Ginny Bixby
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Senior reporter @moco360media , covering politics and more. Virginia girl in Maryland. I have a lot of questions. past @DailyProgress , always @MaryWash . she/her.
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Despite LGBTQ+ positive govt proclamations, at least 41% of trans Montgomery County residents have reported difficulty finding gender-affirming care. I wanted to figure out why. I'm excited to finally share this story that has been months in the making:
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@CHSBlackKnights
students are staging a walkout demanding action toward gun reform following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas
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It is absolutely not lost on me that the majority of the frontline local reporters who broke the news about the UVA shooting in the middle of the night and were out there risking their safety during a campus wide lockdown are young women in their 20s who are paid <$40k a year.
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This is what yesterday was all about. Charlottesville makes flashy national headlines. But it was the work of local Black anti-racism activists who have been working so hard for this for years.
Local activists and pivotal community members
@DonGathers1
and DeTeasa Gathers hug closely after Robert E. Lee is removed from its pedestal Saturday in Charlottesville.
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The most fascinating local angle ever: Mean Girls was based on the experience of Montgomery County girls
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Good afternoon! It is a FACT that Charlottesville (and the entire country) has an ugly history of white supremacy. I’m not being “biased” or “unobjective” by stating that in my reporting. Journalists should be calling out racism and white supremacy for what they are.
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I talked to students on the Cville Youth Council who did a survey on why white families are pulling their kids out of public schools, and I have to say the two young women I spoke with are way more insightful and informed than I was at their age.
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My turn to share some, as they say, ✨personal news✨- I have accepted a position as city reporter for the Pulitzer Prize winning
@DailyProgress
in Charlottesville, VA starting next month! I’m so excited for this next step in my journalism career.
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I have bittersweet news. After the most rewarding year and a half, I will be leaving The Daily Progress on Aug. 17. This has been an incredibly difficult decision. To the people of Charlottesville — it has been perhaps the greatest honor of my life so far to tell your stories.
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Big fan of today’s very on-brand DC love stories in the
@axios
DC newsletter, especially this couple that got married at a METRO STATION
@ChelseaCirruzzo
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Time to announce my next steps: I’ll be joining
@BethesdaBeat
as their new Politics and Enterprise reporter at the end of the month! I’m so excited to continue to follow my passion of covering local news, this time in the DC Metro region in Montgomery Co, Maryland.
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I started today reporting on a fire where a person was killed, twenty were hospitalized and hundreds were displaced, and ended the day reporting on white supremacist groups inciting violence at a drag story hour.
This is one of the harder days to be a reporter, I can’t lie.
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One of the wildest things about journalism, as evidenced by what’s happening at WAMU today, is you can be a brilliantly talented reporter, you can hold people accountable, you can write stories that change lives, and your job can still be cut in an instant.
This is so wrong.
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BREAKING- City Council holding special meeting to vote to remove statue of Sacajawea and Lewis and Clark in less than 20 minutes
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People: “what was it like being a journalist in Virginia?”
Me:
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I'm really proud of this story - I spent months researching the story of Alan Feldstein, a former UVA professor who spearheaded a boycott of Cville's segregated barbershops in 1968. His family believes his activism is why he was let go from the university.
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BREAKING: Charlottesville City Councilors Hill, Magill, Payne and Snook have released a letter to the Lincoln Project condemning their stunt last week
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Also!! We need to take student journalists seriously!! The reporters at
@cavalierdaily
have been doing a phenomenal job reporting on this tragedy while they themselves are grieving
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We need to respect female reporters, respect young/early-career reporters, and we need to pay reporters more. And we needed to do this yesterday.
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Hundreds of articles, three statue removals, 2.5 city managers, and countless hours of local govt meetings later, I’ve filed my last story and finished my last shift at The Daily Progress. (Photos: me the day I accepted the job, me in the same place today 🥲)
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welcome to local journalism where for the past hour and ten minutes I’ve been listening to a council debate regulations on gas powered leaf blowers
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Knowing you’re going to wake up to horrifying news doesn’t make it easier. I feel physically ill and this isn’t even over. All I can say is the reporters who were out all night and risked their safety to get the news out are heroes. I love you, Charlottesville ❤️
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everyone’s talking about girl dinner, why is nobody talking about local journalist multiple drinks at once rotation
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I tweeted this before seeing the latest hot take circulating on this site and all I can say is that I simply cannot imagine criticizing grieving students for how they are choosing to cover the death of their classmates. UVA is holding a memorial instead of a football game on Sat.
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If you're poking around our site post-primary, you may notice I have a new title - I'm honored to share I've been promoted to Senior Reporter. I'll still be covering politics, government and everything that makes MoCo tick. I feel so lucky that I get to cover this community! ♥️
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Breaking: Charlottesville City Council votes unanimously for the resolution to remove and recontextualize the Confederate statues of Lee and Jackson downtown. Story to follow tomorrow
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I think sometimes people forget that journalists are people too. We have our own families and friends and struggles and lives, and most of us are just trying to do our best to report the news and serve the community. We want to help you, and we want to get it right.
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My career dream has always been to be in The Washington Post- didn’t expect it to happen so soon! So excited my story about the
@ACHistSoc
unmarked graves project was picked up
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We can’t understate how powerful it is, given the climate towards queer people right now, that the Grammys had Brandi Carlile’s wife and daughters introduce her performance. My heart is swelling 🥹
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One year ago today… I accepted my job at
@DailyProgress
and took this photo! Wild that the girl in this pic who took an unexpected chance on this job and Charlottesville had no idea what she was in for, meeting so many amazing people and covering a confederate statue removal?!
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Charlottesville: if your neighborhood association signed the letter to the Planning Commission asking for a six month extension of the land use map drafting process and did not hold or publicize a meeting about this to your neighborhood, please DM me!
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I wrote about Charlottesville’s affordable housing crisis and how it disproportionately affects people of color five years after Unite The Right:
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Now that I no longer cover Charlottesville City Council, I can finally make my controversial statement that the meetings bear striking similarities to the Stars Hollow town meetings in Gilmore Girls
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So, The Daily Progress is definitely going to look quite different starting in the next week. What doesn’t change is
@Knott_Katherine
and I are deeply passionate about telling the stories of this community. Please continue to reach out and share with us!
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The city of Charlottesville is opening cooling shelters for those who need refuge from the high temperatures this week - share far and wide
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2021 was one of the most unpredictable years of my life. After months of searching for journalism jobs during a pandemic, I decided on a whim to apply for a job at a newspaper in Charlottesville. I never imagined I’d end up here, and yet I have fallen in love with this city.
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I just hit six months of working at The Daily Progress. Tonight while searching for a story I wrote a couple months ago, I realized I’ve written just over 100 stories for the paper. So much has happened in Charlottesville in those six months... wow.
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I share this because I want to normalize emotions and empathy as a journalist. It’s impossible to not feel something about what we’re reporting, especially when it’s bad news. And personally, I think our empathy makes us not only human, but better reporters.
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Honored to share that I have won some awards in the
@MDDCPress
awards:
First place - Local Government Reporting
First place - Medical and Science Reporting
Second place - Investigative Reporting
Second place - Continuing Coverage w/
@Steve_Bohnel
@PotomacPeck
@courtney_cohn
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WAMU and DCist reporters and staffers have been some of the kindest, most supportive and helpful people I’ve met since I came to work in the region. I felt it was time to show them that support.
I encourage you email WAMU management and urge them to restore the DCist site. ⬇️
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Today the city began the process of removing the Lee and Jackson statue bases. I got to interview one of the contractors working on the project about the process:
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There will be a lot of national attention on the upcoming trial against the organizers of Unite The Right. This is your reminder to rely on local media coverage! We have a wealth of local news in this city.
@TylerHammel
has been following this story for months
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Two lessons from today:
1. Don’t appropriate people’s trauma for a political stunt
2. Don’t attack people who report the news for just doing their job
Hot take I guess, but these things should have been... obvious??
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Seems fitting to finally receive my physical VPA award on my last day at the Progress 🥲
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I dream of a world where national outlets actually cite the work of local reporters
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I need to issue press releases about minor victories in my life the way political candidates do about minor details of their campaigns.
"WATCH: Local journalist Ginny Bixby remembered to bring her packed lunch to work today, got to bed before midnight and also got a workout in"
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@jasonshevrin
Gonna start structuring the info in my articles with headers of important, not so important, and truly unimportant
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Listen, I like to think of myself as a strong independent woman, but I don’t think I can take another multi-day power outage
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I am not leaving journalism and I will share more about my next steps soon, but for now, Charlottesville (and sometimes Albemarle, and Nelson, and Greene, and beyond) — thank you for everything. Thank you for trusting me with your stories. I have learned so much from all of you.
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City religious leaders, activists and community members are gathered outside Charlottesville City Hall, rallying City Council and Planning Commission to support affordable housing projects
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My last story for
@DailyProgress
is one of my favorites. I spoke some of the descendants of people enslaved and believed to be buried in Charlottesville’s Pen Park. Thank you to
@ACHistSoc
and to the descendants for sharing their stories.
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I'll now be covering the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors (in addition to my Cville coverage) for the foreseeable future. Bear with me as I get used to this new coverage area, but also I'm your new contact for anything BOS related!
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Editing this transcript from a presser and I think that “it looks like Ginny Bixby had more questions” defines me not only as a journalist but as a person
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Having no power is really hard and not fun but just trying to be grateful I’m not one of the people stuck on I-95… now that is true hell on earth
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One year ago today was my first day on the job at
@DailyProgress
AND my first Charlottesville City Council meeting! I’m sappy about anniversaries, so bear with me, but I want to say how grateful I am to this community for welcoming me with open arms and sharing your stories w/ me
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Today is my one year work anniversary at
@MoCo360Media
! I can't believe it?! I've really enjoyed getting to know this community and can't wait to tell more of your stories. 💛 Here are a few of my favorites from this first year:
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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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Cville in the NYT News Quiz- still kind of surreal. Also LOL at the last option
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I’m going to be on WAMU’s The Politics Hour tomorrow to talk about everything you can expect from local politics in the new year! I’m a longtime fan of the show, so I’m very excited. Be sure to tune in to 88.5 FM at 12pm! 🎙️
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Okay we’re like an hour in but I’m going to try *my best* to give you some live updates on City Council- I am not up to
@socialistdogmom
standards but I am trying my best!
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Truly unsure how any journalist who works in the city of Charlottesville is supposed to get sleep ever
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From statue removal law to critical slope waivers, this has been the best education in local news I could’ve ever asked for. Charlottesville will forever hold a very big place in my heart.
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It is a deeply dark day when sportswriters become obituary writers.
My former colleagues are doing a commendable job covering such horror that no reporter should ever have to cover. Please read these from
@GregMadia
and
@RTD_MikeBarber
, who knew these players.
Remembering the three
#UVa
football players killed in Sunday's shooting on Grounds.
* D'Sean Perry:
* Lavel Davis Jr.:
* Devin Chandler:
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It was an honor to break the story today with
@Knott_Katherine
and
@craftypanda
, and it is an honor to be holding a press pass for tomorrow’s removal. I don’t take this opportunity lightly, and I am so grateful for all our supportive local readers who have trusted our reporting
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Some of y’all need a reading lesson on the difference between a news story and an editorial
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Worth noting that a significant number of public commenters at tonight's Charlottesville City Council meeting have called in to ask City Council to support both funding affordable housing AND schools reconfiguration and not pit these issues against each other
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The students have also taken time to read the names of those killed in the shooting at the grocery store in Buffalo and discuss disproportionate gun violence toward Black people
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March has moved across the bridge. Students chanting “what do we want? action, when do we want it? now”
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Last summer, I spoke to people who found out their enslaved ancestors were buried in unmarked graves in a city park in Charlottesville. Amplifying their story has been one of the greatest honors of my life, and I wanted to bring this story back for BHM.
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BREAKING NEWS: After over a year and half covering this county, I have finally met
@TheNimbee
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Local students are striking today at the Free Speech Wall on the Downtown Mall to demand local govt officials do more to stop climate a change
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I would estimate a couple hundred students are participating in the walkout
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My heart is with my former Cville colleagues tonight. In absolute awe of the work they’re doing in this terrifying and actively dangerous situation. PLEASE get your info from the local reporters on the ground - follow
@IsabelCleary
@sydneynshuler
@anahitajafary_
@mikekropfphoto
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First day at
@BethesdaBeat
@Bethesda_Mag
! Excited to get to know you, MoCo! My email is Ginny.Bixby
@bethesdamagazine
.com
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The day the statues came down, I was walking across the Downtown Mall carrying some of
@erineedgerton
’s camera equipment as I went to find somewhere to write my story about what just happened. A woman stopped me, saw the equipment, and asked what outlet I was with (cont.)
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covering the
@MoCoCouncilMD
Youth Town Hall and have to shoutout the kid who asked a question about the parking ordinance ZTA and used the correct terminology for it. when I was 16 I had no idea what was a zoning text amendment was 😂 some future local govt journos in this crowd!
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The idea of The Daily Progress existing without Allison Wrabel doesn’t feel right to me. 😢 Shoutout to 🎨🐼 for showing me the ropes of Cville journalism, especially in the first wild months of starting this job in a pandemic, which I couldn’t have done w/o her
After 6 years, 9 months and 10 days working for 2 companies under 4 “publishers,” 4 editors, 2 city editors and 5 ACEs, with 11 reporters, 4 photographers and a whole bunch of features/sports/web/design/copy people, my last day at the
@DailyProgress
will be May 20.
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Tell me you work in local news without telling me you work in local news: “I can’t, I have to cover the tree commission meeting tonight”
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One day I’ll get over the excitement of being front page/above the fold, but today is not that day. I’m truly humbled and overwhelmed by the response this story has gotten; thank you to all who’ve taken the time to read it! Support local coverage of local news!
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Devastated to learn there is no Olive Garden in Charlottesville what absurdity is this
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All this to say — please, please listen to the people of Charlottesville. They have a lot to say, and you will learn a lot from them. I certainly have.
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I present again without comment
I just think some people on Charlottesville Twitter should listen to this advice
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I just think the world would be a much better place if people read the entire article before freaking out on the journalist who wrote it
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A dance performance to kick off today’s Liberation and Freedom Day celebration hosted by
@descendantsuva
at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA
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