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Jillian Weinberger

ProducerThe Takeaway
Jillian Weinberger is a producer for The Takeaway through a partnership with The Center for Investigative Reporting. At The Takeaway, Jillian produces stories on national and international affairs, law and justice, politics, and the arts. She also helps plans the show's future news calendar and produces live coverage during breaking news events. In 2013, she received fellowships from the International Center for Journalists and Loyola Law School's Journalist Law School in Los Angeles. Originally from Cleveland, Jillian holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and lives in San Francisco.
A militia member stands watch
Global Politics
Update: ‘Go home,’ sheriff tells armed men who took over federal compound in Oregon
Planned Parenthood
Global Politics
There’s a long legacy of violence against abortion providers in the US
Carey Mulligan
Media
Some of the earliest fighters for women’s rights star in a new movie, Suffragette
Equal pay bags
Business
California takes a big step to equalizing pay between men and women
Border fence
Global Politics
Do good fences make good neighbors? A history of border walls.
Elderly person
Health
A new drug being tested raises hopes for people with Alzheimer’s
DiNapoli and Nadler
Global Politics
USA Freedom Act co-sponsor calls the bill a good step — but says more must be done
Youth in Iran
Global Politics
Young Iranians want more freedom and a normal life — and they may finally be getting it
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, attends a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 26, 2015.
Global Politics
Here’s the royal family you should really be watching
Jumaane Cook
Health
A new study finds many insurance plans are ignoring Obamacare requirements for women’s health care
A row of abandoned houses in Baltimore, Maryland. Much of the city's housing stock is old and in disrepair, hurting the city's ability to retain its citizens.
Development
How housing and discrimination have long fueled Baltimore’s anger
Baltimore city firefighters walk past a West Baltimore residence that was set ablaze after the funeral of Freddie Gray on April 28, 2015.
Justice
As Baltimore burns, community leaders condemn violence but urge reform
Several dozen Vietnamese demonstrators protest against what they described as human rights violations in the former South Vietnam on April 30, 1998 at city hall in Orlando, Florida.
Conflict
Forty years after Vietnam, a refugee relives his journey from Saigon to San Francisco
Danielle Meitiv waits with her son Rafi, 10, for Danielle's six-year-old daughter, Dvora, to be dropped off at the neighborhood school bus stop in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Lifestyle
How a two-and-a-half block walk threatens to tear a family apart
Isaac Herzog, at rear in the center, poses for a selfie with supporters of his center-left Zionist Union at their party headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 16, 2015.
Global Politics
As Netanyahu campaigns on Iran, Israelis prepare to vote on their rent
American soldiers take part in a ceremony marking the end of their mission to fight Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, on February 26, 2015.
Health
The war against Ebola isn’t over, but American troops can still come home
Iraqi boy
Conflict
Life under ISIS rule is worse than we ever imagined, and some fighters and citizens have had enough
A construction crane rises above a condo development in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood in 2013.
Economics
How do you say ‘pied-à-terre’ in Chinese?
Michael Cera and Tavi Gevinson in "This Is Our Youth" at New York's Cort Theatre
Media
A safe space for teen girls to meet ‘non-terrible adults’ online
About 38 percent of American singles have used an online dating website or app.
Lifestyle
A dating site that gives women more control
Revenge porn can ruin the lives of women.
Lifestyle
This member of Congress has a plan to curtail revenge porn
Ukrainian servicemen patrol a village in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine.
Conflict
Deja vu in Ukraine: Russia is on the move (again)
President Barack Obama talks about legislation to offer paid sick leave for Americans while at Charmington's Cafe in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 15, 2015.
Economics
The State of the Union kicked off Obama’s push for paid parental and sick leave
A hospital security guard
Global Politics
America’s armed security guards are lightly regulated — if they’re regulated at all
Peggy Young (3rd R) and her attorney Sharon Gustafson (4th R) wave to supporters as they depart the US Supreme Court building on December 3, 2014.
Justice
Pregnancy discrimination is still widespread, but this Supreme Court case may change that
Muslim groups say their religious holidays belong on school calendars alongside Jewish and Christian holidays that many districts take off.
Education
How to avoid closing your school for Muslim holidays — end Christian and Jewish ones, too
A Palestinian man prays near Israeli police during Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi al-Joz on October 31, 2014. Israeli police declared an age limit on Friday for Palestinians wanting to enter the Old City, only allowing males ab
Conflict
Reopening holy sites for Muslims fails to ease tensions in Jerusalem
An employee demonstrates the preparation to take eggs with a needle at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu in northern Taiwan.
Health
Egg freezing may be more of a distraction than a big new perk for tech employees
People take part in the 69th Annual Columbus Day Parade in New York in 2013.
Justice
More and more cities are saying goodbye, Columbus
The exterior of the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia.
Justice
As US juvenile justice improves, West Virginia still funnels kids from schools to prisons
Fishing Without Nets pirate
Media
Fishing Without Nets tells the part of the Somali pirate story left out of Captain Phillips
A trader checks stacked boxes of cotton before loading them onto a truck inside a cotton processing unit in Kadi near the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Environment
Are GMOs really behind India’s farming success?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a news conference ahead of the 2014 Super Bowl.
Sports
The real lesson of the NFL’s scandalous September is that sports fans have power
Henry Kissinger
Global Politics
Henry Kissinger draws parallels between the current Middle East crisis and his own time in office
Sweet corn
Food
A former critic of genetically modified crops changes his tune and sings the praises of GMOs
Kevin Fisher-Paulson with his husband Brian and his sons Zane (right) and Aiden.
Lifestyle
How do you have ‘the talk’ with your black child if you’re not black yourself?
An unidentified Filipino man who sold his kidney for a transplant shows his scar while cooking at his home in a slum of Manila.
Medicine
How Costa Rica became the epicenter of the black market in kidneys
People take part in an aqua aerobics session in a swimming pool at a resort at Holetown, Barbados, March 7, 2014.
Science
Take a vacation. Your brain will thank you
All members with the exception of Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin and China's deputy U.N. Ambassador Wang Min vote in the United Nations Security Council in favor of referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation o
Conflict
The Geneva Conventions look useless in the face of today’s potential war crimes