Jules Feeney covers growth and the local impacts of the Trump administration for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Before moving to Tennessee, Feeney investigated a North Carolina hospital system for the Guardian US as a freelance reporter and covered climate change and solutions for the Guardian’s West Coast news desk as an editorial intern. While receiving a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Feeney reported on education, religion, and campus protests. Before becoming a reporter, Feeney worked as a deckhand on a commercial fishing boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska. He has an undergraduate degree in religion from Colorado College.
Beat: Change in Chattanooga: Growth and the impact of the new administration
Powerful demographic and public policy forces are shaping Chattanooga, its identity and its future. These forces include fast-paced growth, an affordable housing crisis, the push-and-pull of changing immigration policies and changes more broadly in federal government policy. From education and diversity to green energy and economic development, Chattanoogans and Southerners more broadly face significant changes to their relationship with government and their way of life. This reporter chronicles the local impacts as they play out.