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Chicago has long debated giving CPD broader curfew powers
But an examination of how police already use those powers raises a more basic question: What does curfew enforcement actually accomplish, where is it concentrated, and who bears the consequences?
blockclubchicago.org/2026/09…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Come work with me! @CapitolNewsIL is hiring for three (!!!) positions: a Springfield-based statehouse reporter, a Chicago-based enterprise reporter and a federal government and courts reporter. Full listings here: capitolnewsillinois.com/abou…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
bringing a full crab boil to a job interview to differentiate myself and make my interview memorable
Curious about CARE?
Here’s what I learned from the @ChiPublicHealth team:
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BREAKING: CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they've notified the Trump administration that they're filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access. apnews.com/article/trump-ban…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
EVERYONE!! I DID THE IMPOSSIBLE!! I BROUGHT CHIEF KEEF BACK TO CHICAGO!!!! I INTERVIEWED SOSA FOR @Suntimes!!!!! READ IT!!!
chicago.suntimes.com/music/2…
On assignment in Chinatown this evening at the Pui Tak Center —
Dozens of residents have gathered for a town hall on the proposed Amtrak maintenance facility project
Got a few stories in the works, but here’s a quick one from me. ICYMI: Illinois’ giving away $400 to SNAP users who recently lost their benefits after new work rules went into effect.
Some personal news: moved back to Chicago and joined @Borderless_Mag . I’ll be covering the city’s immigrant communities through labor, economy and environmental justice. So honored to be on a stellar team and be back home.
New email in the bio. Write to me!
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Thank you @Poynter for this story about the reporting we did @chicagotribune last fall
poynter.org/reporting-editin…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
wapo.st/4cNY7Cm
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
One thing I would love to communicate to rich progressive donors is you have to fund ACTUAL JOURNALISM. All the progressive "content creators" rely on actual journalism done by journalists who are all getting laid off. Please fund journalism not just "our own kind of propaganda."
NEWS: The Democracy Alliance, the progressive donor network that's spent $2bn on causes/think tanks/campaigns, is directing "tens of millions" of dollars into new progressive media. semafor.com/article/05/01/20…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
Southwest suburban school district faces controversy over multiyear attempt to add Arabic language curriculum. Story by @angie_leventis and @addisonwreports chicagotribune.com/2026/05/0…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
my mentor told me good reporters are hard to manage because they’re not good at listening to authority.
and she’s right. to expect a reporter not to be defiant is like expecting to get records back immediately after requesting them.
it ain’t going to happen.
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
I am among the McClatchy journalists withholding my byline from AI-generated content. I cover sensitive stories that should never be repackaged or altered in any way by artificial intelligence. Whether the story is about sexual abuse or immigrants caged at Alligator Alcatraz, our journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair and conveys invaluable aspects of humanity that AI simply can't do.
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…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
The FBI looked into investigating a journalist for stalking because she reported on Kash Patel’s use of taxpayer resources in support of his girlfriend. The free press won’t be intimidated by such crude inquiries but it is another disturbing overreach.
nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/po…
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
POETS! @poetrymagazine is putting together a special folio dedicated to Chicago (America's greatest city). If you were born/raised here, or lived here for at least 7 years, submit your work that engages with some aspect of Chicago. Deadline is May 15: poetry.submittable.com/submi…
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Statement from on #AP buyouts today from the union's executive committee. @NewsMediaGuild
F. Amanda Tugade 🇵🇭 retweeted
It’s hard to make a living as a writer: fellowship money dries up, freelance rates keep dropping, and book advances aren’t what they used to be. Our new issue features a forum on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive.
thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends…
