Lina Fisher is a journalist at various esteemed publications, including The Texas Observer and The Austin Chronicle. She focuses on labor issues, environmental concerns, and the opioid crisis, weaving together themes of public health and transportation policy. Lina's work has also been featured in notable outlets such as The New York Times and KUT Public Media.
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Lina Fisher's coverage focuses on local government announcements and legal policy regulations in the Austin, Texas area. She also covers topics related to transportation & logistics, government & politics, healthcare & pharmaceuticals, as well as energy.
Given Lina's focus on local issues in Austin and Texas, she would likely be interested in pitches featuring experts or stakeholders with direct knowledge of local government policies and regulations. Pitches that provide insights into the impact of these policies on housing, energy resources, transportation infrastructure or healthcare at a local level may resonate well with her reporting style.
Additionally, considering her coverage of strikes and labor unions within the city (Austin) suggests that she might also respond positively to stories involving interviews or commentary from union representatives or workers affected by labor disputes within these sectors.
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By: Lina Fisher
On a cool November evening, a lone man wearing a hi-vis vest walked calmly through a dark field at Hornsby Bend. His movements were purposeful, methodical as he went about his work, marking the ground with spray paint. A spotlight on him cast a long shadow as a shuffling jazz tune played softly. He was […]
Austin Beamon’s journey to becoming an in-demand tailor before the age of 30 began like any other Austin teenager’s: “I guess I was, yeah, a little unsure, a little lost, up in the air. I liked music, clothes, normal stuff like that, and was trying to figure out just what to do with it,” he […]
At this point, most of the Chronicle readership is probably on board with understanding the evils of mass consumerism – the myriad environmental and social ills that come with corporatized convenience. When it’s two weeks away from Christmas, though, and you still haven’t gotten your mom a gift, those moral ideals may begin to slip […]
By: Lina Fisher
Much ink has been spilled about the difference between art and craft. In the 1970s, feminist artists reclaimed what had been thought of as women’s work – and thus devalued – elevating it to the level of fine art. In 2025, it seems craft is everywhere in the art world – but often a detached, […]
By: Lina Fisher
Julia Lenoir has lived many lives. In 2022, she was working in hospice and tattooing herself casually, learning to draw botanical designs by tracing: “I started doing everything in dots, because I couldn’t pull lines on my machine. I would sit with my tracing paper over the image, and I would just dot, dot, dot, […]
By: Lina Fisher
Ceramics is one of the few art forms that involves all of the elements: earthen clay, water to shape it, fire to set it, and air to dry it. That’s what Arielle Shaves likes about it: “It brings back some childlike feeling of messing with Play-Doh, mud, playing with the earth. It doesn’t matter what […]
By: Lina Fisher
Smoking kills! And yet, the kids keep doing it – the World Health Organization now warns that nine times more children than adults are vaping, fueling a “new wave of nicotine addiction.” Teens may be teetotaling, but they definitely haven’t given up nicotine. Back in the early 2010s, Emily Schexnayder, born to two smokers, was […]
By: Lina Fisher
Since 2004, Austin Energy has been an early leader in solar generation. The sun is a plentiful resource in Texas, and when paired with battery
By: Lina Fisher
The 2024 update of Austin Energy’s carbon zero plan to 2035 was marked by a sense of urgency to meet skyrocketing demand on the statewide ERCOT grid, the specter of another Winter Storm Uri, and the need to reaffirm to the public that the city is on track to reach its climate goals, with a […]
By: Lina Fisher
Tucked between a wholesale poultry company and a hair salon on a quiet stretch of East Sixth, a sign bearing the mysterious phrase Haus Obscura beckons passerby into a shaded courtyard. That courtyard, and the tandem art gallery/print shop it leads into, was built entirely by Mark Mikhail and Heather Slingerland, a couple from the […]
