Biography
Willoughby Mariano is a reporter on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s investigative team. She works on projects about housing, criminal justice and corruption. Her stories have led to changes in sexual assault evidence law; the indictment of a suspected serial rapist; the repeat prosecution of a real estate speculator for blighted housing conditions; a local, state and federal anti-blight effort; the overhaul of Atlanta’s jobs agency; changes in state asset forfeiture law; the departure of the head of the organization in charge of the city’s largest redevelopment effort in decades; and the federal conviction of a city contractor. She has also won various local, state and national awards.
From 2010 to 2013, Willoughby worked for PolitiFact Georgia, the newspaper’s truth-squadding team.
Articles, Publications, and Appearances
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How the Atlanta Beltline broke its promise on affordable housing, (featuring students from the Georgia News Lab), July 16, 2017
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Bailed out of jail: An extraordinary Mother’s Day present, May 14, 2017
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How Atlanta’s housing agency for the poor might help the well-off instead, March 12, 2017
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Witnesses: Gladys Knight’s son spent on sex, pot as waffle chain sank, July 25, 2016
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Five Nights in July: The Black Lives Matter movement takes on America’s Black Mecca, Oct. 2, 2016
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Nobody Home: How legal corporate secrecy harmed one Atlanta neighborhood, June 12, 2016
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Locked Away: How Grady Hospital withheld sexual assault evidence from police, June 14, 2015
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Betting on ‘The Bluff’: As a Buckhead investor buys up a neighborhood, the properties crumble, fuel blight, Nov. 2, 2014