Molly Parker
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Veteran journalist Molly Parker joined Capitol News Illinois as an investigative reporter in July 2023. She was a member of the Lee Enterprises Midwest Public Service Journalism team.
Prior to that, she was a reporter at The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale. In that role, Parker exposed a housing crisis in Cairo, the state’s southernmost city, that resulted in a federal takeover of the county’s housing authority and the relocation of about 400 people from two dilapidated, WWII-era apartment complexes.
Parker is an assistant journalism professor at Southern Illinois University and a distinguished fellow with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, which creates partnerships between nonprofit and local newsrooms.
