Jennifer Berry Hawes
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Pulitzer Prize team winner & finalist, South reporter at ProPublica, wrote Grace Will Lead Us Home about the Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, SC
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Joined May 2011
🧵.As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurricane Helene. In 1999, I spent 13 hours in a car on a gridlocked interstate with my 3-week-old baby during the disastrous mass evacuation from Hurricane Floyd.
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Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science via @NYTimes.
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Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.
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RT @propublica: ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed t….
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited...
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The problem isn’t that there is no way to alert the public to coming disasters. It’s that local officials too often don’t use it. My latest for @propublica.
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited...
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RT @kellymnyc: As a profession, emergency management has to get its act together. We have to emerge from our complacency. Can public aware….
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited...
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RT @RepKevinMullin: Thanks @propublica for highlighting the importance of emergency alerts. In California and across the country, emergenc….
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RT @charlesornstein: ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities fai….
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited...
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RT @nytimes: Breaking News: After over 150 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the….
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The publication says the time is right to pour all of its resources into its online news operation and get its journalism “in front of the most people.”
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RT @mrsimon22: “As a profession, we have to get our act together,” McKinney said. “We have to emerge from our complacency.”. Read this from….
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RT @charlesornstein: NEW: Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It. .
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited...
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RT @propublica: New: Across the country, local authorities have repeatedly failed to use a federal emergency warning system to alert people….
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited...
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RT @DougBockClark: 1/ A high-profile rightwing activist, who pushed to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a….
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Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.
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RT @NewsHour: Approximately 20 employees at FEMA have been placed on leave after they signed an open letter on Monday criticizing the Trump….
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RT @charlesornstein: “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not refle….
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RT @propublica: New: More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffer….
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More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies,...
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RT @propublica: New: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawf….
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The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces...
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RT @NHC_Atlantic: August 16: 11:20AM AST @53rdWRS find #Erin is now a Category 5 Hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. Visit….
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The graphs in this tell quite a story.
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Disasters are big business. These charts show just how big.
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RT @propublica: New: An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and confli….
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state...
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RT @rebeccaballhaus: The Trump family’s crypto venture has generated more wealth since the election—some $4.5 billion—than any other part o….
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The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote and should “submit” to their husbands
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