SpaceX ‘pinky promises’ no bad impacts for Louisiana locals — then forced to backtrack
In a tense meeting, SpaceX managers told locals the massive spaceport won’t affect them at all. Then locals pressed for specifics.
Jana Rose Schleis
Jana Rose Schleis is a contributing reporter at the Desk, a news producer at KBIA and an instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Schleis is the reporter and producer behind KBIA’s national award-winning series, The Next Harvest, which explores solutions to agriculture’s environmental and economic challenges through on-the-ground reporting and contextual storytelling. She earned a master’s degree at the Missouri School of Journalism where she studied investigative journalism and government reporting, and her bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, where her very first radio experience came from the community station WWSP 90FM — Your Only Alternative.