Former disability reporter for The Washington Post & inaugural disability reporting fellow for The New York Times. Proud hard of hearing CODA. 🤟🏻
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Woke up today to find that my partner was missing & got a note from a “concerned friend” asking me, an “esteemed detective” to meet them in New York to solve the case. There was also an enclosed train ticket.
I love a good mystery. My weekend is about to get interesting.
ALT A black suitcase sitting in the middle of an apartment foyer with an envelope on top of it. The envelope has a handwritten scrawl that says “READ ME!!!”
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NEWS: NPR plans newsroom restructure and modest jobs cuts as it confronts era without federal funding.
CEO Katherine Maher says NPR intends to save $8M from newsgathering & related units; shows and podcasts not eligible for buyouts or targeted for layoffs.
Link in next tweek:
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Pretty simple story. The Post was primed to get a massive influx of subscribers and interest in the Trump 2 era — and they've produced major scoops consistently in this period — and then something very obvious stopped it all from happening.
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A non-journalist friend asked me — is losing 300 people from a newsroom a lot?
I pointed out there are about 200 journalists at the Philadelphia Inquirer and about 100 at the Baltimore Banner. Imagine losing both those publications in a day.
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The Washington Post laid off its entire award-winning photo staff.
Every photographer, fired.
The WaPo photo staff has won 5 Pulitzers, including as recently as 2019.
With a newsroom that still has 300 journalists, how do you produce a daily report with…no photographers?
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NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
nytimes.com/2026/02/04/busin…
The Washington Post has just fired hundreds of my former colleagues — all of whom were exceptional, smart and hardworking.
Please consider supporting these journalists by donating to a layoff fund meant to support them as they look for new work: gofund.me/36badfeb4
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My @washingtonpost colleagues are some of the most brilliant, bravest journalists I know. Their tireless work makes The Post what it is and makes the world a more informed place.
We need them. And we need these stories — now more than ever.
@JeffBezos, please #SaveThePost
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To do what this team does takes a village, and our employers celebrate that village when we win awards. Job cuts now risk leaving the most vulnerable behind - in conflict zones, or in environments where losing the Post's protection risks livelihoods or even lives. #SaveThePost
@JeffBezos.
As @washingtonpost international & local correspondents, we have repeatedly risked our lives, side by side, because we believe that clear-eyed reporting from the ground serves the public good. To cut off that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. #SaveThePost
@JeffBezos.
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The @washingtonpost international correspondents deliver some of the most ambitious & consequential reporting in the world — often at real personal risk.
From Venezuela to Ukraine to Gaza, this work shapes policy & gives people truth where silence is enforced.
#SaveThePost
As international correspondents and reporters for the @washingtonpost, we risk our safety to investigate authoritarian governments, report from gang-controlled towns and document evidence of stolen elections. This on-the-ground reporting is more critical than ever. #SaveThePost
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I’ve driven into hurricanes, trekked through jungles and camped on an ice sheet in sub-zero temperatures to bring you news about climate change.
If you value this work, and everything else you read in @washingtonpost, help us send a message to @JeffBezos: #SavethePost
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The work of my fearless colleagues on the International Desk is integral to what makes and has made The Post a great newspaper for decades. It is crucial to those of us who report on national security from Washington. @JeffBezos We rise and fall together. #SaveThePost
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Kostya Khudov, the Ukrainian next to me in this photo, could’ve fled Kyiv. Instead, he drove against traffic on Feb 24, 2022 to find me in the city. He stayed with our team every day since — coming under artillery, ballistic missiles, drones for us. @JeffBezos #SaveThePost
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.@JeffBezos I cover international security for @washingtonpost and reported on ISIS, Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, al-Qaeda, Iran and Israel. I’ve been imprisoned, lived under threats, and escaped kidnappings to do this work. #Journalism matters to America and the world. #SaveThePost
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Designing sports has been the highlight of my time at The Washington Post and I would be devastated if I was no longer able to do that. It was my dream to work here and I've been lucky to do that for the past 9 years.
I felt inspired to share some of my fav pages #SaveThePost
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Hi @JeffBezos. We will never forget your support for our essential work documenting the war in Ukraine, which still rages. Your wife has called our team “badass beacons of hope.” We risk our lives for the stories our readers demand. Please believe in us and #SaveThePost.
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Here’s the full letter sent from foreign correspondents to Bezos. Comes as rumors are circulating that the Washington Post is set to make significant cuts to its foreign desk and other parts of the newsroom.
Update on turmoil at the Washington Post that I’ve been following w @BenMullin: Foreign correspondents at WaPo have sent a letter, a “collective plea,” to owner Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending staff reductions, which are expected to land hard on international coverage.
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Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage.
Read more: wapo.st/4qGOx8M
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Yes, this is real. Yes, it's astonishing. Global TV, which airs 60 Minutes in Canada, uploaded the original version of Sunday's episode, including the Sharyn Alfonsi segment that Bari Weiss shelved. And now people all across the internet are watching the segment.
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Only a few states require public schools to develop plans for evacuating students with disabilities in an emergency, even as schools across the country face increasing risks from climate-related disasters and school shootings.
Read my latest story:
nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/st…
