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Jessica McMaster

@JessMcMasterKC

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National Award-Winning Investigative Reporter | Content Leader | Strategic Storyteller

Kansas City, MO
Joined March 2012
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Jessica McMaster
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That’s a wrap, Kansas City. 🎤.My position at KSHB is being eliminated, which means my time as an investigative reporter will soon come to an end. While it’s surreal and sad, the strongest emotion I feel right now is gratitude.
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RT @dysclinic: That's an important paper. 👉 It identifies different types of mast cells, which - dare I say - can result in different type….
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Things I didn’t expect to find while cleaning our son’s closet. Boys. ❤️
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Jessica McMaster
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RT @CBSNews: BREAKING: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, says it will close down after federal cuts. https….
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.
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RT @AAUniversities: "This is a cessation of critical appropriated funding for. treatments and cures for American patients who need it mos….
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An administration order to the NIH to cease critical appropriated funding for ongoing and new clinical trials of treatments and cures for American patients who need it most would end ongoing life-s...
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Jessica McMaster
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Promising research on gene therapy 🙌.
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Mayo Clinic
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Mayo Clinic researchers have reported a successful, first-in-human, phase 1 clinical trial of a novel gene therapy for osteoarthritis. Learn more:
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RT @tessfalor: Halfway home. Made it to Mackinaw. Fyi, if you didn't know, Michigan is beautiful!
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That, opening the windows for the first time in months, feeling…
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Jessica McMaster
11 days
Finally sat out on the deck tonight.
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Caitlin Knute-KSHB 41 News
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Thank goodness! Finally, some relief!.
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Jessica McMaster
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Took a nice stroll along the beach of Lake Huron this morning. While I grew up in Michigan, there are so many beautiful places I’m still discovering. (Sidenote: my son painted my nails)
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Jessica McMaster
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.@WIRED has done the absolute best reporting on DOGE and now the Epstein case.
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Jessica McMaster
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RT @propublica: Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions execs at the insuranc….
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Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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RT @MattGrantKXAN: NEW: Kerrville didn't have weather sirens used by other cities; Kerr County had asked for $ for new flood warning system….
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Outdoor weather alert systems are not required by any federal or state law. The choice is left up to local leaders.
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RT @GMA: “I had about 200 kids — scared, cold, and terrified. Probably the worst day of their lives.”. Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Rus….
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RT @CBSNews: Companies have reported more than 744,000 job cuts this year — the highest figure since the first six months of 2020, accordin….
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Companies have reported more than 744,000 job cuts this year — the highest figure since the first six months of 2020, according to an outplacement firm.
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RT @amyrochlin: Neuroinflammation doesn’t stay in one lane. This new Science review shows how immune activation drives damage in MS, stroke….
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The brain’s response to injury includes the activation of intrinsic microglia and the influx of leukocytes, collectively constituting neuroinflammation, the “flame” of the brain. Although details...
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Jessica McMaster
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RT @bradyafr: This time-lapse of air traffic over the Middle East shows how civilian airspace cleared after Israel’s operation against Iran….
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Jessica McMaster
2 months
For my Marion followers, a new podcast just dropped on the raids. You’ll get to hear from me as Brian digs through the layers of this national story. Give it a listen and let’s start a chat about it over the next few days.
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Brian Reed (brihreed.bsky.social)
2 months
A TV reporter in Kansas City, @JessMcMasterKC, hears that cops raided a tiny newspaper 2 hrs away from her. The police chief who oversaw the raids had just left Kansas City PD under questionable circumstances. So she heads to Marion to see what she can find out. Link ⬇️.
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RT @Cokedupoptions: AP US history is going to be INSANE in 2100.
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RT @sherman_news: Immigrants held inside a federal prison in northeast Kansas report an unsanitary, inequitable and unhealthy environment t….
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Immigrants being held inside a federal prison in Kansas and their attorneys reported an unsanitary, inequitable and unhealthy environment that has left people, even those who have won their immigra...
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If vaccine makers and other public health officials don’t see the marketing value in this, they’ve missed their moment.
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