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California politics @politico ; formerly @journalsentinel , @captimes . Cheesehead & proud alum @dailycardinal , @uwmadison . “Grammar is a piano I play by ear"

Madison, WI
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Today was supposed to be my last day in Sacramento before moving out... but I'm excited to share I'm staying on this fall to continue reporting for @politico ! Thank you to the California team for extending my time; I'm excited to cover more Golden State politics.
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I need everyone visiting Milwaukee for the RNC this week to experience the Brady Street Walgreens
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Update: the man in the red flannel in the photo below appears to be Christopher Pohlhaus, a former U.S. Marine turned Blood Tribe leader, based on matching facial tattoos.
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UW pof Dr. Sami Schalk arrested. Schalk is walking calmly, in ziptie cuffs, with police.
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Breaking: UW-Madison’s Alumni Park vandalized with messages supporting the trans community just hours before conservative commentator Matt Walsh is scheduled to appear at UW. More to come from @dailycardinal .
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Quick note here: the professor asked police to leave students alone
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I can't speak for other campuses. But UW-Madison's protests, while unlawful, have been peaceful, except for when police showed up in riot gear.
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Biden, a few moments ago: “Destroying property is not peaceful protest. It's against the law. “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes & graduations …none of this is peaceful protest.”
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Good afternoon from the Mifflin Street Block Party, where a car has been overturned
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Other arrests here at UW:
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Police taking down tents now, things getting physical @UWMadison
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Happening now: Hundreds @UWMadison students are gathered in Bascom Hall, outside @uwchancellor ’s office, for a silent protest in response to a racist video circulating social media.
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Hundreds of UW-Madison students and community members are marching on campus for a second day to protest @UWMadison ’s handling of a racist video circulating online. Students say the university needs to do more to protect Black students, who make up less than 3% of unergraduates.
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A group of roughly two dozen people waving swastika flags is gathered outside the Wisconsin Capitol in downtown Madison this Saturday afternoon.
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The Daily Cardinal asked a UW System spokesperson for an interview for this story multiple times. They declined. I firmly stand behind our reporting, which included a full copy of the email from Rothman. You can read it here:
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I am a product of the liberal arts, and I am deeply disappointed by the mischaracterization of my communication with chancellors by the @DailyCardinal , both in its egregiously false headline and the framing of its story. 2/
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NEW: @GovEvers will veto Wisconsin budget if Republicans advance $32 million cut to UW System. Such a cut would be "a ridiculous effort" on Vos' part, he told reporters during a stop at a cheese plant outside of Monroe. By me for @journalsentinel :
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Here's the video from when police breached the human chain guarding tents:
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New: Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on Wed's clashes in Madison: "I think what happened on Wednesday morning was basically what we would have expected ... to the extent that there was clashes, it was instigated by the protesters." THE IVIEW SUN ON UPFRONT...
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The air quality is so bad they put it in Vikings colors
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A few facts to keep in mind regarding today's pro-Palestine protest and developing encampment at @UWMadison : 🧵⬇️
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Some personal news: I'm leaving Wisconsin this month for an exciting opportunity to cover California state politics as an intern with @politico . I'm grateful to join a publication I've long admired in Sacramento starting next week.
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Statement from @WisconsinUnion Council Executive Committee today: "Memorial Union was used as the location to process demonstrators who were arrested... this purpose was antithetical to the Union's mission."
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Arrested protesters are being taken by police to an unmarked door on the Park Street side of Memorial Union, near the Observatory Drive intersection.
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More pushing, arrests here at UW-Madison:
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Highlighting this from a previous update: Here is a video of an interaction preceding the professor's arrest via @SpectrumNews1WI , which shows Alatout pushing against police shields.
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Things Madison-area police officers have been spotted with tonight at the Fluno Center as a pro-Palestine demonstation continues at Library Mall: - Ziptie cuffs - Panera Bread takeout - Pepper spray - Chick-Fil-A takeout - Batons - Gatorade - What appear to be gas masks
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Here's why you should never underestimate student journalists -- especially the @dailycardinal : 🧵
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Some personal news: I'll be joining @journalsentinel this summer as a Sharon Stark intern reporting from the Wisconsin State Capitol! I'm excited to sharpen my political and investigative reporting skills with an award-winning, statewide paper like the Journal Sentinel.
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Video of this morning's police presence on Library Mall, warning protesters to disperse their encampment.
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Here are the two unmasked marchers:
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Just asked police at the Fluno Center if press could get a media conference given today's overall lacking communication from police. Police responded with a laugh.
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BREAKING: Police breach camp @UWMadison
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Vehicles with officers in them on the move at UW-Madison... some have pulled into an underground loading dock at Memorial Union
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All 15 impeachment articles against Wolfe contain false or misleading info about her role and the 2020 election. Read my report here: (via @journalsentinel )
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NEW: Senate President Chris Kapenga is urging Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to move forward impeachment articles against Wisconsin Elections Commission Meagan Wolfe.
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2. Calling the protesters "pro-Hamas" is misleading. Protesters so far have opposed the war in Gaza and harshly condemned Israel. But calling the protest "pro-Hamas" on the whole, as some conservative onlookers have, is not accurate.
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As a Midwesterner, I'd much rather watch a tornado from my front porch than deal with this
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"The average monthly rent near campus is $1,273 per bed"
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#UWMadison officials say they’ll use a new analysis of the Madison housing market commissioned by the city and university to guide future policy decisions and better help students find the housing that best suits their needs and budgets.
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Today is my first day as an intern with @politico in California! Feel free to send tips or connect with me at tkatzenberger @politico .com
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In a stunning turn of events, the UW Board of Regents narrowly rejected a deal between UW leaders and Republicans that would have made compromises on DEI, freed up pay raises and funded a new UW-Madison engineering building. Story TK from @dailycardinal
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Here is Pohlhaus in a photo on the ADL website:
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What you get for Christmas when your family knows you’re a WI politics junkie:
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The Juneteenth flag is officialy flying over Wisconsin’s State Capitol
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First time seeing my byline in @journalsentinel print 🥹
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Hello from Portage, where the boyfriend and I pulled over to catch the Northern Lights
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My parents surprised me with a very newsworthy birthday cake (are scribbles AP style?)
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Yesterday was my last day with The Daily Cardinal after a year leading the paper with @DWhiteBergey and 4 years on staff. I joined on a whim, I stayed because @hopekarnopp was an amazing editor, and I had the time of my life. Thank you @dailycardinal . Fly high, dirty birds ❤️
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UW-Madison waived $4.2k in security fees for Young Americans for Freedom after a conservative law firm threatened to sue. But UW has charged other campus orgs for security. Why did YAF get a pass? From @gabihartlaub + @noegoldhaber via @dailycardinal :
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The issues being protested are ones of university investment, among others. In fact, student journalist Ty Javier wrote an explainer about protesters' divestment asks, which you can read here via @dailycardinal .
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"That's just ludicrous." Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on the protesters' list of demands including 'get cops off campus' : "The issues that they are protesting are ones of foreign policy, not of university investment. So, I just view that as a red herring."
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Some personal news: It's my first full week back at @journalsentinel , this time as a @GoogleNewsInit + @Poynter Student Misinformation Fellow! I'll be doing plenty of fact-checking, so tips are welcome at tkatzenberger @gannett .com or via DM.
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The group is wearing shirts with the name "Blood Tribe," a neo-nazi group with hardline white supremacist views. There has already been an n-word lobbed at a Black person.
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Today's UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment break-up is currently front page news on @washingtonpost 's digital site.
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4. UW-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine, a leading group behind the protest, has posted six demands to its Instagram. Here's a screenshot:
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Here's the workspace the White House gave student reporters at a Kamala Harris event in Wisconsin this morning:
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Thank you for speaking with student reporters! And yes, I stayed up late Sunday night using a sharpie and a paper stencil to make hi-vis press vests for @dailycardinal staff. Sometimes journalism requires a little arts and crafts.
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I've been speaking with campus reporters - what a crash course they're all getting. Working non stop (during finals!!), making makeshift press vests, dealing with police, violence, and getting national attention.
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I'm beyond excited to share @dailycardinal was named a national finalist for the SPJ's best all-around student newspaper award. Thank you to @spj_tweets for this honor and to @DWhiteBergey , our fearless EIC who co-led the paper with me this year.
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A Bucky statue near the Memorial Union Terrrace was also vandalized:
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Meanwhile, we're having a relaxing time over at the @dailycardinal a week before finals:
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Pour one out tonight for the journalists at the Daily Pennsylvanian ( @dailypenn ) student paper whose final exams start next week.
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Today is my first day at the @journalsentinel Capitol bureau! Very excited to work with @MollyBeck , @jessieopie and @SchulteLaura as well as the wonderful @hopekarnopp in my new role as a Sharon Stark investigative intern covering state politics.
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NEW for @politico : AI initiatives would get $40M annually in a draft California journalism bill agreement shared with POLITICO. The draft would see California and Google form a partnership funding “democracy, journalism and AI innovation.”
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Some context here: these are people gathered on Library Mall today to watch the solar eclipse. @dailycardinal had reporters on scene this afternoon.
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Tents are popping up at a pro-Palestine protest on Library Mall at @UWMadison . Camping is not allowed anywhere on campus, and the Chancellor has said she will not make an exception despite having the ability to do so. Background from @dailycardinal :
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Some more of the graffiti:
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This is what appears to be a video of police at UW-Madison shoving Prof. Sami Schalk and Prof. Samer Alatout to the ground. The profs in this video appear to be part of a human chain. It's a new angle and an earlier shot than a past video I'll link below. Let's add context. 🧵
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HAPPENING @UWMadison RIGHT NOW!! COME NOW!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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The openly neo-nazi group is now marching around the Wisconsin Capitol chanting "Israel is not our friend"
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What Rep. Van Orden shared below is not accurate. The individual did a raised-hand Nazi salute but didn't chant "Heil Hitler," and they were not part of the encampment protest group. Fact-check from @rachelleighhale via @WisconsinWatch :
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Except for when they did. Stop covering for Nazi’s.
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To those framing yesterday's events as a "clash" or a "skirmish" between protesters and police, or to anyone covering student protests against the war in Gaza nationwide, please give this @UWJournEthics piece a read. It's essential.
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Two tents are up despite police leaving the pro-Palestine encampment at UW-Madison. UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott told reporters: "We're working on that. I'm not sure what our plan is... but we were able to remove, obviously, the vast majority of the tenting equipment."
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The high schooler who just walked by the Capitol Press Room and asked "what they pressin in there?" is going places
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Something I spotted a day late: In this video from UW-Madison's police crackdown on a pro-Palestine encampment, you can see police shove a person after they appear to shove police. When police shove them to the ground, they land inches from hitting their head on a cinder block.
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1. Protests so far are peaceful, as most anti-war protests have been at UW-Madison this year. There are just over a half-dozen UWPD officers on scene, who for now have not arrested any protesters but have diverted a few disruptors.
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To @hopekarnopp , @MollyBeck , @jessieopie , @SchulteLaura , @lawrencegandrea and everyone else at the @journalsentinel : Thank you for an unforgettable summer with the Capitol Bureau.
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This is just a sliver of what we do at The Daily Cardinal. We might be young, but we're committed to reporting high-quality news for our @UWMadison campus community.
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I had the pleasure of reporting on (and shaking the hand of) @POTUS this afternoon in DeForest. Thank you to my co-workers at @dailycardinal and all the political reporters who were kind to me during this hectic day (s/o @MollyBeck and @jessieopie !)
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Clarification: "Detained" is a likely a more appropriate word here, for now
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UW pof Dr. Sami Schalk arrested. Schalk is walking calmly, in ziptie cuffs, with police.
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5. The encampment is expected to persist into the evening and has established a set of rules, which were posted to SJP's Instagram page. See the rules here:
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Good student journalism comes from all over the UW System. Here are 5 articles you might have missed this fall from student papers at UW campuses beyond Madison. 🧵⬇️
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WI Democratic Party Chair @benwikler reminds the crowd how close Wisconsin’s elections are. He’s asking Milwaukee voters to bring the same energy from Obama’s 2008 and 2012 elections to this November’s midterms.
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I'm exceptionally proud of the work our @dailycardinal student journalists produced in 2023. Here are 10 must-reads from this past year, picked by our desk editors.
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I’m incredibly excited to announce @DWhiteBergey and I will be the 2023-24 management team for @dailycardinal ! Thanks to @sophiasvento and a special thanks to my predecessor @JessicaSonkin for believing in some crazy kids from Marshfield. Let’s run this show.
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. @uwchancellor Jennifer Mnookin was supposed to meet with student media at 11 a.m. today. She canceled for the second time in two weeks, this time following a proposed deal with Republicans that faculty, staff and students criticized as non-transparent. This was her reason:
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This is a video of Samer Alatout, a UW prof detained by police at today's protest, pushing against police shields. Some disclaimers: The video cuts before Samer is detained, and the original poster has not identified who filmed it.
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Also of note: UW System has not reached out about the article since it was published Wednesday morning. They have not requested a correction.
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You might not have noticed, but there's a renaissance happening on Regent Street in Madison. I spoke with local leaders and explored the neighborhood's rich cultural history in my cover story for @CapTimes
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In 2022, I visited Milwaukee to cover Barack Obama for @dailycardinal , my first time seeing a U.S. president. Yesterday, I drove the Cardinal's @AvaMenkes , @annakleiber03 and @francesca__pica to Milwaukee to cover @POTUS . I'm very proud of them! And yes, we got ice cream.
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Good evening from Janet Protasiewicz’s watch party in Milwaukee, where I’m covering tonight’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race for @dailycardinal . Follow this thread for live updates as events unfold ⬇️
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Prepping for my first Madison City Council meeting tonight:
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Proud to announce (with accurate spelling this time) my first byline with @CapTimes ! There will be much more to come this summer as I continue growing in journalism.
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Things @hopekarnopp did for this story: - Drove almost 9 hours round trip (and outran bad storms for 2 of those) - Understood the shared revenue formula (and explained it to me, too) - Spent hours picking at the details of this story (because she cares a ton about these folks)
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Molly Beck
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What will Popple River, Wisconsin's second-smallest town, do with a 5,000% increase in state funding? via ⁦ @hopekarnopp
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The Daily Cardinal on Tuesday was named finalist for 23 collegiate Milwaukee Press Club awards, including a sweep of the print investigative and photo essay categories. Read more here via @dailycardinal :
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📍 Madison, WI
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Found my very first state legislature press credential while packing for my move to Sacramento (stay tuned for a new job announcement!)
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Adding "Home of Oscar winners" to our Daily Cardinal recruitment materials immediately ✍️
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On Wisconsin magazine
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We salute @UWMadison alum @RaneyAronson -Rath, now an Oscar-winner for her role in producing the documentary @20DaysMariupol . While majoring in South Asian studies and history at the UW, she discovered her career path in journalism at The @DailyCardinal .
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Good afternoon from the DeForest Kwik Trip, where my friend Ally is taking over driving for me after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered new legislative maps in the state ahead of the 2024 election.
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Found in @GovEvers ' budget: $2 million for UW System student journalism programs. The funding would provide $1 million each in FY24 and FY25 for journalism students, fellowships and graduates from UW institutions.
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After previously saying they wouldn't talk until tents come down, @UWMadison admin has agreed to talk with pro-Palestine protesters as about two dozen tents are still up at the encampment. More from @dailycardinal :
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Tyler Katzenberger
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So proud of our Cardinal staff! An award like this is gratifying after staying up until 4 a.m. on election night (and taking on countless other endeavors in the name of student journalism). Dirty birds forever ❤️
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The Daily Cardinal
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The Daily Cardinal won 20 awards, including 1st place in the General Excellence category, in the 2022 WNA Collegiate Better Newspaper Contest on Friday.
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