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Okay, I can say it now!
I’m leaving The Star to join ProPublica as an Abrams Fellow! I’ll be based in their Chicago office and will report on the Midwest region.
Working for ProPublica is literally a dream come true, I can’t wait for this adventure to start.
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NEW: Chicago's red-light and speed cameras ticket Black areas at twice the rate as white ones.
As a result, Black neighborhoods have faced half a billion $ in penalties for camera tickets alone.
By
@msanchezMIA
and me.
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"At Naperville North High School, only 120 students are Black, or 4.5% of enrollment, but Black pupils received nearly 27% of the 67 tickets police have issued there since fall 2018."
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It is without a shred of irony that I say:
✨personal news✨
Almost two years to the day after I started at the paper, I'm joining
@indystar
's investigations team as a data reporter.
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I’m tired of surviving things.
After almost a decade without a polio case in the US, there is increasing evidence of local spread in NY after today's announcement that poliovirus has been found in New York City sewage.🧵👇
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Seriously? We publish COVID news every single day.
Being a journalist in 2020 is hard enough without us attacking each other. That screenshot is selective, and a snapshot in time, and your suggestion is an insult to the hardworking journalists serving this city.
@LongDesertTrain
@MicahPollak
@gbosslet
@srudavsky
@indyemapolis
Love to see COVID getting some major coverage in the
@indystar
... oh wait
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we're sending kids and teachers to school but no one to the Indy 500.
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“We can’t allow this madness to continue. These are our babies.”
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also as I clean out my desk I wanted to note that the balloons IMS says are biodegradable, the ones I’ve kept in water since July 2018, are still very much intact three years later
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Family Research Council says it’s a church, and gets the tax-exempt status of one.
But when a ProPublica reporter called to inquire about service times, a staffer who answered the phone responded, “We don’t have church service.”
🤔
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In which
@propublica
provides a moment of reflection for a property manager using software to push tenants out and raise rents:
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there is something very magical about reporting that leads to changes before the story is published
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Some professional news: I'm joining
@mirrorindy
as a data reporter. My work will be part explanatory, part accountability, all for Indianapolis. Email me your questions, concerns and story ideas: emily.hopkins
@mirrorindy
.org.
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Such a frustrating read, on election day no less:
How Tennessee Disenfranchised 21% of Its Black Citizens
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some professional news from me: today is my last day at IndyStar! Next steps TBA. I'm excited for what's next but devastated to be leaving all my talented colleagues. <3
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A year go I had trouble walking a few blocks. Grief and burnout had broken more than just my heart. Walking even medium distances was painful. Today I slowly ran (okay and walked) 5K and promptly burst into tears. Then I ate some dim sum. Hard things are possible, dumplings rule.
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Oh hey thought I’d mention that as of the new year it’s been a whole dang year since I smoked a cigarette. 🚭🎉
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alt-weeklies, magazines, broadcast, newspapers
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feels like as good a day as any to share this
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"Several European countries have dramatically reduced salmonella in poultry by combating it on the farms where chickens are raised.
But over the past 25 years, the U.S. has failed to bring down the incidence of salmonella food poisoning."
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I am here to tell you that you can have a bleached blond mullet and win an IRE medal.
In all seriousness, thank you thank you thank you to the
@IRE_NICAR
contest judges for recognizing CARELESS and for providing the closest thing to a group photo I have with this team.
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this is without a doubt the highest impact to effort ratio of my journalism career
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when i say i'm on the bus this is what i mean
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New from me: Sen. Aaron Freeman has been adamant that dedicated lanes, such as those proposed for the Blue Line, were not part of the conversation around the 2016 transit funding referendum. I took a look at what was discussed back then.
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I’ve always empathized with people who have had trouble celebrating days like today because of loss. I can now say that i underestimated that pain.
My mom was really kind. The death of my brother in 2018 completely broke her. She passed away last month.
Love you, mom.
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Ah yes the latest threat to our country, the *checks notes* ... League of Women Voters?
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How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts
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The cool thing about Ryan winning a Pulitzer is that he's still the guy I know who has to go to court over his rooster.
If you see some random journalist crying in the middle of Georgia Street, don't worry, it's just me
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ICYMI, read this infuriating story about an Illinois special needs school that regularly calls the police on its students. Hard to highlight the single most damning thing, so just read the whole thing.
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Ghost guns recovered by law enforcement in:
2016: 1,758
2021: 19,344
The vast majority of those were assembled with parts from a company whose leader has not been shy about fighting efforts to fix on the ghost gun problem.
@AnjeanetteDamon
's latest:
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A statistic that stops you in your tracks: "The risk of a stillbirth nearly doubled for those who had COVID-19 during pregnancy compared with those who didn’t. And during the spread of the delta variant, that risk was four times higher."
by
@deldeib
.
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More than 30k people in Chicago are waiting for a public housing unit/voucher. The city says we need 120k more affordable units. Yet the housing authority wants to lease 26 acres to a local billionaire's soccer team.
Story by
@mickeyd1971
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Rodríguez said that the truth about his son’s death “has come to light” because of ProPublica’s reporting.
"All the money in the world wouldn’t make me the person I used to be. … I would like to be able to share this with Jefferson."
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"As the nation’s hospitals fill and emergency rooms overflow with critically ill COVID-19 patients, it is the non-COVID-19 patients, like Seth, who have become collateral damage."
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Nursing home workers are supposed to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Yet thousands are reporting medical reasons to forgo the shots, reasons that are extremely rare. Here's what we found:
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Maybe a good time to mention
@Gannett
doesn’t want to offer hazard pay or protections for journalists who leave an unsafe scene.
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“It’s kind of like lead paint in schools from a decade ago … How long until we realize that this stuff is everywhere?”
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Not sure anything points to how broken our public health system is than when an infectious disease scientist *working for the CDC* struggled to get testing and treatment for
#monkeypox
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ProPublica identified the 10 institutions holding the largest number of remains of Native Americans in the country.
9/10 institutions said they are committed to returning remains and cultural items to tribal nations. Indiana University hasn’t responded.
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I regret to inform everyone that my winter coat plus the polar vortex equals kenny from south park
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The remains of more than 100K Native Americans are held by U.S. museums and universities, despite a federal law intended to lead to the return of these remains to tribes.
You can look up your favorite institution here:
Here’s how Indiana fares:
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"Some homeowners fought from hospital beds to keep their properties. At least three died shortly after signing sales contracts; a fourth died after three years of worrying about money."
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Gannett announcing its holiday gift to employees each year:
New: memo from Gannett CEO Mike Reed announcing “voluntary severance” and other austerity measures at the company:
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In the U.S., a child dies on the worksite where he lives, and it’s no one’s fault.
A difficult story, delicately told.
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This is so cool!
You have the right to vote even if you don’t speak or read English. This guide will tell you about your right to ask for help, how to vote and what to do if you have problems.
Available in 11 languages
🧵👇
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A new Congressional resolution from
@RashidaTlaib
,
@CoriBush
and
@JamaalBowmanNY
takes aim at issues at the center of two recent investigations by
@propublica
and
@media_outlier
. Read about that and other developments here:
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@AllisonLCarter
So pumped it’s finally relevant to point out this detail from Tim Burton’s Batman movie.
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Gannett's board members: private equity, rental car industry, private equity, the cruise business, private equity, and one director from Mars, Inc.
"Would it be crazy to have a board member with some expertise in journalism for a company that produces, well, journalism?"
Gannett CEO Mike Reed made $7.7 million in 2021. "He looks across the vast carnage of his work and sees a lot of unemployed journalists who are to blame."
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"I frankly think the Guild’s a big problem." -- our new boss
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Impact!
Two years ago today, a 15-year-old Black girl in Michigan — identified as Grace — was incarcerated for not doing her online schoolwork.
We told her story at
@propublica
and also exposed broader problems.
Today, a task force recommended 32 changes.
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they, and I cannot stress this enough, them
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Me filing a FOIA while the government is shut down.
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Texas police took a teenager to jail in APRIL 2020, potentially exposing him to covid, in order to ... enforce the public health curfews?
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"The field is now dominated by for-profit firms ... that developers hire to comply with the federal law. As a result, these firms can operate not as preservation gatekeepers but as lock-pickers for private industry intent on development."
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What happens when you take the full sequence of a hands-on class at
#NICAR18
Class 1: 🤔
Class 2: 🤓
Class 3: 🤖
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First day on the clock for
@mirrorindy
!
Indianapolis: Send me your story ideas, aka problems you see in your community that you think need more attention. emily.hopkins
@mirrorindy
.org
Journos: Show me your cool local data journalism in the replies. 👇
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well this is terrifying
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I know angels on earth exist because I’ve met the nurses and aids providing hospice care to my grandmother.
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At the end of 2020 I stepped down from my position as president of
@indynewsguild
to leave it in much more capable hands.
my comrades got me this amazing gift.
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As state regulators prepare for a public hearing over
@DTE_Energy
’s request for a rate hike that will bring in an additional $388M annually from ratepayers, I want to talk about Kristal Dailey, who was unexpectedly sued over a $1,500 debt to DTE in 2020.
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Just had a really unusual impulse to call my brother, to tell him that our mom is really sick.
My brother died a year ago.
A lot of us are experiencing non-covid related trauma.
I don’t know what the point of this tweet is except to say — it sucks.
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it is extremely powerful to see a woman where only men have been before.
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.
@gburton
"respectfully rejects"
@azrepublicguild
's request for voluntary recognition. And then says this.
Weird. IndyStar journalists have been unionized since 1933. The only things hurting our ability to serve our community are relentless layoffs and corporate greed.
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A lobbyist who said he represented a coalition of downtown residents and property owners was paid for by a Virginia organization with dark money roots.
The latest in the fight over Mile Square’s economic enhancement district:
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Since we published our most recent nursing home story for
@indystar
, I've gotten a lot of messages that tell me that, for some readers, this is the first of our nursing home coverage they've seen. So I wanted to do a recap of everything we've revealed this year. 🧵
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After a trip to Texas, I wanted to take a rapid test.
Stopped at a CVS on the way to the airport. Sold out.
Back in Chicago, at my local Walgreens. Sold out.
Online vendors. Sold out.
Here’s the story behind that all too common experience:
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My colleagues and I are taking a coordinated 15 minute break to reflect on the fact that, during the most intense global crisis, Gannett is taking a quarter of the newsroom offline for the next three months.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Part of Montana’s Far-Reaching Anti-Vax Law
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To put this in perspective, I:
-started negotiating this contract
-left the company 10 months later
-completed a two-year fellowship
-took some time off
-got a new job
before this contract was settled. Those who stuck with it worked long and hard. Bravo and congrats!
Didn't even have a spare second yesterday to take this in.
@indynewsguild
has a contract, after 3.3 years.
It helps our underpaid young folks the most, and I think that's something to be proud of.
Love all my colleagues, past and present, for sticking together through it all. ✊
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It’s cool that
@mirrorindy
has a small team, and yet we have multiple reporters at the statehouse covering bills through an Indianapolis-centric lens.
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.
@Gannett
has slashed our benefits over the past year. We've had no help for WFH costs. We've lost our 401K match. We're losing our staff cars. I was furloughed for a month. Now Gannett wants to take our sick days during a global pandemic. Shameless.
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The Gannett/Gatehouse merger is great news for local journalism.
You've been kidnapped. Your kidnappers allow you to keep tweeting to pretend everything is alright. What would you tweet that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?
"And then I put in the exact amount of garlic the recipe called for."
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Thinking about how the money invested in Quibi could have paid down Gannett’s entire high interest loan and how much our 260+ communities would be better off for that, but instead we got a series about a woman who loves and dies for her golden arm.
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That debt belonged to thousands of Detroit residents: In that 2017 sale, DTE sold the debt of nearly 300,000 residential customers & 14,000 commercial accounts. Thousands of those people end up in court, often defenseless against a legally savvy debt collection firm.
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babe wake up new community-centered media just dropped
Today is the day: Mirror Indy’s website is live! We’ve designed it to be easy to use and to reflect Indy’s vibrant spirit. We are here, after all, to mirror Indy.
Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed:
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DTE, Michigan's largest utility, will have to publicly disclose information about its debt sales, a practice originally uncovered by me and Sarah Alvarez of
@media_outlier
.
Regulators called the sales "hardship-inducing."
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This tweet directly contradicts what was broadcast on television.
Without journalists, institutions will write the narrative that is most convenient for them.
In the course of clearing the streets and restoring order at Lake Street and Snelling Avenue, four people were arrested by State Patrol troopers, including three members of a CNN crew. The three were released once they were confirmed to be members of the media.
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Politwoops is an awesome tool for government accountability. Or it was. What gives?
It looks like with recent Twitter API changes,
@propublica
can't track deleted tweets from politicians anymore w/ Politwoops (). Is there anyone we can talk to about this?
@elonmusk
?
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POV: You didn’t know you still owed $1,500 to a billion dollar utility until a debt collector sued you (during a pandemic) and started garnishing 25% of your paycheck.
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“You either want to do the right thing or you don’t.”
Some of the U.S.’s most lauded archeological and cultural institutions are responsible for the failure under federal law to expeditiously return Native American remains to tribes.
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Meet the Wild West of pregnancy screenings. Nearly half of pregnant women use these tests, yet they're not regulated by the FDA. An inaccurate result can be heartbreaking for parents.
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NEW from
@propublica
and
@js_kaplan
:
“The new details show that the governor’s office appears to have misled the public and the state legislature and may also have violated Florida law.”
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Black homeowner had a white friend stand in for third appraisal. Her home value doubled. via
@indystar
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In August, a powerful lobbyist attacked my data analysis and demanded a retraction of our story. My editor vehemently defended me.
Now the company is attempting to discredit its own journalists without providing any proof that we got it wrong. Deja vu.
A NewsGuild pay equity study of 14 unionized Gannett newsrooms found gender and racial pay gaps of thousands of dollars.
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Last night we surveyed
@indynewsguild
members about volunteering for furloughs to ease some of the pressure
@gannett
is putting on producers in the 3rd quarter.
I'm reading the responses from those affected and those willing to volunteer. I work with some damn fine people.
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Rep. Tlaib is part of a trio of federal lawmakers pushing for accountability and consumer protections from utilities. Their resolution follows investigations into DTE shutoffs and debt sales by
@media_outlier
and
@propublica
👇
“You know what’s outrageous,"
@RepRashida
said during a recent public hearing of the Michigan Public Service Commission.
"In 2020, during the worst of the pandemic, DTE shut off power to customers more than 80,000 times.”
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i’m back at work today and catching up. important note: allow your mental health to recover the same way that you would if you were physically ill. i felt super guilty stepping away last week but am coming back much stronger and better prepared to serve my community.
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I’ll add that it’s extremely disturbing (yet predictable) that, barely hours after
#NewGannett
was minted, Mike Reed would disparage the thousands of journalists the company stakes its reputation on. WE are the Guild.
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“We’re Going to Be Conservative.” Official Orders Books Removed From Schools, Targeting Titles About Transgender People.
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