Maura Hohman

Reporter & Editor, NBCLX, NBCUniversal

United States

Editor and writer with demonstrated ability to source, pitch and report multiple stories daily; experience covering breaking news, health and wellness, parenting, food, style, entertainment and more; record of growing social media audiences by size and engagement; home cook; occasional stand-up comic; Mizzou J School and Georgetown grad. Reach me at [email protected].

Portfolio

Pop Culture & Entertainment

TODAY.com
11/12/2020
Meet the 'greatest interviewer of all time' whose vintage clips are going viral

When you watch an interview of a movie star, you don't expect the reporter to tell the guest that they've been in "some stinkers" or to ask how they'd feel if their child was involved with their former lover. But the typical questions celebrities are asked do not interest TV broadcaster Leta Powell Drake from Lincoln, Nebraska.

TODAY.com
02/16/2021
4 Black actors in mostly white sitcoms reflect on their experience and impact

Source: TODAY When "Boy Meets World" debuted its first Black main character, Angela Moore, played by Trina McGee, in 1997, the show's creators made a conscious decision not to mention her race. She dated original cast member Rider Strong's Shawn Hunter on and off for three seasons, but the dynamics of interracial relationships still went unaddressed.

TODAY.com
04/19/2021
People are loving Kate Winslet in murder mystery 'Mare of Easttown'

Imagine a typical small-town cop character who's in over his head investigating a particularly violent crime - but the cop is a woman and she knows exactly what she's doing. That's Mare Sheehan, the main character of HBO's overnight murder-mystery hit, "Mare of Easttown," played by Kate Winslet.

Health

TODAY.com
06/30/2020
How this Black doctor is exposing the racist history of gynecology

There's one name Dr. Kameelah Phillips, an OB-GYN at Calla Women's Health in New York City, would prefer not to use in her operating room: Sims. Depending on the context, the word can mean either a surgical tool, "Sims' vaginal speculum," or its inventor, Dr. James Marion Sims. Sims is known as the founding father of gynecology, but his legacy is fraught because of how he gathered much of his learnings - by operating on enslaved Black women without their consent or anesthesia.

TODAY.com
06/25/2020
'The sickest I've been': 3 young people share what it's like to have COVID-19

It's been over six months since the coronavirus started spreading through the U.S., and public health officials have continued to stress that no one is immune to the virus. Yet there's one group of people who still may not be getting the message: As cases spike in states like Florida, Arizona and Texas, younger people in their 20s, 30s and 40s are increasingly testing positive.

TODAY.com
12/08/2020
Many Black Americans don't trust a COVID-19 vaccine. It's important to understand why‌

The name Operation Warp Speed - what the federal government has dubbed the initiative to condense the normally yearslong process of creating and distributing a vaccine into a matter of months - doesn't exactly instill confidence. In fact, many of Dr. Leon McDougle's patients, predominantly Black Americans, have pointed to just that when expressing their hesitation to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

TODAY.com
05/06/2020
Fighting an 'all-consuming' virus: A week with an ICU nurse and mom of 2

From the moment Kelly Houlihan walks in her front door after a 12-plus-hour shift fighting the coronavirus, it will be 45 minutes before she can sit down - and hours before she can finally rest. The 42-year-old ICU nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City has a precautionary process that begins when she enters her home where her husband and two daughters live.

Lifestyle

TODAY.com
08/06/2020
Is there still a toilet paper shortage due to coronavirus? Experts weigh in

When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. in March, the apocalyptic feel of the world led seemingly thousands of people to stockpile toilet paper, prompting widespread shortages. You likely saw the reports: Walmart and other retailers were stripped bare in their paper product aisles, and social media users wondered aloud why TP, of all things, topped the list of important necessities during this time.

TODAY.com
11/02/2020
How 1 app is empowering millions of voters with disabilities to hit the polls

In this year's presidential election, an analysis by Rutgers University projected that some 38 million people with disabilities are eligible to vote, representing nearly 1 in 6 of the total electorate. But people with disabilities often face obstacles to casting their ballots, from broken elevators at polling places to voting machines without any audio.

News & Trends

TODAY.com
02/15/2021
The US figure skating team died in a plane crash 60 years ago. The impact lives on

"Americans got to see these people, understand these athletes ... and then a few weeks later, they opened their newspapers to find out that they'd all perished in the plane crash," she told TODAY. "These people who probably weren't household names became household names from that weekend of competition," she added.

TODAY.com
03/08/2021
Anti-Asian violence has surged in the US since COVID-19. But it didn't start there

Source: TODAY Chinatowns across the country are struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted these communities far beyond mask requirements and limited restaurant capacity. An apparent rise in anti-Asian bigotry over the past year has also led to fewer customers for Asian-run businesses and a surge in violence, especially against older people.

TODAY.com
03/24/2021
Lena Horne's granddaughter Jenny Lumet on what she'd think of today's racial activism

Source: TODAY When screenwriter Jenny Lumet thinks of her maternal grandmother, singer and civil rights activist Lena Horne, she remembers that she used to eat Snickers with a fork and knife. It was part of what made her ladylike and sophisticated, Lumet recalled to TODAY for a Women's History Month series on the granddaughters of influential women.

TODAY.com
01/04/2021
Palmetto tree or toilet brush? Proposed state flag redesign prompts backlash

The proposed new design for South Carolina's state flag began circulating online late last month, and the social media reaction lacked any Southern niceties. The tentative design included a crescent and palmetto tree, the official state tree, on an indigo background, similar to the current but nonstandardized versions that manufacturers sell.

Variety Massive Summit
03/21/2018
Mapping #MeToo

How #MeToo evolved into a global movement across industries gender, race and class. Reporting by Maura Hohman, presented by Linda Ong at Variety Massive Summit.