Investigative reporting fellow at @nytimes. Formerly @themarkup, @TB_Times | alumna @Columbiajourn | Signal/đź“ž: (813) 591-0688
Raleigh, NC
Joined October 2011
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NEW: @ben_tanen and I spent a year w/@themarkup @washingtonpost examining the effects of a deeply fraught policy that determines who gets a life-saving liver transplant. It was meant to get the sickest patients a transplant no matter where they lived.
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Thrilled to share that I'm a @nytimes Local Investigations Fellow! I've been itching to dive into stories in my backyard since we moved to NC two years ago, and I can't adequately express how excited I am to do that with editors I've long admired /1
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@sarah_h_cohen and I will be examining for-profit medical services here in North Carolina /2
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Since Uvalde, Texas schools stationed police officers on every campus in the name of safety. These officers regularly use force against students, including tasers. One child was as young as 6.
Stunning work by @Amari_Clare @kristianreports @small_asher
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Realized I haven't posted this here, but I'm over on Bluesky these days:
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We hit our goal! Thank you so much to everyone who donated, we're so thrilled to be able to give our colleagues a little extra cushion.
And if you are hiring, please let us know so we can connect you!
Seven of our unionized colleagues are being laid off at CalMatters/The Markup. We're rallying to raise the remaining ~$2,200 of our GoFundMe goal to help cushion them as they job hunt.
If you can, please consider supporting these talented journalists 👇
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Seven of our unionized colleagues are being laid off at CalMatters/The Markup. We're rallying to raise the remaining ~$2,200 of our GoFundMe goal to help cushion them as they job hunt.
If you can, please consider supporting these talented journalists 👇
gofund.me/c60c1d6a
Malena Carollo retweeted
This week was bittersweet for our merged union. We were thrilled Monday to ratify our contract after months of bargaining, giving our members needed protections and raises.
This week, seven of our colleagues were notified that they are being laid off. We would greatly appreciate if you would help us give them extra cushion through a GoFundMe as they begin job hunting 👇
And if you're looking for talented newsroom members, we'd love to connect you
We are devastated to lose such talented, kind, & exceptional colleagues who did crucial and impactful work for our newsroom. We are rallying to give them additional cushion as begin their job search, and we would greatly appreciate if you would help:
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Malena Carollo retweeted
New from me and my brilliant colleagues at @proof__news
Huge investigation from @proof__news today: We reveal the trove of YouTube videos that are being used to train AI models (including Anthropic's Claude).
Yes, it includes all your favorite YouTubers - from @hankgreen to @MrBeast to @khanacademy.
proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-a…
Solidarity with y'all, so excited to see this!
🚨Exciting news from @MarshallProj
Our nonprofit newsroom is unionizing! We have united to form Marshall Project Guild, part of nyguild.org Together, we're committed to preserving the best of our newsroom and securing a future for our staff, work, and readership.
ALT A logo with purple fists in the shape of an "M." There is text that reads: "The Marshall Project is unionizing!"
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This was particularly galling:
IHS provides Native Americans w/health care services, serving 2.6M people w/the highest rate of drug- and alcohol-related deaths in the US.
It paid claims for inpatient substance use treatment for just 18 patients a year on average from 2018-2022.
The architects of the nation's organ transplant system didn't want race and income to be barriers to the life saving surgery. Yet inequity persists.
My latest investigation w @themarkup @washingtonpost @ben_tanen @elarrubia @MalenaCarollo @ryantate
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Native Americans make the liver transplant list much less than White people, but die of liver disease more often.
Despite a legal requirement to address this access disparity, feds never have.
Read @AnnieGilbertson @ben_tanen 's stunning investigation
themarkup.org/organ-failure/…
It's been a huge privilege to have bargained alongside my colleagues for this contract. So proud of our shop ❤️
WE HAVE A CONTRACT! After more than two long years of negotiating, we’re proud to share that our unit ratified our first contract yesterday that will cover us for three years.
Some details:
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NEW: Unsealed federal court documents show that the effort to force a controversial change to an algorithm determining who gets a life-saving liver transplant happened much earlier and more explicitly than previously known. Read our latest 👇
themarkup.org/organ-failure/…
This builds on our prior investigation into the effects of the policy, which we found moved livers from poorer, more rural states in the South and Midwest to states such as NY and CA
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The change was engineered by a group of executives primarily from states that do a worse job of collecting organs locally. It came after a pressure campaign involving an industry-funded lawsuit, pushed legislation, and significant internal lobbying
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One thing work from home can't replicate is the acute shame of not only eating it in front of your coworkers and spilling a full cup of coffee, but maintenance deciding to *excise* the entire stain instead of steam-cleaning it. RIP Tampa office
To whomever takes over the @TB_Times downtown Tampa office after we soon vacate it for new digs, no, this is not a secret trapdoor like from a video game. This is from @MalenaCarollo's great coffee spill of 2018 (or so). They just cut out the stain and replaced that portion.
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Malena Carollo retweeted
Another national award for my former team for one of the last big projects we worked on together! The judges rightfully called it intelligent and sophisticated. Congrats @ASankin @LeonYin and the rest of the crew and thanks @ScrippsHowardFd . scripps.com/fund/journalism/…
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Still Loading was honored with a Scripps Howard Award last night! Congrats to all the finalists, and the team that put this together. It's been ~one year since publication, and Aaron and I have been humbled by the reception and impact of the series.
The Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Innovation, honoring Roy W. Howard:
The Markup – “Still Loading”
The #ScrippsHowardAwards are happening NOW on @ScrippsNews.
Watch @themarkup’s reporting:
scripps.com/fund/journalism/…
Malena Carollo retweeted
We recently had 4 bargaining sessions in 2 weeks. We made some progress in those sessions, but we’re feeling a real lack of urgency across the table. Management has said they’re interested in wrapping things up and we need them to start acting like it.
ALT 879 days since we started bargaining. • We asked for bargaining dates one week ago. No response. • Management has been consistently late and/or unprepared at bargaining sessions. • Management would not bargain at our last session because key decision makers were unable to join.