Helping independent media grow with @NewspackPub. Taught @MedillSchool, @Cronkite_ASU. Worked many places, also building @govpack.
Chicago, IL
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ALSO, please VOTE! At home in your primaries, school board races, and in November but ALSO online before 6pm MT Saturday (6/25). If you’re eligible, you should have gotten a ballot by email. If you didn’t get one, or don’t know if you’re eligible, email [email protected]. #IRE22
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And a shoutout to @CCChronicle student journalists @OCohenReports and @AbraRichardson for scooping @blockclubchi earlier this week on our own good news.
@chlawrence taught them well!
columbiachronicle.com/commun…
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Jesús Celada será el candidato del PP a la alcaldía de Camaleño y Alan Ruiz a la de Tresviso
Javier Gómez opta a la reelección en Potes, Jesús Fuente Briz en Cabezón de Liébana, Jesús Cuevas en Cillorigo y Enrique Sabarís en Pesaguero
ℹ️ ppcantabria.org/actualidad/n…
#EntreTodos
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I wrote about the Chicago mayoral election...newyorker.com/news/our-colum…
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@SonnyMJiles called @NewspackPub the best thing since sliced bread at #kmf2023. @LocalMediaAssoc Is out with the numbers to back it up. bit.ly/3mFDPmA
It's been a real treat to work with Stewart and the rest of the team at Powered by Coffee on @govpack. Thanks also for letting me be a guest on your show!
Want a nice change from the collapse of Twitter?
We release the first episode of the Scale podcast yesterday.
I talk with @thefuturewasnow about how news media impacts democracy, his project Govpack helping indy news orgs show candidate profiles during election cycles and...
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Signal Cleveland is the newest in an ambitious line of digital startups hoping to secure the future of local news. And the 200th site to launch on Newspack -- demonstrating the value of shared services in an economically challenging environment for news. newspack.pub/2022/11/18/news…
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This guide takes an immense amount of work from the small but mighty @injusticewatch team (and some incredible freelancers). I'm so proud of what we've accomplished again this year and want to tell you how the sausage gets made. A little behind-the-scenes 🧵:
COOK COUNTY: Our judicial election guide for the Nov. 8 general election is here! There are 61 judges running for retention and we’ve spent months researching them all. Use our guide to #CheckYourJudges and help us spread the word!
injusticewatch.org/interacti…
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While Brett Favre was getting Mississippi to spend over $5 million of federal welfare funds in a new volleyball stadium (and receiving $1.1 million himself), the state approved just 1.42% of the poor people who applied for assistance. | @MSFreePress
mississippifreepress.org/279…
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Forty-eight suspects, $250 million allegedly stolen, and 257 pages of allegations. Eight interesting things about the alleged food-aid fraud scheme involving Feeding Our Future.
sahanjournal.com/policing-ju…
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News Inside is our print publication featuring our award-winning journalism that relates directly to incarcerated lives.
Want your loved one(s) to receive free future copies? Sign them up: trib.al/DeqdIAT
ALT An image displays three covers of News Inside that deal with the deadliest federal prison, the experience of family visits and language used about incarceration and affected people.
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Super excited to be at #ONA22 representing the Data-Driven Reporting Project and @knightlab. Want to know how we can help your local organization strengthen its data capacity through investigative projects? Let's talk! my DM's are open.
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There's never been a database of who owns every property in the Bay Area, making it difficult to understand the powerful forces shaping the housing market.
So we built one.
Just enter an address.
Amazing work by @emma_stiefel @susieneilson & many others sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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From @AFPgraphics: The full route of the queue to see Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state at the Palace of Westminster
This isn't election security. It's entrapment. And it's going to end in humiliation for DeSantis. slate.com/news-and-politics/… via @slate
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Maryland’s slow crawl towards legalization also means the underground drug market has been disrupted a few times over now, @notrivia writes. baltimorebeat.com/maryland-c…
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The inaugural .@npr #nprnextgenradio project sponsored by @stlpublicradio begins Sept 11 and concludes Sept 16.
We're proud to congratulate and announce this seven-member cohort from around greater #stl
Top row, left to right:
Phillip Clark
Britny Cord… instagr.am/p/Ch4o3BerIOQ/
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Ald. Tom Tunney’s decision to retire means new City Council leadership for all of the North Side neighborhoods along the lake, from Edgewater to Lincoln Park. @wttw news.wttw.com/2022/08/30/ald…
