The Weekend Brief podcast for Sept. 26, 2020

Carrie Mansfield prides herself on being proactive during the pandemic. Furloughed at the beginning of April and laid off later that month, she immediately took steps to get unemployment benefits, notified her landlord of her situation and has received government aid — all while applying for dozens of jobs.

“I dispatched mobile work to our mobile technicians across the United States,” she said. “We had a remote team in our office that handled any of our devices that were inside collision centers.” She loved that job and wants more than anything to be working again.

In the weekend edition of The Brief podcast, listen to why the North Texas woman says she and her husband are still struggling more than five months later.

Alana Rocha was the director of news partnerships for The Texas Tribune until June 2022. She was previously a multimedia reporter, after working in television and radio news for eight years. Alana covered...

Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned...

Faith Castle was a 2020 multimedia fellow. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Faith is a co-founder of BlackPrint, UT’s only Black interest publication. She has worked as a multimedia intern...