Riverside Chats

Alamdari grew up in Texas before attending the University of Missouri-Columbia and receiving her bachelors and master's in journalism. Currently, she is the senior reporter and Secreast Greater Nebraska reporting at the Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent nonprofit newsroom. Her reporting on Nebraska prisons won a 2023 Great Plains Journalism Award. We’re discussing the power of the story, navigating the saturated social media landscape, journalism’s role in functioning democracy.