Olivia McMurrey
General Assignment ReporterOlivia McMurrey's multimedia storytelling has encompassed a wide range of topics as well as local, regional and national perspectives. She has special interest in labor, economic, education and environmental reporting, and her work has won national and regional awards. Olivia earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a past president of Alabama Media Professionals and currently chairs the organization’s News Literacy Committee.
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A flurry of legal activity during the past two weeks includes two new lawsuits related to the controversial project and the consolidation of three existing suits. -
'The dream did come alive': A foot solider takes in a new civil rights visitors center in BirminghamIn the 1960s, Gwendolyn Sanders Gamble never thought a facility like the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Education and Visitor Center would be built. But subconsciously, she hoped for it. -
As automated license plate readers, commonly known as Flock cameras, proliferate across Alabama, criticism has followed. Here's an overview of the debate. -
The new exhibit aims to tell where people are going and why by inviting travelers to step inside a video booth and tell their stories. -
As developers build large data centers across Alabama, residents have been asking government officials lots of questions. And they're often skeptical of the responses. -
Writer Abbey Crain's infertility treatment was affected when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally children. Her story is part of a new film. -
After a family died in a house fire this spring, the city is ramping up promotion of a 12-year-old program that provides and installs free smoke alarms. -
The suit argued the state unlawfully seized control of Birmingham Water Works, a public utility it claimed the city's residents own. -
The Great Southeast Pollinator Census, which is happening this weekend, will give people across the Southeast a chance to help with pollinator conservation. -
The center seeks to apply lessons learned from the 1963 bombing of the church and to create community in Birmingham's Civil Rights District.
