Victoria Turner
Turner covered future of work topics for The Well News in 2021. Prior to joining the TWN team, she worked as an antitrust reporter covering policy developments and market-moving news for Acuris, where she led the Telecommunications, Media and Technology beat.
Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, she utilized her bilingual fluency to expand the Latin America coverage by reporting on cross-border reviews of multimillion-dollar deals and covering conferences in South America.
Turner brings a wide array of work experience from the private to public sectors, peppering her journalistic skills with a strong grasp of industries. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Baylor University in Texas, she moved to London, United Kingdom, where she received a postgraduate certificate in International Business Practices at St. Mary’s University College while working full-time for UBS AG’s Business University.
Upon moving back to the United States, she began working for PricewaterhouseCoopers and then moved on to the public sector to handle communications and project management for nonprofits before jumping back into her field of choice.
Recent Work
Employers added 943,000 jobs in July and drove the unemployment rate down by 5.4%, with leisure and hospitality, local government,... Read More
Employers added 943,000 jobs in July and drove the unemployment rate down by 5.4%, with leisure and hospitality, local government, education and business services leading in the hiring, the Labor Department said Friday. In remarks delivered at the White House, President Joe Biden said the report... Read More
After working for over a decade on modernizing its payment system, the Bahamas is now home to the world’s first... Read More
After working for over a decade on modernizing its payment system, the Bahamas is now home to the world’s first central bank digital currency called the “sand dollar.” For this archipelago of 700 Caribbean islands, moving to a mobile payment system “will be addressing [the] unbanked... Read More
A dimly lit silver lining surrounding the coronavirus pandemic is telehealth. This could ultimately narrow the disparities so many pregnant... Read More
A dimly lit silver lining surrounding the coronavirus pandemic is telehealth. This could ultimately narrow the disparities so many pregnant women face, said Dr. Alan Fishman, specialty medical officer for maternal fetal medicine at Mednax National Medical Group, during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event Tuesday. ... Read More
Concerned with Black mothers’ increasing maternal death rates in the U.S., members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus introduced the... Read More
Concerned with Black mothers’ increasing maternal death rates in the U.S., members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus introduced the Black Maternal Health Omnibus Act of 2021 to cover every phase of the maternal health crisis. The act should benefit all new U.S. mothers, who are... Read More
Biometric technology identifies you based on your biological characteristics: your fingerprint, your iris, your face. It can even measure how... Read More
Biometric technology identifies you based on your biological characteristics: your fingerprint, your iris, your face. It can even measure how you walk, your gait, said Steve Crown, vice president and general counsel at Microsoft, during Tuesday’s Center for Strategic & International Studies’ event on the human... Read More
The Federal Communications Commission announced yesterday that it is ready to release more than $311 million in funding for high-speed... Read More
The Federal Communications Commission announced yesterday that it is ready to release more than $311 million in funding for high-speed broadband deployment across 36 states through its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. Working to clean up the RDOF “waste” such as winning bids to deploy in areas... Read More
A panel representing the last five decades of Federal Communications Commission leadership took the helm at Monday’s Multicultural, Media, Telecom... Read More
A panel representing the last five decades of Federal Communications Commission leadership took the helm at Monday’s Multicultural, Media, Telecom and Industry Council’s FCC symposium discussing broadband for the nation. Despite a pending $65 billion infrastructure plan to fund further broadband deployment and access, all four... Read More
When Foster Care Technologies created an algorithm to match foster children with foster parents, the University of Kansas’ Innovation Park... Read More
When Foster Care Technologies created an algorithm to match foster children with foster parents, the University of Kansas’ Innovation Park was able to assist the non-profit agency’s creation and management of the Every Child A Priority software platform. Now, this research-backed management system has placed over... Read More
The Federal Communications Commission affirmed a $25,000 fine Tuesday against Mobile Relay Associates for overuse of a shared spectrum channel... Read More
The Federal Communications Commission affirmed a $25,000 fine Tuesday against Mobile Relay Associates for overuse of a shared spectrum channel and causing interference to other FCC licensees. The first notice of violation against the radio communications company was issued in 2013 by the FCC’s Los Angeles... Read More
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Elissa Slotkin had less than half an hour to reckon with a retirement announcement that would... Read More
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