. -
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order that would make it easier to include "alternative assets" like crypto, private equity, and real estate in retirement accounts. Is that a good idea?
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The Trump administration sent reduction-in-force notices to more than 1,400 staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in April. -
Those with equity in a home can trade up more easily, while many first-time homebuyers are still stuck on the sidelines. -
The median sales price of existing homes set a new record in June. But home sales were actually at a nine-month low in the same period.
