Elated to share my debut BODEGA STORIES — coming in Fall 2026 from the @floridapress. This is a labor of love, one that I’ve poured a great deal of energy into outside of full-time work and motherhood. I dedicate this book to my parents.

What we know about #ThePaper, the ‘Office’ spinoff about an Ohio ghost newspaper premiering today:

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Congrats to my @Poynter colleagues @angelanfu and @itsren for spearheading this important project! Check out the new Press Freedom Watch, a tracker cataloging federal government actions affecting journalists (there's a lot. ): #pressfreedom.

“Confronting the Future of Local News” is the first report issued from the Knight Center for the Future of News, launched last month at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Got to write about one of my favorite things in the world -- book coverage. It's widely known that NPR's coverage is influential. But how does it meet the needs of the audience exactly? My latest for the NPR Public Editor's Office: #books.

"We had land records, tax records, probate records from courts, wills & testimonies that prove that we were the owners of the land for generations going back more than 175 years. But we were always trying to prove to some court. that our land was ours."

#Hyphenación is the name of a new video podcast series from San Francisco’s @KQED. But what does it mean? The answer is nuanced. Spoke with host Xorje Olivares, a self-proclaimed border kid from South Texas, about the podcast for The Poynter Report:

"We undertook this reporting because no one else was looking into the consequences of these laws, in this detail," Kavitha Surana told me after learning she and her colleagues won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. "And we’re going to continue to do it."

"Here was Jesus Christ, underwater. His eyes were closed, and his crown of thorns appeared behind him like a halo. But his outstretched arms were not, in fact, arms. They had been transformed into beady-eyed shrimp." #AI.

Thousands of deaths in Baltimore to overdoses of fentanyl. An unflinching accounting of Indian boarding schools and the sexual abuse inflicted upon Native American children. Just two of the stories that won @Poynter Journalism Prizes today:

2025 @Poynter Journalism Prize winners and finalists announced:

One thing I learned while working on this #Poynter50 profile is that the late Barbara Walters was about her business. The first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime-time television, Walters didn’t just break barriers. She rewrote the rules.

In boarding schools, many Native children were beaten for speaking their languages, denigrated, denied food, and deprived of affection. One of them was Mary Annette Pember's mother. I spoke with the journalist about this legacy in her book, out tomorrow:

Why do NPR hosts get personal on air? I spoke with several hosts to find out for the latest installment of the News Literacy Edition of the NPR Public Editor newsletter:

For #ThePoynter50 series, I revisited the moment @TMZ broke the news of Michael Jackson's death. Hope you'll give it a read. And stay tuned for more big media moments from @Poynter.

I’m pretty sure she said, “Mami! Mami!” Cultural nuance is important.

"The winds were terrifying, the howl of the winds, the howl of the flames. And then that fire, as it came down the mountain, was a little bit more selective. It felt like fingers that clawed down the land." Spoke w/@NBCNews' @GadiNBC about the #EatonFire:

I feel lucky to work at @Poynter and play a small part in trying to strengthen journalism. This #GivingTuesday, you can support our nonprofit mission to continue this work and help foster trust in our communities. Please consider donating today at

As journalists think of leaving X for Bluesky and Threads, media experts see pros and cons:

During my time in Massachusetts, I often read the work of Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham. For @Poynter, I interviewed her about a series of columns she wrote last year about Boston’s homeless: