Stephanie Metzger-Lawrence
Digital ProducerExpertise: Digital storytelling, social media strategy, digital content creation, health, sports
Education: Cleveland State University - Bachelor of Arts
Ontario High School - Ontario, Ohio
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
Experience:
Stephanie Metzger-Lawrence is a digital producer for Ideastream's engaged journalism team. Her journalism career began as a sports reporter for The Morning Journal in Lorain, Ohio, before she joined Cleveland's WKYC-TV as a digital producer. She also spent time in the higher education industry as the social media manager for Cuyahoga Community College prior to joining Ideastream.
Highlights:
- 2020 Regional Emmy Award
- Produced web and social media for a 2018 Edward R. Murrow Award-winning story
- Managed social media for several National Council for Marketing & Public Relations Paragon Award-winning campaigns
- Former Cuyahoga Community College Speakers Bureau presenter on social media safety and social media strategy
Why trust Ideastream Public Media?
The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.
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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or ECPR, uses machines that oxygenate and circulate the blood, giving doctors more time to diagnose patients.
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne called on the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize proposed federal clean car standards for new vehicles.
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The Center for Community Solutions' Status of Women report examined socioeconomic and health disparities among women in Ohio.
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Cleveland's Racism as a Public Health Crisis Coalition held the first in a series of community dialogue sessions on the strategies the group has identified to address systemic racism.
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Drug makers have increased the costs of several prescription medications, including Ozempic and Mounjaro. Here's what that could mean for the future of weight loss drugs.
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Meijer's Fairfax Market opened Jan. 16 with hopes of relieving food insecurity and providing more life to Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood.
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A grand jury returned a no bill decision on charges against Brittany Watts, a Warren woman charged with abuse of a corpse after suffering a miscarriage.
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Some Northeast Ohioans are donating blood for the first time due to new standards that include LGBTQ+ people
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Brittany Watts is facing an abuse of a corpse charge after she had a miscarriage in her Warren, Ohio home last year.
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Fifteen Northeast Ohio schools received cardiac defibrillators after completion of a University Hospitals-led challenge to ensure school sports venues are prepared for cardiac arrest emergencies.