Bri Kirkham
Digital EditorBri Kirkham is the digital editor for Texas Public Radio. In her role she works with reporters to help transform radio scripts into web articles. Her goal is to make stories more interactive by creating multimedia elements like infographics, maps and videos.
Bri comes to San Antonio after living most of her life in southern Indiana. She graduated from Ball State University with degrees in journalism and telecommunications. After undergrad she continued her education at Syracuse University, earning her master's degree in arts journalism. During grad school she interned at BUST magazine in Brooklyn.
Her professional career experience includes working for newspapers as a crime reporter and digital editor. Most of her reporting focused on violent crime and the opioid epidemic in Illinois and Indiana.
On her days off you can find her at the movies, on a body of water or at a restaurant trying new food. While she loves the Hoosier state, she's excited to plant roots in San Antonio and Texas Public Radio.
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The stands at the Uvalde County Fairplex were filled with community members, journalists and law enforcement officers.
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Fue todo un recinto de pie en el Uvalde County Fairplex en una vigilia para recordar a los 19 menores y dos miembros de la escuela que murieron el martes. Tres líderes religiosos predicaron y dirigieron a los dolientes en oración.
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How do changing laws impact the day-to-day lives of sex workers? And where is the line drawn between work and trafficking?
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Military servicemen at Fort Sam Houston were known to be big customers of the red-light district in San Antonio during the first half of the 20th century.
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Mary Volino was a successful madam of a San Antonio brothel in the late 19th century. One day, she decided to change her business into a rescue home.
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A brothel-owner named Emelia Garza was arrested in San Antonio for not paying licensing fees. She challenged the city, and won — forcing officials to alter their charter and rewrite the bawdy house ordinance. Soon after she was deemed insane and put in jail. Thanks to digitized records, we now know how her story ended.
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A brothel-owner named Emelia Garza was arrested in San Antonio for not paying licensing fees. She challenged the city, and won — forcing officials to alter their charter and rewrite the bawdy house ordinance. Soon after she was deemed insane and put in jail. Thanks to digitized records, we now know how her story ended.
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San Antonio had one of the busiest red-light districts in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th Century. Historians now believe that district was even bigger than they realized.
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San Antonio was once home to one of the busiest red-light districts in the country. But exactly how big was the city’s red-light district? And how did it get that way? That’s what we try to find out in Episode 1 of "Running Red-Lights."
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A vacant property that history advocates have been fighting to save caught fire late Wednesday night in San Antonio. 503 Urban Loop — a former brothel and later orphanage — found itself at the center of local controversy last summer after its owners filed a request to demolish the building.