Travis Long: follow @vizjourno on Bluesky
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Photojournalist @newsobserver, chicken keeper, bicycle commuter, vegetarian, Part 107 pilot, community college, part-time farmer, Indigenous, ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᏕᏣᏓᏂᎸᎩ
Raleigh, NC
Joined August 2010
Thousands lined Capital Boulevard for the first of 2 "No Kings" rallies scheduled Saturday in Raleigh to protest the Trump administration. https://t.co/IVmUy92zHu 📷@vizjourno
#NoKingsDay
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Mothballing this account. Follow @vizjourno.bsky.social 👋
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Good points here on why journalists/news orgs are shifting resources to other avenues to distribute content -- has nothing to do with whether the user base leans left or right, everything to do with whether it's an effective tool to distribute news/attract an audience to our work
What many news orgs and journalists are coming to realize with X/Twitter is this: the juice is no longer worth the squeeze. This platform has never been a great driver of traffic. It’s a place where folks gathered and shared information/opinions during major news events.
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Weird election night in North Carolina. Trump won, as did Republican judges. But at the same time Democrats won every major executive branch race (governor, AG, superintendent of schools), the only competitive US House race, and even broke the GOP supermajority in the legislature
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I just finished my radio debut on WUNC’s Due South with host @j_tibs and was joined by fellow journalists and friends @_lucillesherman, @RaleighReporter, and @dani__battaglia as we discussed Helene recovery and the current landscape of North Carolina politics. #ncpol #helene2024
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Karen Bruggemann of Candler, North Carolina, told me this morning she isn’t missing. But many believe she is. A communal list for concerned friends and relatives in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene has become fodder for social media misinformation. https://t.co/0fjaeHORDU
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A communal list for concerned friends and relatives in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene has become fodder for social media misinformation.
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“This is the most egregious misuse of my photos I have ever encountered,” said Lynn Hey, a professional photojournalist for more than 30 years. #ncpol
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The apparent copyright infringement is “the most egregious” in a photographer’s lengthy career. Robinson's campaign site also used images from longtime News & Observer photographer Robert Willett.
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At Waffle House after press preset shaking off an existential hangover from last night . 🇺🇸🧇 ☕️
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The group has been protesting since noon. State Capitol police and an inmate transfer van are on scene. Demonstrators are refusing unblock the NC DHHS building exterior doors.
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Disabled people with National ADAPT have blocked all the exterior doors of the NC DHHS building in Raleigh. They are chanting, “I’d rather go to jail than die in a nursing home,” while demanding improved services and support to speak with NCHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley.
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Congratulations to the dedicated and prolific @nckhui on his 25th anniversary @newsobserver covering @WCPSS 🎉🥳🍰
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With tensions over pro-Palestinian protests escalating on college campuses across the United States, CPJ calls on university authorities and law enforcement agencies to allow reporters to freely cover the demonstrations. #StudentProtests #Israel #Gaza
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashed with police after replacing an American flag with a Palestinian flag at UNC-Chapel Hill. Police removed a “Gaza solidarity encampment” Tuesday morning. Interim chancellor Lee Roberts personally replaced the flag under police protection
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That's some kind of Wolfpack magic that can bring this many people to a Raleigh Applebee's on a Tuesday night. Our @vizjourno was there. Story linked below.
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Not every frenzied fan got inside as Burns and Horne spent more than an hour posing for pictures. But our photographer did.
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Never in million years did I think I would ever need a drone to photograph a line outside an Applebee’s, but here I am… NC State fans are in a full-on fever dream as both @PackMensBball and @PackWomensBball head to the #FinalFour #WhtNotUs
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