Hady Mawajdeh
Digital Engagement Reporter/ProducerHady Mawajdeh is the Digital Engagement Reporter/Producer for KERA News.
During his tenure at the station, Mawajdeh has served as the KERA's guns reporter, Art&Seek's digital editor, and the voice of the daily arts calendar.
Before joining KERA in 2016, Mawajdeh worked on “The national daily news show of Texas,” Texas Standard. While there, he crafted stories and radio segments about the topics and headlines that mattered most to Texans.
Prior to his work on the Standard, Mawajdeh lived and worked in Durham, North Carolina, where he worked as a producer at North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC. At WUNC, he was a producer on the statewide news program The State of Things.
Mawajdeh’s journalistic career began during college as an intern and freelance reporter at NPR affiliate KUT 90.5 FM Austin.
Mawajdeh was born and raised in Central Texas and he attended college at Texas State University. He's won several statewide, regional, and national awards for his journalistic work. And he's also the creator and co-host of KERA's first narrative podcast Gun Play.
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The nearly 90-year-old Texas Theatre is expanding. A plan to add a new auditorium kicked off this month, and the theater’s owners are preparing for more guests, live events and screenings than ever before.
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A new $39 million park is coming to Fair Park. It'll be free and open to the public. But can it lure people to the grounds year-round?
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Here are the highlights of the hospital’s plan to protect its employees and the preparations taken to be one of the first hospitals in America to receive the vaccine.
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After trending downward for years, domestic violence homicides in Tarrant County have reached an all-time high. This year, 17 deaths were linked to domestic violence. That’s more than double the number recorded in Tarrant County last year.
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This summer, American Airlines instituted a cargo weight limit policy that effectively banned power wheelchair users from flying to 130 airports in the U.S. But after complaints of discrimination, they've reversed course.
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The Aragonez family wanted to celebrate a birthday. But after they gathered for fajitas and cake, everyone in attendance got COVID-19. Now, they're warning people to not make the same mistake they did.
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A new report out of John Jay College in New York highlights multiple paths to reducing community violence without police.
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Democrats and liberals had high hopes of flipping the state of Texas in 2020. But from the presidency down to the Texas House, they faced disappointment. Here's a look at the takeaways for the two major parties after the 2020 election.
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As the country has grappled with police shootings, cities like Dallas and Washington D.C. have changed their policies on how and when police departments should release body camera footage.
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In recent years, Texas has been home to several high-profile mass shootings and increased gun violence. But for some reason, no one's talking about guns on the campaign trail. We take a look at the issue through the lens of the 2020 Senate Race in Texas.
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Listen to the new KERA series Gun Play this week. Hosts Hady Mawajdeh and Jerome Weeks follow Dallas' Cry Havoc Theater Company as its student actors travel across the country talking to people on all sides of the firearms debate.
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The Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to approve a $3.8 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Despite activists' outcries, council members didn't make significant changes to the police budget.