Emily Haavik

Emily Haavik is a reporter, audio producer and composer. She has spent more than a decade working in public radio and television news, and her work has been honored with national awards including the Peabody and the duPont. She loves to travel and tell stories that focus on education, the environment and criminal justice. She also fronts an Americana band.

Stories

December 16, 2024

Iowa invests in industry-favored farm pollution fix that doesn’t fix much

Instead of regulating fertilizer, Iowa backs a voluntary program that has little impact.

April 4, 2024

As states refocus reading instruction, two universities stick with a discredited idea

Other schools are backing away from a disproven theory about how kids learn to read, but programs started by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell train literacy coaches to believe in it.

September 13, 2016

It's a match. Or is it?

DNA analysis has come to be one of the most relied-upon tools in forensic criminology. Here's a look at when it's simple and when it's not.

May 12, 2016

Numbers elusive when it comes to trafficking

Estimating the number of human trafficking victims in the United States is notoriously difficult.