Wauwatosa, Brookfield, Elm Grove reporter @journalsentinel - send tips on immigration, youth mental health, saunas, etc: [email protected]
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Bridget Fogarty retweeted
It's been a little over a week since McClatchy's mass layoffs. I wrote about what's at stake when communities lose local journalists.
McClatchy laid me off. The need for local journalism didn’t go with me. poynter.org/commentary/2026/…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
After two summers as a @journalsentinel intern, today I started as a full-time suburban reporter primarily covering West Allis, Greenfield, Greendale, Hales Corners and West Milwaukee.
Please send any ideas at [email protected]!
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
Sad to share that McClatchy is eliminating my job at @thestate, where I have covered the city of Columbia for the last 5 years.
I’ll be at the paper for another 6 weeks, thanks so much to everyone who has helped teach me about this city.
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
McClatchy, whose titles include The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, executed its most severe layoffs in years on Thursday, cutting newsroom staff at some papers by upwards of 40%.
poynter.org/business-work/20…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
A really sad day. This is the paper that made the nation care about Jeffrey Epstein and helped uncover the Hope Florida scandal alongside @TB_Times.
Florida needs the @MiamiHerald
The @MiamiHerald eliminated 30 positions today including excellent City of Miami beat reporter @tessriski & legend @kaufsports.
The Miami Beach beat reporter was open but won’t be filled.
Is the Miami Herald going to cover the City of Miami anymore?
Local journalism matters.
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
sigh. **taps the sign**
#McClatchyLayoffs
journalismcommunityaid.wordp…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
Gov. Jim Pillen has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. But for more than a decade, his hog business has employed undocumented laborers, The @nytimes and Flatwater Free Press found.
Read more 🔗 buff.ly/rOH1O9Q
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
Some news: After 8 years covering Wisconsin higher education, I am trying something new.
My last UW story looks at a topic I hear a lot about after I tell people what I do for a living: Admission into @UWMadison and how that's changed over time.
jsonline.com/story/news/educ…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
As the below thread recalls, we had an embarrassing rollout of an AI-generated high school sports stories program a couple years ago that undermined the efforts of real journalists like myself. Standing with my colleagues against generative AI.
#NoSlopInOurShop
Today, we are joining colleagues across the @USATodayCo network, formerly Gannett, in a Lunch Out against A.I. slop. We are calling on @USATodayCo to stop forcing generative artificial intelligence on newsrooms and to invest in the people who power our journalism. 🧵⬇️
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
Since 2023, @USATodayCo has experimented with generative A.I., including its failed rollout of Lede AI for high school sports coverage, which drew widespread criticism for bizarrely worded stories on “close encounters of the athletic kind."
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
Today, we are joining colleagues across the @USATodayCo network, formerly Gannett, in a Lunch Out against A.I. slop. We are calling on @USATodayCo to stop forcing generative artificial intelligence on newsrooms and to invest in the people who power our journalism. 🧵⬇️
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
This excellent story by @heymooly seems to be catching fire across Omaha. The kind of electric shock gloves about to be issued to U.S. immigration agents are already in use by local law enforcement.
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/n…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
NEW: 800+ USA Today Co. employees are call for the company to end its Palantir partnership.
"Our commitment to upholding First Amendment principles to serve the democratic process is in direct contrast with a company like Palantir," union staffers say.
niemanlab.org/2026/08/an-inh…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
I talked to @SteveKornacki about the Wisconsin results, whether they can extrapolate to other Dem races, and what went through his head during the viral Milwaukee results debacle.
(Also, he asked, and I explained, how to pronounce Manitowoc)
jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
ICE arrests at least 18 people, mostly in Milwaukee traffic stops, advocates say jsonline.com/story/news/loca… via @SCarson_News @david_clarey Zachary Suri & me
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
Glowing bench honors Wauwatosa’s first Black homeowner jsonline.com/story/communiti… via @BridgeFogs
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
A growing number of local govs in Wisconsin are disabling all comments on their city-managed Facebook pages, including Shorewood, Green Bay and Eau Claire.
A First Amendment expert weighs in on the legality of that step:
jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out nytimes.com/2026/05/01/busin…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
NEW: Memo from GOP guv candidate Tom Tiffany's campaign says Francesca Hong's "combination of grassroots momentum, unapologetically progressive ideology, and a platform centered on high turnout makes her uniquely dangerous in the general election."
Here's @jessieopie on Hong's momentum in the Dem primary: jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
Bridget Fogarty retweeted
‘Finn’s Rule’ to promote bus safety, keep Sussex boy's memory alive jsonline.com/story/communiti…
