Multimedia journalist. Player development with the @miamiheat. Previously @google + @apple + @adobe. Shadow Wolf. Social media manager for @whitehouse.
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Joined February 2009
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Andres David Lopez retweeted
Hats off to @WIRED for this candid journalistic self-examination. The last two paragraphs are a gut punch. RIP Joe Rago, whom I interviewed during the reporting and writing of Bad Blood. apple.news/AwgktUs6RRP2bV0Nj…
Andres David Lopez retweeted
Anyone who finds it boring is doing it wrong, and doing journalism for bad reasons
“I was asked the other day if local journalism was boring, and I was like, ‘It may be boring, but it’s necessary.’”
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Andres David Lopez retweeted
Translation: Would-be students are no longer willing to pay Columbia J-school $90K for a 9 month MA program
The school accelerated the decline by over-enrolling Chinese students who couldn't speak English but could pay full tuition, leading quality faculty to bolt.
Andres David Lopez retweeted
Sure. Like a canary dying in a coal mine is OK. Because nobody really fucks with that canary, right? You are adorable.
Andres David Lopez retweeted
I'd be curious to learn whether Columbia J-school will be critically evaluating the tuition.
Andres David Lopez retweeted
They are getting paid poorly is the answer relative to being overworked as well as looming job cuts around them every day.
It’s why professional antagonists who say “The Media” for everything are kayfabing people for conflict engagement.
Some DC political reporter making nice bank with a cable appearance deal or a CNN host swanning the DC party circuit is not remotely living the same life as a sports or news reporter in a small U.S. city who is grinding just to pay rent.
The latter is usually just trying to stay afloat and the motivation is often wanting to do good work for a community.
Andres David Lopez retweeted
McClatchy is now replacing real news with literal crap
Have You Tried the Fart Walk Yet? Doctors Are Signing Off on the Viral TikTok Trend miamiherald.com/living/artic…
Andres David Lopez retweeted
Journalists, I’m begging you guys before you tailor your content to the whims of racist commenters asking about legal status of shooting victims, pls try and remember that an estimated 30% of comments on politicized posts are bots
wvtm13.com/article/ai-bots-s…
Andres David Lopez retweeted
The Florida Senate threatened journalists at the @orlandosentinel and @SunSentinel with possible arrest if they published a report - that taxpayers funded - that showed insurance companies made misleading claims about losing money.
We published anyway.🧵
orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/…
Andres David Lopez retweeted
You're just trying to do right by your kids and you deserve a Governor who gets that.
Andres David Lopez retweeted
Raise your hand if you want to subscribe to a newspaper with AI generated content instead of following real journalists who actually uncover real news and tell stories by physically interviewing people, reviewing documents and gaining the trust of whistleblowers to get to the truth.
A week after McClatchy laid off journalists nationwide, the newspaper chain announced their replacements:
Editors for a new “innovation lab” focused on AI-generated lifestyle articles.
“Celebrating Our Team,” execs wrote in an email about the hires.
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Andres David Lopez retweeted
Last week, exactly 10 days before my 5-year anniversary at The Charlotte Observer, my position was eliminated by McClatchy along with 7 of my colleagues.
And it happened less than 48 hours after being told corporate had given the green light to bring back my podcast they whacked two years earlier.
This means the paper of record that has covered the franchise since its inception in 1987 will no longer have a writer dedicated to giving readers the latest daily insight on the team. Training camp starts in two weeks.
During my career in this industry, which has spanned more than 25 years, I've had my share of tough assignments. Following in the footsteps of a legend and someone whose name is permanently affixed to two areas in Spectrum Center ranks right up there.
I'm grateful, thankful and forever humbled that I was the one chosen to take on the huge responsibility. And I'm proud of the content I produced. Every single bit of it, including a recent string of nothing but exclusives.
Thanks to all those who consumed my work and musings about the #Hornets. It's deeply appreciated.
Cheers to what's next.
Andres David Lopez retweeted
I am one of the reporters who lost their jobs in the wave of McClatchy layoffs last week
Covering Miami City Hall has been fulfilling and challenging in the best way possible. Thanks to everyone who’s followed my work at @MiamiHerald these last 4 years
Stories I loved covering:
Andres David Lopez retweeted
"This is a death blow to the already skeletonized Miami Herald, once one of the country's top newspapers. I worked there for over 40 yrs, and I feel heartsick for the talented journalists who've been gutting it out while McClatchy blithely keeps swinging the axe. By the time the company is finished, all the reporters left standing will fit in a phone booth and millions of readers in South Florida will be forced to scrounge for actual, true local news on the always-reliable internet. It's tragic, but there's a lesson here: If you own a newspaper company, don't sell it to a hedge fund unless you truly don't give a shit about your readers."—Carl Hiassen nytimes.com/2026/09/10/busin…
Andres David Lopez retweeted
If any newsroom is looking for a reporter who isn’t afraid to hold officials accountable, bond deeply with sources and always ask the difficult questions, let’s chat. I’m also seeking freelance/temp work — I'm experienced in copyediting, newsletter, health, education, etc. (6/6)
Andres David Lopez retweeted
When I started at the Palm Beach Post in 1996, we had more than 20 full-time sportswriters on that staff alone, and there were more than 50 in the market. Now I’m counting a dozen total at the 3 papers.
No industry destroyed itself faster.
Andres David Lopez retweeted
Newspapers suffer some of the most severe layoffs in years.
Among them, the Miami Herald, which had some 300 journalists in 2000 and now has fewer than 50.
“Right now we are circling the drain, and that scares the hell out of me,” an editor there said.
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Andres David Lopez retweeted
Today has been, to say the least, a difficult day @MiamiHerald & across @mcclatchy. Yes, I’m safe FOR NOW to all who’ve been inquiring & I haven’t had time to answer. But so many of my colleagues, great journalists at this paper, across the chain and elsewhere, are not. They’ve lost their jobs & suddenly life as they knew it is looking a lot more uncertain. When we say support local journalism, when we, especially me, chastise you for copying and pasting stories, it’s because of moments like these. You will not always agree with our reporting or the angles we focus on, and most of us don’t get paid enough for either the job or the abuse we endure from readers (some real & others imaginary) but we are dedicated to keeping readers informed, giving voice to those who are often overlooked and dismissed and holding the powerful accountable. Do we always get it right? No. But if we aren’t doing it, guess what? To borrow from the phrase coined by my former boss while at that other paper- democracy dies in the dark. #Supportlocaljournalism
Andres David Lopez retweeted
The key phrase here being “for now.” And yes those of us who remain, will continue to dig, investigate because of our commitment to the work. @beckreports and her colleagues in our Broward operation are a talented and dedicated bunch, and I second @jkbjournalist on this: I hope someone scoops them up.
Allison's team was a newish effort by the Miami Herald to cover local communities in Broward County, the second most populous in Florida. It's hard to square laying off local reporters with McClatchy (Chatham's) goal of "reporting rooted in our communities and strengthened by sources."
You can't cover communities or gain the trust of sources without reporters covering those communities and the people who live there. You can't gain subscribers if you aren't providing real news about their schools, their budgets, their governments. And you can't cover them with artificial intelligence or regurgitated information.
The reality is the company has backed away from covering local news for at least a decade. Rebuilding those relationships with readers takes time. Now we are pulling away once again from our most important mission when readers need it the most.
None of this makes any sense. I do not know how you have a newspaper without original content and stories that impact local readers at a granular level.
The only bright side is that our investigative team remains intact for now. We will continue to dig, and break stories because our staff is relentlessly dedicated to our work, and to the readers who have supported us for the past 123 years.
Allison is a gifted journalist. I hope that another newspaper or media company who recognizes how important her work is scoops her up.