Kathy Best
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Director of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland. Lover of great writing, data and all storytelling forms. check!
College Park, MD
Joined April 2008
Thanks to @AP for helping our latest @HowardCenterUMD project reach a national audience: Many towns are unprepared to handle train derailments and hazmat spills
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Train derailments involving spills of 1,000 gallons or more of hazardous materials happen a few times a year, often resulting in evacuations or fires.
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Are you a journalist who wants to train the next generation of investigative reporters? Then the University of Maryland has a great job for you:
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On the second anniversary of the disastrous East Palestine train derailment, the city and its residents don’t know what hazmats are moving through town. We do.
npr.org
Two years after derailment, toxic chemicals still roll through East Palestine.
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So excited to see this collaboration between @HowardCenterUMD and @politico out in the world. The research by our team was unprecedented and revealing.
Members of Congress have taken hundreds of AIPAC-funded trips to Israel in the past decade
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I know many great journalists at both @latimes and @washingtonpost. Please don’t take your views on their owners out on them. Their journalism is essential today and in the future.
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Every time I think this campaign can’t go any lower… From @nytimes: An ad from Elon Musk’s PAC refers to Ms. Harris as a “C Word” — eventually calling her a “communist” — in an allusion to an insult against women that is one of the most obscene words in American English.
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At least they didn’t mention the Marlboro Man!
I might have my new favorite "national political outlet touches down in Montana" correction.
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A series of deaths and the 'Big Fight': Uncovering police force in one Midwestern city | @rjfoley @jseewerap dive deeply into the Evansville (Indiana) PD in another must-read from our Lethal Restraint investigation.
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Police leaders called the training “routine” when one recruit died and another was badly injured at their academy.
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Facts matter, esp during the chaos of a natural disaster. Here is a link to factual information on what FEMA does and does not offer to counteract some of the crap you’re reading (especially here):
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Our @HowardCenterUMD partnered with @politico to publish this important story on the role of lobbyists in congressional travel by U.S. House members. More to come! https://t.co/3WVZ16ciwb
politico.com
Leading the way is the nonprofit Congressional Institute, which is run by veteran Republican staffers and funded by $3 million in annual dues from private interest groups.
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The latest collaboration between the @HowardCenterUMD and Boston University went live today: When House members travel the globe on private dime, families often go too (from @AP)
apnews.com
The spouses, children and siblings of U.S. House members are traveling around the world on trips paid for by special interest groups.
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Here is the full url to the story:
politico.com
Leading the way is the nonprofit Congressional Institute, which is run by veteran Republican staffers and funded by $3 million in annual dues from private interest groups.
Thanks @politico for partnering with the @HowardCenterUMD to get this important story on the role of lobbyists in congressional travel by US House members into the world.
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Thanks @politico for partnering with the @HowardCenterUMD to get this important story on the role of lobbyists in congressional travel by US House members into the world.
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Check out this @fox5dc segment with #merrillmade students Leila Cox (@lcoxnews) and @jamesmatheson__, who discuss the amazing experience of covering this week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago with our @cnsmd! #fearlessjournalism #DNC2024
https://t.co/IYz8sN18tk
fox5dc.com
University of Maryland students joined Fox 5 DC to recap their week thus far at the Democratic National Convention.
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Our students are killing it! Check out the walk-off line ;) Democratic Convention Notebook: Raskin's mustard, Colbert in town, Demobrats https://t.co/4mZhG9H8S1 via @CNSmd
cnsmaryland.org
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, made sure Maryland delegates could savor the flavor of the Democratic National Convention well after they leave Chicago.
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Tennessee family's lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son (from @AP)
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A Tennessee mother whose son was having a seizure in his apartment says in a new lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected him to “inhumane acts of violence.”
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I’m thrilled for our students, who did amazing work on this project and grateful to @AP for inviting us to join the team.
Congratulations to the team behind "Lethal Restraint" — our @HowardCenterUMD, @AP, @HowardCenterASU & @frontlinepbs — for being named finalists for two Online Journalism Awards (in collaboration and visual digital storytelling)! READ THE PROJECT:
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As @bykenarmstrong says, the Times is the kind of newsroom that encourages you to produce journalism that matters. Don’t miss these opportunities!
The @seattletimes has some cool job openings right now, in a great newsroom in a beautiful place. https://t.co/QeuZdR2F1D
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