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Veer Mudambi’s Biography

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Currently a freelance reporter. An active correspondent in local news since 2013, I am comfortable both following up with news assignments from an editor and pitching my feature stories independently. I have been molded by my freelance experience before and at the onset of the pandemic when community activism was key to highlight and resulting response from town and city administrations.

My work can take the form of special features or cover stories with an in-depth look at the 'how and why' w…

Veer Mudambi’s Journalist Portfolio

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Holy Cross Seeks to Diversify Academia Through its Future Faculty Institute

Holy Cross Seeks to Diversify Academia Through its Future Faculty Institute

The College's Future Faculty Institute offers scholars of color networking, interviewing techniques and other…

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Development Without Displacement: Preserving Worcester's Green Island Neighborhood

Development Without Displacement: Preserving Worcester's Green Island Neighborhood

Holy Cross professor works to raise awareness of the effects of urban development in Worcester.

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An LGBT refugee's journey: Escape is only the beginning - starting over is harder

An LGBT refugee's journey: Escape is only the beginning - starting over is harder

Awarded the 2021 Publick Occurrences Award by the New England Newspaper and Press Association. The Worces…

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Across generations: Worcester's Vietnamese community finding its voice

Across generations: Worcester's Vietnamese community finding its voice

Won First place in Racial, Ethnic or Gender Issue Coverage at the 2021 New England Better Newspaper Competiti…

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Worcester small businesses come together after 'Small Business Saturday' sales slump

Worcester small businesses come together after 'Small Business Saturday' sales slump

“People think COVID is over and people are fine, but we’re not fine" - feeling unsupported by larger entities…

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Queer community pushes back against treatment of LGBTQ+ students by Worcester Diocese

Queer community pushes back against treatment of LGBTQ+ students by Worcester Diocese

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Articles

PBN’s 2026 Leaders & Achievers celebrated and honored

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WARWICK – Gina Helm believes that to succeed, the environment can be just as important as the individual. “Find a company that values you,” said Helm, vice president and residential lending sales manager at Centreville Bank. “I was at another institution for 26 years; I’ve only been at Centreville four years but from day one
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Rhode Island lands $18M in federal grants for AI literacy programs

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| Providence Business News Verified
RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green says more than $18 million in competitive federal grants will fund two new initiatives using AI coaching and tutoring to lift literacy in the middle grades. PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Education has secured more than $18 million through a pair of federal grants to fund two literacy initiatives built around artificial intelligence, the agency said Friday.
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Federal funding cuts put nonprofits to the test

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GIVING GOALS: David N. Cicilline, who became Rhode Island Foundation CEO and president in 2023, unveiled a five-year strategy for the state’s largest funder of nonprofits in 2024. The new plan identified six community priorities that will guide the foundation’s grantmaking.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

For one job, but not as a journalist. In a legal office it was the only way to they had to write a certain type of envelope label.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email - or social media - but preferably email. Good to have a message to refer back to when following up.

Why did you become a journalist?

To pay the bills as a writer while I wrote the great American novel -then fell in love with writing a different kind of story.

Awards

Publick Occurrences Award

2021

In recognition of outstanding journalism in 2021 for “A Refugee’s Journey." The contest is judged by newspaper readers. Newspapers are evaluated for quality of reporting, writing, photography, presentation and online journalism. Award given by the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

First place in Racial, Ethnic or Gender Coverage at 2021 New England Better Newspaper Competition

2022 - Racial, Ethnic or Gender Issue Coverage

Awarded for the story “Across Generations: Worcester’s Vietnamese community finding its voice," from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in April 2022.