Lily Burris
Investigative ReporterLily works on LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team covering issues related to wealth and poverty in the state. She is also a corps member with Report For America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.
In 2022, before coming to LPM, Lily served as a tornado recovery reporter for WKMS. She became intimately familiar with the devastation that hit western Kentucky communities in December 2021, covering everything from funding and rebuilding to language barriers and environmental impacts.
Lily has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Western Kentucky University and served as editor-in-chief of the College Heights Herald, WKU’s student-run newspaper. She also completed an internship with LPM in summer 2021 and produced a story about sewage odors in Louisville’s historically underserved communities.
Email Lily at lburris@lpm.org.
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Iroquois Amphitheater is reopening at full capacity with a boxing match, theater and live music on the schedule. -
As more vaccinated people venture out, hospitals need more blood for surgeries and emergencies.
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Louisville Xtreme is no longer a part of the Indoor Football League after the board says it failed to meet league standards.
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The final piece of the Louisville Urban League Sports and Learning Campus opened Friday with the ribbon cutting of the Humana Outdoor Track & Field.
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Unlike last summer, community members will not need reservations, and capacity limitations will only last until June 11.
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A new boat ramp in West Louisville is providing Ohio River access in Shawnee Park for the first time in more than 60 years.
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Black and Asian people in Kentucky have persistent pay gaps, even with the same level of education as white Kentuckians.
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With incentives to share vaccine status voluntarily proving ineffective, Metro government intends to start requiring employees to share their status.
