Beth Fertig is a senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs. She focuses on how different New Yorkers interact with the civil and criminal justice systems. Her work explores whether justice is meted out fairly and whether programs within the courts can reduce incarceration and solve social problems. She also covers the federal immigration courts and how changes in immigration law affect New Yorkers under President Donald Trump's administration.
Beth started working at WNYC in 1995 covering city politics and spent many years covering public education. She is the author of Why cant u teach me 2 read? Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test (FSG Books) which grew out of a radio series on the low graduation rate for special education students. She also worked on the award-winning WNYC series “Being 12” and reported on efforts to promote integration in the New York City public schools. Follow her @bethfertig.
Beth is a New York City native who discovered her love for journalism at her college newspaper at the University of Michigan. She also has a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. She is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio. She’s won many local and national awards, including the prestigious Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award for Broadcast Journalism for her series of reports in 2001 about an effort to privatize some struggling city schools.
Beth also won an Edward R. Murrow award for an investigation of a subway fire. And she’s won numerous awards from the city's Deadline Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the New York Press Club -- which gave her a special award after the 2001 terrorist attacks for a profile on the friendship of two WTC survivors.
Beth Fertig appears in the following:
DACA Recipients Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Trump Administration Declines to Release Information on Immigration Enforcement
Friday, September 08, 2017
Brooklyn DA's Pledge to Reduce Marijuana Prosecutions Makes Little Difference
Thursday, September 07, 2017
Brooklyn District Attorney Candidates Differ on Immigration Policy
Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Trump Administration, Rights Groups Reach Settlement Over First Travel Ban
Thursday, August 31, 2017
In Brooklyn District Attorney Race, a Different Kind of Law-and-Order
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Study Finds the Southern Pine Beetle May be Chewing North
Sunday, August 27, 2017
New Yorkers Protest Charlottesville Violence and Trump's Reaction
Sunday, August 13, 2017
City District Attorneys Purge Almost 645,000 Old Warrants
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Twenty Years Later: The Police Assault on Abner Louima and What it Means
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Even More Immigration Judges are Reassigned in Trump's Border Crackdown
Thursday, July 20, 2017
New York Democrats Tell ICE: Stay Away from Human Trafficking Courts
Friday, July 14, 2017
Marijuana Arrests Decline in the City, But Racial Disparities Remain High
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
For Immigrant Parents, Reunification with Children Now Carries Risk of Smuggling Charges
Friday, July 07, 2017
Immigrant 'Representative' Faces $1.3M Fine for Deceptive Practices
Friday, June 30, 2017
Can New York Keep Immigration Agents Out of The Courthouses?
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Immigrant 'Representative' Loses Accreditation
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Who's Really Affected by the Supreme Court's Travel Ban Ruling
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
ICE Agents Are Showing Up In Human Trafficking Courts
Monday, June 26, 2017
When ICE Shows Up in Human Trafficking Court
Thursday, June 22, 2017
